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Hudson To Add Amazon’s Just Walk Out Technology To Its Popular Airport Convenience Stores
Friday 15th January - 11:00 amThe Hudson Group plans to add Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology to some of the popular convenience stores the chain operates at more than 1,000 North American airports, train stations ...
Decoding QR Codes: Retailers Embrace Simple, Secure Touchless Payments Option
Friday 15th January - 4:00 amThe use of QR codes is growing more popular in the United States, enabling consumers to instantly access information and easily pay on their smartphones without going through a URL ...
Givingli Taps Blackhawk Network For eGift Technology
Thursday 14th January - 7:59 pmDigital greeting card and gifting company Givingli has chosen Blackhawk Network to provide its app users with digital gift card selections. Givingli is an app that brings together greetings created ...
Adobe: Holiday Online Shopping Topped $188.2 Billion
Tuesday 12th January - 10:20 pmThe 2020 holiday season was rife with online shopping, which hit a record $188.2 billion, or two years’ worth of growth, according to an analysis from Adobe Digital Insights (ADI). That ...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
Tuesday 12th January - 4:03 amIf the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices … then it makes sense to move ...
Cargomatic Taps Geocoding To Avert Last-Mile Delivery Mistakes
Tuesday 12th January - 4:02 amMerchants that wish to avoid lost sales and unhappy customers must have the most up-to-date information for the final steps of delivery. Inaccurate addresses, in particular, can be a huge ...
QR Codes Set To Move From Sideshow To The Main Payments Stage
Thursday 7th January - 4:01 amWhile QR codes have become an extremely prominent part of the payments landscape in the Asia Pacific region in general and in China specifically, in the U.S. they’ve mostly been ...
Personalization Is Key To Loyalty Programs’ Post-Pandemic Future
Wednesday 6th January - 4:00 amThe future of the post-pandemic loyalty program is digital and tailored, giving consumers relevant offers in real time, Mladen Vladic, senior vice president of loyalty solutions at FIS, told PYMNTS ...
New York City Joins Contactless Transit Trend
Monday 4th January - 4:38 pmThe largest bus and subway system in the U.S. is starting the new year with technology designed to speed up the collection of fares while reducing the amount of touching ...
Today In Payments: US Consumers Expect To Return $115 Billion In Unwanted Gifts; Banks May Withhold Stimulus To Cover Overdraft Fees
Monday 4th January - 3:00 pmIn today’s top news, U.S. consumers are expected to return $115 billion in unwanted online orders from this holiday season, some stimulus recipients may see their checks go straight to ...
Today In Digital-First Banking: Banks Ask UK To Raise Cap On Contactless Payments; Bank of Jamaica Drafts Rules For ePayments
Monday 4th January - 2:54 pmIn today’s top news in digital-first banking, the United Kingdom might increase its limit on contactless payments, while The Bank of Jamaica has drafted regulations for the nation’s ePayments sector. ...
Banks Ask UK Treasury To Increase Limit On Contactless Payments
Sunday 3rd January - 11:12 pmThe U.K. might up its amount for contactless payments from £45 to £100 in one of its first actions after officially leaving the European Union (EU), a report from The ...
Deep Dive: Why ML Plays A Key Role In Debit Issuers' Fraud-Fighting Strategies
Thursday 31st December - 7:45 amDebit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms ...
Curbside Pickup Gets The Nod From Santa
Tuesday 29th December - 7:34 pmConsumers, as PYMNTS data has repeatedly shown are hesitant to set foot in stores out of concern of exposing themselves and their loved ones to COVID-19. But people still have to ...
Banking Customers Take The Digital Leap With Cross-Channel Outreach
Monday 28th December - 4:03 amThe pandemic’s end is finally in sight as vaccines are approved and distributed, but the financial industry is not out of the woods yet. More than 20,000 bank branches in ...
MercadoCredito Cracks The Code On Lending To The Un- And Underbanked In Brazil
Monday 28th December - 4:02 amThe digital compression of 2020 has drawn a wide range of speculation. Has it been ten years of change packed into one, as some have speculated? But maybe the most ...
From BNPL to RTP, The Year In Payments Ends On Digital-First Note
Thursday 24th December - 4:02 amIt was a year in which consumers learned about new payment options and adopted them at a dramatic rate. As the year closes, PYMNTS calls out six payment methods that gained ...
BoxFox On Why Order-To-Cash Innovation Is Key For Businesses Expanding Globally
Wednesday 23rd December - 9:45 amSeamless payments are key to cross-border payments, but not when the order-to-cash cycle are still paper-based, says Nick Shaffer, CEO of online B2B marketplace BoxFox. In this month’s Global B2B ...
Piecemeal Order-To-Cash Innovation Won't Cut It For Cross-Border Commerce
Tuesday 22nd December - 4:02 amThe pandemic has forced businesses to pivot quickly to continue their operations — both domestically and internationally — with relative ease as the health crisis affects everything from supply chains ...
PSCU CEO: Debit Still Wins With The Resilient Consumer
Tuesday 22nd December - 4:01 amA year like no other draws to a weary close. In a year marked by unpredictable events, high unemployment, business closures and, of course, a global pandemic, the U.S. consumer is ...
Burger Intelligence: Shake Shack AI Takes Ordering, Customer Experience To The Next Level
Monday 21st December - 4:03 amThe pandemic has upended how we order meals at restaurants, how we pay and, ultimately, how we eat. These transformational shifts are, in turn, affecting how quick-service restaurants (QSRs) engage ...
GM Backs Car Maintenance Service Yoshi With $23 Million
Thursday 17th December - 5:03 pmGeneral Motors (GM) is leading a Series B funding round for $23 million for Yoshi, an on-demand car maintenance service, CNBC reported. This marks the second time GM’s venture capital arm ...
FriendShip Kitchen Rolls Out Curbside Service Using Paytronix Platform
Thursday 17th December - 2:44 pmFriendShip Kitchen, an Ohio-based chain of convenience restaurants, has become the first U.S. retailer to be certified as Safe Shop Assured by implementing contactless pickup using Paytronix’s guest engagement platform. FriendShip ...
Grocers Rush To Reinvent Themselves
Thursday 17th December - 4:01 amAlthough the digital shift brought on by the pandemic has rapidly reshaped the entire retail industry, its impact on the grocery segment in particular has been especially pronounced. In fact, according ...
Goodbye Plastic: Corporate Card Spend Set For Virtual Makeover
Wednesday 16th December - 4:00 amFor all the pain and loss the pandemic has inflicted on the world this year, it’s refreshing to hear something positive associated with COVID-19. Nick Reid, director of B2B Partner Development ...