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1.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsJPMorgan Buys InstaMed for $500M To Boost Healthcare Payments
In a bid to expand its healthcare payments presence, JPMorgan said Friday (May 17) that it has entered a deal to acquire...
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1.5KDisbursementsThe Cashless Check Is In The Mail
It might be too much (and certainly too cliché) to call it a revolution. Even so, it’s in the same neighborhood —...
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1.6KDigital PaymentsHow To Get DIY Landlords To Play The Digital Payments Game
Pain comes in many forms, including through anticipation. That holds true for the world of payments, even in this golden age of...
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1.4KInnovationSmaller US Cities Foster More Payments Innovation
The next chapter in the history of digital payments and commerce is being written in technology incubators – but not only those...
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1.8KDigital PaymentsDigital Marketplaces’ Growing Role In The Gig Economy
The gig economy has operated — and thrived — in a gray area. There has been a question as to whether workers...
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1.2KRetailHow Consumer Services Companies Are Innovating With App Features
To help improve their operations, consumer services companies appear to have some very specific ideas about digital technology. Firms in this space,...
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2.4KPayment MethodsAmadeus Teams With Elavon, Mastercard For Flight Payments
Amadeus, the travel technology solutions company, announced on Tuesday (May 14) that it has teamed up with Elavon and Mastercard to facilitate...
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2.1KPayment MethodsDeutsche Bank Taps Malaysian Instant Credit Clearing System
Deutsche Bank announced on Tuesday (May 14) that it is tapping Malaysia‘s instant credit clearing system, DuitNow, to process payments for corporate...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCitigroup, Paytm Launch Credit Card In India
Citigroup is making a bigger push into India, partnering with Indian digital payments company Paytm to launch a credit card. As Reuters...
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1.5KBitcoinBig Retailers Like Whole Foods To Accept Bitcoin
Major retailers — including Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom and Whole Foods — will now accept bitcoin, according to Fortune, and three other...
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1.9KMobile PaymentsMastercard, Kisio Team To Streamline Transport Payments
Mastercard and Kisio, a unit of Keolis, are joining forces to make it easier for people to pay for transportation around a...
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2.9KDigital PaymentsAs P2P Payments Spreads Its Wings, Challenges Loom
The spotlight burned brighter for peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in the first quarter of 2019, with those payment methods finding popularity among...
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1.8KInternationalAustralian Cash’s Spelling #Fail
When it comes to money, the little things really do matter — the really, really little things. That’s what Australian authorities are learning...
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2.3KBank RegulationNew Allies Aim To Solve Cannabis Payments Problem
It really wasn’t supposed to be this way, not as cannabis steadily became legal across the United States. Read the old pro-legalization...
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3.0KRegulationNew Debit Rules And The Promise Of Seamless Payments
Among the highest ideals for digital payments – driving innovation in transactions and customer experience – is, of course, the concept of...
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1.9KDigital PaymentsWhat Happens to Tipping When Cash Disappears?
A trip to a restroom, even in a restaurant in which customers tend to wear slacks instead of shorts, is a relatively...
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1.5KRetailSMB Retail Innovation: Payments And Inventory Boost Prospects
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – so goes the motto for pragmatic surrender. In retail, the corollary to that might...
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1.4KPlatform PaymentsYapstone Powers Expanded RentPay Platform For Rentals.com
Payments platform operator Yapstone has expanded its work with Rentals.com, enabling it to allow any renter to pay any landlord digitally. In a...
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1.6KResTechQSRs Notch Mobile Ordering, Loyalty Gains In 2019
Look at the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry and see how, in some part, the future of retail technology is playing out, a...
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1.3KToday In DataBalancing Secure And Seamless Commerce
That customers want everything faster is a fact of life in the digital economy. From the amount of time it takes to...
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1.6KRetailWhen Subscription Merchants Innovate With Plan Features
To make life easier for their customers, many businesses are adopting the subscription business model. From consumer goods and hardware to eCommerce...
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2.2KAuthenticationInstant IDV: Digital Security’s Next Big Thing?
Anything that grows faces various challenges, and even choke points — those things that can directly or indirectly cut off oxygen and...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsDubai Launches Business-To-Gov’t Digital Wallet
Dubai is looking at digital wallet technology to ease the friction of paying government fees for both businesses and consumers. Reports on...
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4.0KDigital BankingWhat FIs Don’t Know They Don’t Know About Their Customers
When it comes to long-term consumer relationships, few businesses can top banks. They tend to keep ties with consumers over decades —...
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2.1KGoogleGoogle I/O To Highlight Google Assistant, New Smart Speaker
It’s only spring, but in a digital commerce and payments sense, it’s also the early version of Christmas. Google’s latest I/O conference...
