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1.4KEcosystemsWhat Will It Take To Electrify (And Digitize) Utility Payments?
Electricity moves pretty quickly, to put it mildly. Water can travel at some robust speeds, depending on gradient, pumps and other factors....
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1.6KDigital PaymentsWestern Union Teams With UK’s Post Office To Digitize Global Payments
Western Union has announced a collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Post Office Ltd. to offer U.K. consumers and businesses expanded digital international...
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789RetailPlatforms That Give Travelers’ Luggage Local Sanctuary
To help travelers and locals navigate cities without needing to lug around their bags, digital platforms are connecting consumers with businesses for...
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1.6KDigital PaymentsMastercard: The ePayables Opportunity
In the quest to streamline B2B processes, and to move beyond the way things have always been done – especially when it...
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1.3KInvestmentsSumUp Snags $371M Loan Backed By Bain, Goldman
Six-year-old digital payments startup SumUp has managed to secure a 330 million-euro ($371 million) loan, backed by Bain Capital Credit and Goldman...
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2.2KPayment MethodsPayPal’s Xoom Goes Global And Door-to-Door
Xoom, PayPal’s international digital money transfer service, is launching in the U.K. and 31 countries, allowing millions of users to remit in...
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2.7KDigital PaymentsThe ‘Invisible Change’ Coming To Online Shopping
For those who are focused on how better payments can lead to better eCommerce, the upcoming months promise to be an exciting...
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2.8KDigital PaymentsPaytm Claims 8M Customers In Japan
A Japanese venture launched in 2018 by India’s top payments app already has eight million customers, giving Paytm’s PayPay a sizable share...
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1.8KThe WeekenderLibra Resistance And Gig Early Pay Top Week’s News
Top News Mastercard Launches Early Pay Option For Gig Workers According to a recent study conducted by PYMNTS and Mastercard, of the...
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3.1KMastercardMastercard On What’s Next For Transfast
Mastercard’s acquisition of Transfast is a done deal. What’s next? Stephen Grainger, executive vice president of Mastercard, tells Karen Webster that the deal...
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3.8KFraud PreventionAI That ‘Thinks’ Like A Fraud Analyst
Businesses evolve and so does fraud. The data is out there to help separate good transactions from bad, but not all data...
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2.1KDigital PaymentsSubscription Commerce’s ‘Fear Of Commitment’ Moment
It’s one of the blessings and curses of subscription eCommerce: As easy as it can be to sign up consumers for one...
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Current Trade Practices Put Older Companies At An Advantage
Some firms say they expect their suppliers to accept late payments because they’re important customers. In mobile point of sale (mPOS) news, consumers around the...
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1.3KRetailCan Digital Platforms Solve The Fraud vs. Friction Dilemma?
Digital platforms facilitate everything from online shopping to ridesharing to booking a hotel. These platforms promise fast, seamless transactions, which most deliver...
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2.8KGig EconomyMastercard Launches Early Pay Option For Gig Workers
Much of the magic of using gig economy services like Uber is contained in the payment experience itself. Instead of fussing with...
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2.1KRetailHow QSRs Bring Mobile And Digital Payments To The Table
In the age of quick-service restaurant (QSR) dining technology innovation, restaurants are frantically looking into ways to provide consumers with mobile ordering...
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1.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFLEETCOR Expands Payroll Card Reach With SOLE Financial Buy
In a move that extends payroll card portfolios to serve small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), global business payments company FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc....
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1.8KDigital PaymentsCash Flow Forecasting That Sees The Forest From The Trees
There’s the forest and there’s the trees — and a lack of ability to see both at the same time can often lead...
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1.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAirfox, Mastercard Team To Expand Digital Banking In Brazil
Digital challenger banking startup Airfox has announced a partnership with Mastercard Brazil to expand the availability of low-cost banking solutions, according to...
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2.2KDigital PaymentsVisa: Contactless Payments Big Winners At FIFA Women’s World Cup
Contactless payments are making their own big play in the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019, at least according to new Visa...
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1.9KRetailVending Machines Turn To The Bubbly To Gain More Sales
Among the more interesting storylines of this era of digital commerce and payments is the maturation of vending machines — sorry, “unattended...
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1.7KPayment MethodsThe Surprising Industries Speeding Instant Payments Adoption
The global value of real-time compensation is projected to reach $34.3 billion over the next five years, according to the July Disbursements...
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1.6KGoogleGoogle Pay Now Supports Cards From 13 More US States
Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, Google Pay has rolled out mobile support for cards from 13 U.S. banks. Services like...
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2.5KDigital BankingNCR On D3 Acquisition And Banks Being ‘Digital-First’
In the financial services ecosystem, there are relatively invisible sources of power and fuel, those operations perhaps not well known in the...
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2.7KOmnicommerceOmnichannel Moves Beyond Retail
Let’s start this story with a trip to the dentist’s office. No, we don’t want to be there, either, but life requires...
