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4.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVietnam’s mPOS And Vimo To Combine Into NextPay
Two Hanoi-based FinTech startups, Vimo Technology and mPOS Technology, are merging to create NextPay Holdings, according to reports. The CEO of mPOS...
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1.8KRetailRacing Amazon Go To The Cashierless Finish Line
Though San Francisco startup Zippin has gotten lots of press for being the first cashierless convenience store to compete directly with Amazon Go, Zippin CEO...
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1.6KDigital PaymentsLINE Pay, Visa Partner For Digital Payment Offerings
LINE Pay, the operator of digital wallet and FinTech services on the LINE messaging app, announced on Thursday (June 6) that it...
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2.3KCashIs Sweden Proof There Is Such A Thing As Too Much Digital Payment Success?
Usually when we’re telling a story at PYMNTS about expectations for a product being radically divergent from its actual performance, it is...
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2.7KPayment MethodsSquare: Most SMBs Will Always Accept Cash
Rumors of the death of cash – as in complete extinction – are greatly exaggerated. Even as digital payments gain ground, cash still...
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8.5KGlobal PaymentsParis Metro To Launch Paperless Tickets, Cashless Payments Rise In Russia
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the coming rollout of a paperless...
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5.8KPayment MethodsPolicymakers Introduce Bills To Ban Cashless Stores In US
In moves that could put a stop to cashless stores, two legislators brought bills forth in Congress to make business accept cash...
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2.2KRetailSmart Vending Machines Are Going Cashless
As San Francisco recently became the latest city to outlaw cashless businesses, the future of smart vending and unattended retail may seem...
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379Walmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Whole Paycheck Tracker: Enriching Experiences For Sellers And Managers
While both Amazon and Walmart tout an obsession with consumer experiences, this week the race for the customer’s whole paycheck saw the...
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1.9KRetailShake Shack Shares Soar On The Wings Of Mobile
Shake Shack shares rose as much as 9.7 percent in late trading after the burger chain reported sales that beat estimates. Bloomberg reported...
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1.2KRetailSainsbury’s Creates Cashierless Store
To help consumers scan and pay for their selections, U.K. supermarket company Sainsbury’s has opened a checkout-free store in Holborn Circus, London, where shoppers use...
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2.5KRetailSweetgreen Reverses Cashless Approach
Amid the backlash to cashless stores around the country, Sweetgreen plans to start taking legal tender. Critics contend that cashless stores impact...
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5.6KRetailAmazon Go Stores No Longer Cashless
Cashless retail, to a point, and then cashless and cash, too. Reports came Wednesday (April 10) across a variety of financial news...
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4.8KPayment MethodsAtlanta Stadium’s Cashless Move Shows Little Demand For Cash
The move toward cashless has set in motion any number of initiatives, spanning any number of businesses where consumers shop, from retail...
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3.9KAmazonAmazon Accepting Cash Payments At Oxxo Stores
Amazon will now accept cash payments at Mexico’s most popular chain corner store, Oxxo, the companies announced on Monday (April 1). Reuters...
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6.5KEcosystemsAlabama Debuts Smart Utility Payments Program
It started, arguably, with mass transit, though with many bumps along the way, as the problems are slowly being solved while still...
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6.8KFintech InvestmentsLine To Expand Into Payments, FinTech To Avoid Complacency
Line, the Asian messaging company majority owned by Naver, the South Korean Internet search company, is expanding its business into payments and...
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3.5KGlobal PaymentsMercari Teams With Line For Payments; Telco M1 Connects With DISA For eWallet Protection
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the tie-up between Mercari and Line for...
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3.8KGlobal PaymentsFamilyMart Unveils Cashless App; Victoria Taps Into Mobile Transit Payments
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the acceptance of smartphone payments for transportation...
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5.7KMastercardMastercard Pushes Cashless Solutions For Transit Payments
Mastercard plans to bring cashless transit solutions to more than 20 U.S. cities in the next few years, the company said on...
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6.0KLegalSan Fran Mulls Cashless Store Ban — Including Amazon Go
San Francisco is considering following in the footsteps of New Jersey and Philadelphia and banning cashless stores, including Amazon Go, according to...
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4.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFirst Data Buys German Cashless Tech Co ayCash
First Data, a commerce-enabling FinTech company, has acquired ayCash, a company that specializes in cashless payment terminals and merchant services in the...
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2.5KData DiveData Dive, Forward Backward Edition: The Cashless Tango And Amazon’s Opposite Moves
While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit...