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2.0KIPOAs Uber IPO Approaches, Challenges And Anxieties Abound
Here it comes, the big initial public offering (IPO) from Uber, a highly anticipated event set for Thursday (May 9). But there’s...
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4.0KMastercardMastercard: Transactis Buy Speeds Bill Pay’s Digitization
Forty-four percent of the 15 billion bills in the U.S. are paid with cash or check — archaic methods in a mobile...
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2.5KDigital PaymentsWhatsApp Pay India Debut Targets Paytm Users
With the digital payments market heating up in India as major players enter it, Facebook-owned WhatsApp Pay is expected to be a...
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2.1KInvestmentsWhat’s Behind SoftBank’s Tech Investment Moves?
It’s usually folly to predict what will interest historians in the future. But there’s a good case that when it comes to...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsPundi X White Labels Digital Token Tech For Corporates
Blockchain payments company Pundi X has announced plans to launch Open Platform, a tool to enable developers and businesses to create blockchain...
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1.7KInvestmentsCannTrust Pot Stock Slides For Sixth Straight Day
The first-ever U.S. bank-led cannabis equity offering isn’t doing well. In fact, shares of CannTrust Holdings fell as much as 14 percent...
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1.8KFaster PaymentsSWIFT Rolls Out Payment Investigation, Resolution Service
SWIFT is expanding its network-wide payments validation toolkit, announcing Thursday (May 2) a new “in-flight” cloud-based payment investigation and resolution service. In...
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3.2KPayment MethodsRBS Gets Back Into Payments Ten Years After It Unloaded Worldpay
Royal Bank of Scotland is going after the payments market, launching a new unit Thursday (May 2) that will put it in...
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1.7KPayments InnovationHow FinTechs See The Evolution Of Payments And Commerce
FinTech firms are tracking the evolution of digital commerce and payments while tapping into the experiences of their leaders. AvidXchange Chief Operating...
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905RetailSainsbury’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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1.7KEarningsBank Upgrades, Worldpay Buy Fuel FIS Q1 Growth
Fidelity National bested first quarter estimates on the heels of transaction growth and increased spending by banks as they embraced upgrades to...
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1.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsUK Gives Green Light To PayPal/iZettle Deal
PayPal’s acquisition of iZettle is getting closer to completion after U.K.’s competition regulator dropped its opposition to the $2.2 billion deal. According...
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1.2KDigital PaymentsDigital Platforms’ Ambitious Growth Plans
Digital platforms are the backbone of marketplaces and service providers used by millions daily. Payment capabilities, coupled with rapid mobile adoption, have...
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2.1KAmazonAmazon Pay Powers P2P Payments In India
Amazon Pay announced Monday (April 29) the launch of person-to-person payments for Android users located in India. In a press release, Amazon...
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1.1KToday In DataFood For Thought With Mobile Order-Ahead
Mastication’s gone mobile, with bits and bytes taking their place alongside actual bites. As shown in the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker, a...
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3.2KNewsAmazon’s Bitcoin Embrace And Cannabis Burgers Top The Week’s News
The end of a busy week provides a chance to catch up on the biggest news from the world of digital payments...
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2.5KPayments InnovationCitigroup Ramps Up Payments Tech With New Tools
Citigroup’s Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli is relying on technology to increase its payment business. “Our strategy has to...
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3.7KDigital PaymentsCan P2P Payments Make Divorce Less Painful?
When digital payments and commerce professionals talk about “friction,” they usually mean reducing barriers that make a consumer pause before buying a...
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1.8KToday In DataMobile Means Much To CU Customers (Especially Younger Ones)
The old guard gives way to the new. The in-branch banking visits give way to mobile transactions, where people may never meet...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsFIS Taps Visa B2B Connect For X-Border Payments
Mired in paper and inefficient processes, B2B payments need an overhaul. That’s especially when done cross-border, because tracking fund flows between corporates becomes...
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3.0KFacebookFacebook Grows User Base 8 Percent, Bullish On Commerce
More consumers keep using Facebook even as the social network said on Wednesday (April 24) that it faces a fine of between...
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3.9KDigital PaymentsZelle Processes $39B In Q1
Digital payment company Zelle sent $39 billion through its network on 147 million transactions during the first quarter of this year, the...
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2.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWirecard Expands Partnership With RBL Bank
Wirecard, the digital financial technology company announced on Wednesday (April 24) that it has expanded a partnership with RBL Bank to promote...
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2.7KBankingBMO Bank of Montreal To Implement Mastercard Send In Canada
Mastercard and BMO Bank of Montreal announced Wednesday (April 24) that BMO is implementing Mastercard Send in an effort to deliver faster,...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsBlockchain Steers Toward Auto Supply Chain Transparency
To that end, Volkswagen, the German car manufacturer, said this week it is launching a blockchain pilot aimed at tracking battery supply...