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3.2KAccounts PayableSix Payment Methods AP Departments Like More Than Paper Checks
When it comes time to pay suppliers, most accounts payable (AP) professionals will use whichever payment method they need to get the...
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1.7KToday In DataCreating The Right Customer Experiences
Building the best possible consumer experience is the focus of many retailers and FIs – even though there is probably no one right...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsTradeshift Enables Employee Virtual Cards On Demand
Supply chain payments firm Tradeshift is expanding capabilities for companies to manage employee spend with Tradeshift Go 2.0, the company announced Monday (July...
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4.1KDisbursementsGig Economy And The Insurance Service Gap
Real-time payments are growing more established in countries like the United States, as institutes like The Clearing House (TCH) update their payment...
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2.1KDigital PaymentsIndonesian E-Wallet LinkAja Debuts In Jakarta
A state-owned e-wallet platform called LinkAja was launched on Sunday (June 30) in Jakarta, Indonesia, according to reports. The service was supposed...
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4.0KDigital PaymentsThe State Of India’s Digital Payments Progress — And Future
The digital transformation of India’s payments landscape is underway, through government mandate, and a slew of banking and FinTech players. Jeremy Wilmot,...
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2.3KSizzle/FizzleFacebook’s Post-Libra Fizzle
This was probably not the week Facebook had expected, post-Libra. You know, by now, that the social media giant unveiled the details...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsSolving B2B’s Back-Office (Digital Payments) Challenge
Banks and FinTech firms can leverage technology to bring B2B payments into the digital realm and to stop fraud before it happens. Easier...
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1.8KInternationalBrazil’s Big Blockchain Bounce (And Other Digital Payments Advances)
The digital payments news out of Brazil has been fast and furious over the last few weeks – particularly when it comes...
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4.0KVISAVisa Launches Installment APIs For Issuers And Merchants
The installment lending playing field just got more interesting — and global — today (June 27). Visa announced that it will bring...
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3.0KPOS InnovationUber Eats Taps Olo To Streamline Food Delivery
To integrate directly into the point-of-sale (POS) systems of leading restaurant brands through Olo Rails, Uber Eats has teamed up with digital food...
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2.1KRegulationG20 Finance Board: Libra Will Need To Be Watched Closely
Randal Quarles, chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), said there won’t be a specific item on the agenda about Facebook’s Libra...
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2.0KDigital PaymentsP2P Payments Find Fans In The Black Market
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments continue to gain popularity among consumers, with two of the biggest providers, Zelle and Venmo, reporting ongoing and significant...
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2.0KeCommerceMarketplaces’ Cross-Border Future
All the world’s a marketplace. Apologies to the Bard — and some of our high school English teachers — for tweaking that...
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3.6KDigital PaymentsRazer Gaming Company Teams With Visa For Online Payments
Razer, a gaming hardware company based in Singapore, has partnered with Visa to offer a prepaid card that will let the company’s...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsHow ACH Business Payments Pave The Way For US Open Banking
In B2B payments, corporates’ continued use of paper checks confounds FinTech firms working to give businesses more affordable, faster and more efficient...
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1.9KThe WeekenderLibra, MoneyGram-Ripple Deal And Fraud Prevention Top Week’s News
Summer is officially here, and with it, the first official weekend of summer — YES!! Payments and commerce, though, never take a...
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1.4KToday In DataDigital Payments And The Online Workforce
Online payment methods and digital technologies are coming into the working world. In healthcare, identity is taking center stage amid digitalization in...
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3.3KDigital PaymentsPayPal COO Bill Ready Announces Departure
Big news from PayPal — the payments firm on Thursday afternoon (June 20) that COO Bill Ready is leaving the company. According...
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1.6KBusinessLegal Cannabis Retail Rides A Wave Of Revenue Growth
In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsCross-Border Efforts Ripple (Literally) Through Cryptos And Payments
Libra topped headlines, spurring debate over crypto’s role in eCommerce. However, beyond Facebook’s announcement were several other initiatives, also designed to speed...
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2.2KInnovationPOS Payments At The Speed Of Sound (Waves)
Friction bedevils all types of retail — and that holds true for transactions inside stores or via eCommerce sites. At the same...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsHSBC Taps Tokenization For Accounts Receivable Tool
HSBC is rolling out its digital accounts receivable solution for corporates in India after teaming up with Australia-based Identitii, reports in IT...
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908eCommerceWholesale Cannabis Marketplace Hits $1B Milestone
The legal retail cannabis industry keeps on growing, and further evidence of that reportedly comes from LeafLink. The eCommerce wholesale marketplace, according...
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1.8KMobile PaymentsAnalyst: Square Cash App Downloads Top Venmo’s
A new report shows that Square’s Cash App downloads increased by 2.2 million last month, while Venmo’s were up 1.7 million. According...
