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1.3KRegulationRegulations 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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1.0KToday In DataToday In Data: Digital Upgrades Where You’d Least Expect Them
There are places where one would expect that technological innovations would play a big part in making things run better: banking, finance,...
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2.4KeCommerceWhy Africa Is eCommerce’s Next Great Frontier
Africa is home to 54 countries and hundreds of millions of smartphone users — young, tech-savvy and ready to embrace digital payments...
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2.5KEcosystemsVisa: How Payments Fuel The Connected Car Experience
It’s almost burnt rubber time. The ecosystem for connected cars and trucks — and the retail and payment tasks they do and...
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1.3KHealthcareAre Patients Really Gaining More Power Over Healthcare Pricing?
Information is power, right? Sure. Except when it’s a source of confusion. That’s the emerging — if very early — story so far...
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2.3KEcosystemsChinese P2P Falls As Other Payment Ecosystems Expand
Thanks to a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China, a move that came after a series of multibillion dollar scams...
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2.2KEcosystemsPayments Takes The Driver’s Seat In Connected Cars
What still stands as a type of existential dread (or, in some cases, a period of freedom) is on the verge of...
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1.7KGlobal PaymentsTyro Brings Alipay To Australian Airport; Paysend Rolls Out PaySendLink Service
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Tyro‘s integration of Alipay into airport...
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2.2KMobile PaymentsSquare Launches In-App Payments Kit For Sellers
Payment company Square, popular for its square-shaped mobile card reader, has released an in-app payments software development kit (SDK) that will give...
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1.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPaya Acquisition Aims To Solve City Hall’s Paper (Billing) Chase
Build or buy — or how about buy, then build? Continuing an acquisitive strategy that seeks to expand integrated payment capabilities, Paya...
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3.5KMobile PaymentsVisa, SiriusXM Pair On In-Car eWallets
Visa and SiriusXM Connected Vehicles Services, a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings, have announced they are teaming up to launch a new...
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2.2KPayment MethodsAlternative Payments Gain Global Traction, But Cash Remains Tough Foe
The recent announcement that China’s UnionPay and Huawei are teaming up to bring Huawei Pay to Russia stands as the latest example...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsPayPal India Sees Revenue Jump 12x
PayPal has reported a more than twelvefold boost in revenue at its Indian payments subsidiary. According to The Economic Times, revenue reached Rs...
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3.4KPersonnelSquare Names Blizzard Entertainment Executive As Next CFO
Square, Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company, announced Thursday (January 3) that it named Blizzard Entertainment chief financial officer Amrita Ahuja as its...
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3.2KPayment MethodsWhy QSRs Like Amazon Pay
Quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers are a conservative bunch when it comes to payments, new PYMNTS research found. It makes sense — the process...
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3.9KMerchant InnovationHelping QSRs Avoid Physical Retail’s Fate
Once upon a time — about a decade ago — there was this QSR executive who observed the rise of online retail,...
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2.7KCashMobile Payments Are Making Cash Obsolete In China
With mobile payments in China booming, cash is going away — despite efforts by the Central Bank to go after merchants who...
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2.7KPayments InnovationTurning Unplanned Spend Into Spend Management Innovation
In the middle of an otherwise productive day — one of those shifts when the whole team is not only ahead of...
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7.2KPayment Methods2019: The Year Of Instant Payments
Here’s a 2019 prediction that we guarantee will come true: There will be no human being or business adamantly hoping to be...
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2.6KCommentaryAEVI CEO: 2018 Was The Year Of Changing
Mike Camerling, CEO of AEVI, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. We cannot call 2018 a Year...
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4.5KVISAVisa Inks Deal To Buy UK-Based Earthport For $250.6M
Visa, the payments company, is acquiring U.K.-based Earthport, which facilitates international transactions for banks and companies. Reuters, citing Visa, reported Visa International Service Association...
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4.1KInnovationDeutsche Bank: How To Make FI/FinTech Partnerships Work
David Watson of Deutsche Bank contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ Masterclass series, where participants in the world of payments...
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1.6KMobile ApplicationsMINDBODY Goes Private In Deal With Vista Equity Partners
Software company MINDBODY, which makes platforms for the fitness industry, will become a private company after a brief stint as a public...
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4.1KGoogleGoogle Gets EU eMoney License
Google Payment Lithuania, a unit of Alphabet’s Google, was granted an electronic money institution license by The Board of the Bank of Lithuania....
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6.3KCommentary2018: The Year Of Evolution In Payments’ Revolution
In life, change is the only constant, so why should it be different for payments? From cash to digital, from plastic cards...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsCorcentric On Myth-Busting Electronic B2B Payments Adoption
The payments industry has been talking about the digitization of B2B transactions for years, maybe decades, with not much of a nudge...
