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Garmin Earnings Boosted By Smartwatch Popularity
Garmin Earnings Boosted By Smartwatch Popularity
February 21, 2019  |  Earnings

With the demand for watches by outdoor adventurers bolstering earnings, Garmin’s stock reached its highest point in 11 years, rising 17 percent. The company’s revenue...

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Senders As Issuers: A New Space For Cards In Global P2P
Senders As Issuers: A New Space For Cards In Global P2P
February 06, 2019  |  Digital Payments

When InstaReM CEO and Co-founder Prajit Nanu started putting together a global remittance firm for consumers and businesses in 2014, he had been struggling with...

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Payday Loans, Pawnshops And Borrowed Credit Cards: How Many Americans Got By In 2018
Payday Loans, Pawnshops And Borrowed Credit Cards: How Many Americans Got By In 2018
February 04, 2019  |  Consumer Finance

When it comes to managing personal finances, consumers are seemingly taking one step forward and three steps back. For one thing, the portion of consumers...

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Patisserie Valerie Saga Finds Fake Invoices
Patisserie Valerie Saga Finds Fake Invoices
February 01, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Ongoing investigations into the £40 million (nearly $52.4 million USD) fraud that felled Patisserie Valerie have found that fake invoices were involved. Elsewhere in the...

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Mastercard Q4 Continues Contactless, B2B Growth ‘Marathon’
Mastercard Q4 Continues Contactless, B2B Growth ‘Marathon’
February 01, 2019  |  Earnings

Mastercard results released on Thursday (Jan. 31) morning showed continued gains in processed transactions, tied in part to holiday spending during the quarter that ended...

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Venmo And Zelle’s P2P Battle Royale
Venmo And Zelle’s P2P Battle Royale
February 01, 2019  |  Digital Payments

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle, the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market...

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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost
Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost
January 24, 2019  |  Payment Methods

Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method in the U.K.,...

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Visa: Why Target’s Tap-And-Pay Leap Will Ignite Contactless Cards
Visa: Why Target’s Tap-And-Pay Leap Will Ignite Contactless Cards
January 23, 2019  |  Retail

After many years as a holdout in the world of near-field communication (NFC) payments, Target grabbed a lot of headlines yesterday (Jan. 22) with its announcement that it...

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What Do Antilock Brakes And Instant Payments Have In Common?
What Do Antilock Brakes And Instant Payments Have In Common?
January 21, 2019  |  Faster Payments

“Can we all just agree that real-time access to money isn’t going to be an option anymore?” said Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards. That’s how Friday’s...

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