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6.7KRegulationPhiladelphia Bans Cashless Stores
Lawmakers in Philadelphia have passed a ban on cashless stores, making it the first major city in the U.S. to do so,...
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7.9KPayments InnovationAtlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium To Go Cashless
To help keep the prices of food and drinks low, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta is about to become cashless. Only credit...
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ATM Association Weighs In On Cashless Retail Ban
Much has been made of the coming of the cashless society. Amazon, of course, stands out as a marquee name in the...
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5.9KCashRetailers In Some States May Be Forced To Accept Cash
With a move toward cashless societies growing around the world, new legislation in the U.S. could force retailers and restaurants in a...
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8.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVisa, NFL To Collaborate On First Cashless Super Bowl
Visa and the National Football League (NFL), partners since 1995, will extend their collaboration through 2025 and work together to make a...
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4.2KRegulationRegulations Hinder Growth Of Digital Payments In Vietnam
Vietnam wants to be a cashless society, according to a report in Financial Times, but bank regulations are hindering the country’s ability...
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2.8KCashReport: Cashless UK Would Leave Consumers Behind
As the U.K. moves to a more cashless society, the country’s Access to Cash Review report cautioned that groups of people will...
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4.4KAmazon TechnologyAmazon Go ‘Mini’ Opens In Seattle
Amazon has opened a smaller version of its cashier-free Amazon Go food stores in one of its Seattle offices, according to a...
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2.6KData DiveData Dive, Trying New Things Edition: Walmart, Amazon And EU Card Fees
Poet William Cowper famously wrote in his 1787 poem “The Task” that “variety is the spice of life.” And while change-resistant humans are...
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12.1KPayment MethodsDecoupled Debit — Again?
The year is 2007. Headlines are filled with news of a “revolutionary” product that will change the fortunes of merchants and unlock...
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5.7KPayments InnovationAre QR Codes The Salvation Army’s Digital Salvation?
Pull any list of “top 10 Christmas carols” from the web, and it will quickly become obvious that bells are deeply important to people...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsIndia Developing Digital Supply Chain Portal
India’s Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley announced that the country will launch a national logistics and digital trade platform...
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4.6KNewsFive At Five: Facebook’s AR Push
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes news about new social media...
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3.5KCashCritics: Cashless Restaurants Lack Financial Inclusion
As a growing number of restaurants in Washington D.C. have decided to go cashless, some lawmakers have introduced a bill that would...
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2.4KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Goes Fashionable With Prime
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at today’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a look at the newest feature...
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Shake Shack Founders Stand By Cashless Move
Danny Meyer is defending his restaurant group’s decision to test out cashless transactions, saying they are not looking to exclude prospective guests....
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2.9KNewsFive at Five: Facebook Faces New Scrutiny Over Data
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. First up, there is...
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Shake Shack’s Complex Evolution To Digital
For every innovation that changes the world, many … don’t. The difference between what works and what doesn’t is often measured in...
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3.8KCashMaybe Going Cashless Is Not The Best Bet — Here Are Some Reasons Why
Not so fast with banning cash — that’s one of the messages coming out of the payments and food service world this...
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5.4KAuthenticationThe Cashier-less Grocery Store Experience
Timing is everything, as the saying goes. It’s also the story of a startup named Poly, and its visual identification software, says its CEO,...
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13.6KMobile CommerceBraintree, Eventbrite Make Concerts And Commerce Contextual
Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit...
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6.9KData DriversFor Mobile Payments, The Lure Of Everyday Life
What is the tipping point for mobile payments? It’s not just infrastructure, as our latest Data Drivers details. According to Kristian Gjerding, CEO...
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7.0KUnattended RetailEmbedded Chips Lend a Hand To Unattended Retail
Some unattended retail solutions run skin deep — literally. Tech company Three Square Market recently kicked up a media firestorm by implanting tiny microchips...
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7.8KUnattended RetailNEW REPORT: Three Square Market Puts Its Chip On The Table (And Into Employees)
One of latest unattended retail solutions could someday have customers waving goodbye to old payment methods. And while they’re waving, they’ll also...
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15.3KPayment MethodsVisa And The QR Code Evolution/Revolution
The QR code hasn’t always seemed like a world-changing technology. When it first appeared in the developed world approximately two decades ago...
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Today in Data: Cashless Week in China
Online sales have no doubt pushed today’s society into using less cash than previous generations. As we reported last week, 62 percent...
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8.6KCashAre Contactless Payments Making Cash Obsolete?
Think long and hard about the last time you carried physical cash or a business asked for cash only as a payment....
