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Global Mastercard Payment Outages Lead To Consumer Complaints
Global Mastercard Payment Outages Lead To Consumer Complaints
July 13, 2018  |  Mastercard

An outage caused Mastercard customers around the world to be blocked from using their credit cards. It was not clear what caused the outage, which...

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Paidy Raises $55M In Round Of Funding
Paidy Raises $55M In Round Of Funding
July 12, 2018  |  Investments

Paidy, the company that instantly issues post-pay credit accounts linked to mobile phone numbers, announced on Thursday (July 12) that it raised $55 million in a...

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Amex Latest To Ditch The Signature
Amex Latest To Ditch The Signature
December 12, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Payments processor American Express announced Monday (Dec. 11) that it will stop requiring merchants to collect signatures for purchases at the point of sale (POS)....

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Tap To Give To Charity – Yes, It’s A Thyng
Tap To Give To Charity – Yes, It’s A Thyng
August 08, 2017  |  Digital Payments

People don’t write a check to pay for their dinner, movie tickets or groceries, so why are they still writing them for charitable giving? PYMNTS...

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Wirecard Among First To Offer Payment Guarantee For Credit Card Payments
Wirecard Among First To Offer Payment Guarantee For Credit Card Payments
July 25, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Wirecard, the digital payments solutions company, rolled out a mobile payment guarantee for credit card payments.  In a press release announcing the news, it said...

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Biometric Data At Risk In POS Malware Attacks
Biometric Data At Risk In POS Malware Attacks
July 12, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Another day, another fraud attack. But this one is unique because, at least at first, it was believed that consumer biometric data may have been...

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How Payments Makes Online Travel Sites Worth The Trip
How Payments Makes Online Travel Sites Worth The Trip
July 03, 2017  |  Payment Methods

It’s the peak travel season, and online travel sites have a number of pressures to manage: the economy, airline strikes, keeping up with the latest...

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Getting Skinny With It: SMBs And The Cost of Payments
Getting Skinny With It: SMBs And The Cost of Payments
June 20, 2017  |  Data Drivers

Our latest Data Drivers finds Karen Webster chewing the fat with Suneera Madhani, CEO and founder of Fattmerchant. The skinny? How to slim down those processing...

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Brazil Tries To Lower Rate For Card Purchases
Brazil Tries To Lower Rate For Card Purchases
December 20, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Brazil is taking steps under President Michel Temer to do something about the large spread between Brazil’s benchmark Selic rate and the average annual interest...

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