Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
The ROI On Being A PayFac? Zero
August 31, 2017

With changes happening all around us every day, the highly adaptive and evolutionary tendencies of technology in the closing years of the 2010s sometimes mean big changes — seismic changes — can happen in a way that is almost kind of quiet. Get the Full...

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Payments Innovation: Beyond The ‘Wow’
August 23, 2017

What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We did, and we posed that question to Marqeta CTO Tony Ford. What he said might surprise you. But what it may lack in...

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FLEETCOR Closes On Its $690M Buy Of Cambridge Global Payments
August 10, 2017

FLEETCOR Technologies, a global provider of commercial payment solutions, announced Wednesday (Aug. 9) that it has closed its acquisition of Cambridge Global Payments, the B2B international payments provider, for approximately $690 million. The deal was announced on May 1. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
August 07, 2017

A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

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Three Square Market To Implant RFID Chips In Employees
July 25, 2017

Three Square Market (32M) announced news on Monday (July 24) that it is offering the ability for its employees to be implanted with a RFID chip to make payments and other things. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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How One CEO Sees The Payments Evolution
July 20, 2017

In the last 10 to 20 years, technology has transformed the payments industry. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

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ATM Surcharges a Thing of The Past For Rite Aid
July 11, 2017

Getting cash out of an ATM can sometimes be a pain when people are not near one that’s associated with their bank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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U.S. Consumer Borrowing Posts Biggest Increase In Six Months
July 11, 2017

The American people are feeling more confident about spending, if last month’s consumer borrowing numbers are any indicator. Borrowing patterns tend to correlate directly with spending patterns, which is why they’re watched so closely – and economists like what they’re seeing. Get the Full Story...

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Commuting’s a Drag, But Contactless Can Ease the Misery
July 08, 2017

Summer’s here, and the commute is likely sticky and dreary and just as long, or longer as it ever was.  We waste too much time on the way to salt mines and part of the problem lies in the inefficiencies of buying tickets in the...