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2.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCiti Treasury, Feedzai Offer Real-Time Risk Management
Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) announced on Wednesday (Dec. 19) that it has inked a partnership deal with Feedzai, an artificial...
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1.7KCashReport: 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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1.5KToday In DataToday In Data: Connecting The Dots In The Ticketing Landscape
Reselling platforms are seeking to take on risk and delays in the ticketing space by connecting fragmented infrastructures. At the same time,...
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1.9KDisbursementsBringing Security And Control To Ticket Sales
Secondary ticket sales for live events bring in more than $35 billion annually. Most of those funds, though, need to be disbursed...
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3.9KDisbursementsSecondary Ticket Disbursements’ $35B Risk
Whether it’s gig workers waiting for compensation or ticket sellers waiting on their payments, everyone wants to be paid quickly. That can...
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2.2KGlobal PaymentsDe Lijn Taps Conduent For Fare Collection; Network International Rolls Out Google Pay
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Network International’s rollout of Google Pay acceptance...
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2.6KSecurity & FraudPayPay Vows To Strengthen The Security Of Its Payment App
Japanese payment provider PayPay said Monday (Dec. 17) that it will strengthen the security of its app after receiving several complaints from...
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1.9KGlobal PaymentsHow FinTech Companies Can Connect Buyers And Suppliers
Payments have been a pain point throughout the evolution of merchants. As commerce globalizes, merchants are left wondering whether they have the...
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2.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard, BLIK Partner To Bring Contactless Payments To Poland
Mastercard, the global payments company, and Polish Payment Standard, the operator of BLIK, a Polish mobile payment system and scheme, announced Monday...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsACH Shows Signs Of B2B Payments Dominance
New analysis from corporate payments firm Bill.com suggests ACH payments are dominating the accounts payable department. In an announcement on Thursday (Dec. 13),...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsWestern Union, JD Digits Eye Biz Payments With X-Border Partnership
Western Union has announced a partnership with Chinese digital payments company JD Digits, which will advance digital cross-border money movement and payments in...
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2.8KSecurity & FraudEMVCo Updates Protocol To Prevent CNP Fraud
EMVCo, the global technical body that facilitates the worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions, announced late last week that it...
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5.0KBrexitEBA: No-Deal Brexit Would Hurt UK Payment Firms
Payment providers in the U.K. are not fully prepared for the chance of a no-deal Brexit, warned the European Banking Authority late...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsWestern Union, TerraPay Team Up For Mobile Wallet Payout Options
Western Union has teamed up with TerraPay, a B2B mobile payments company, to enable bank account and mobile wallet payouts, according to...
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2.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsEmergent Technology Buys Interpay To Get Access To Africa
Emergent Technology, the financial technology company, announced Thursday (Dec. 13) that it has bought Interpay, a Ghana-based payments processor. Terms of the...
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3.8KDigital PaymentsVisa, Ingo Partner To Make Push Payments Turnkey
Ingo Money, the instant money company, announced Thursday (Dec. 13) the rollout of Ingo Money QuickConnect, which is a service that lets...
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2.5KCross Border CommerceRipple, Finablr To Launch Asia X-Border Remittances
UAE Exchange, the United Arab Emirates-based company, and Ripple, the blockchain technology company based in the U.S., are gearing up to launch cross-border...
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2.0KToday In DataToday In Data: Creating The Next Generation Of Digital Connections
While it is easy to feel like the whole world’s gone digital, the reality is that there are larger than expected places...
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5.3KMobileHow Will 5G Shake Up Banking And FinTech?
Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to work more closely with...
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3.1KPersonnelSWIFT CEO To Step Down In June
SWIFT announced Wednesday (Dec. 12) that the company’s Chief Executive Officer Gottfried Leibbrandt has informed the board that he plans to leave...
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2.3KPlatform PaymentsHow Webconnex Works To Make Events Simple
There can’t be a barnburner if it can’t get off the ground to begin with. And no matter what the event is,...
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3.8KRetailHow Digital Will Change Brick-and-Mortar In 2019
Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape...
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3.5KDigital PaymentsCoinone Debuts Payment App Via Ripple Tech
Coinone, a South Korean-based platform for cryptocurrency exchange, has released a blockchain-powered remittance app called Cross, according to a report. Cross uses...
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3.2KDigital PaymentsMastercard, Cardstream Team To Promote UK Digital Payments
Cardstream, the U.K. provider of white-label payment software and services, announced on Tuesday (Dec. 11) the launch of a new initiative that is...
