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3RetailChinese Consumers Pay With Biometrics During Singles’ Day Shopping Event
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping event on Nov. 11 was a huge success; with $30.8 billion in transactions, it surpassed Cyber Monday and...
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2.7KInternationalAlipay Teams With UEFA For Mobile Payments At Soccer Games
With a new commerce deal for the soccer world, Ant Financial’s Alipay has partnered with Europe’s UEFA to bring its platform to events sanctioned...
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1.5KResTechResTech Race Gains Fresh Buzz From Fast-Casual Sector
Some of them provide an easy target for mockery, especially among younger consumers who often see them as offering bland, unhealthy fare....
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2.1KMobile Payments7-Eleven’s Chief Digital Officer On The Launch Of ‘Scan & Pay’
Cashierless payments are set to increasingly be part of the convenience store checkout model. To that end, 7-Eleven said earlier this week...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsHarvard And Capital One Survey Mid-Market B2B ePayments Adoption
When it comes to B2B payments digitization, not every company will experience the same journey. That’s especially true for firms of varying...
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3.7KTravel PaymentsThe High Price Of Payments — And Innovation — In Travel
It’s that time of the year: crowded airports, missed connections, maybe the surprise of an upgrade (to stretch out those legs after...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsAmerican Express V-Cards Now Available In WEX AP Platform
American Express has struck a new partnership in its latest B2B payments push, announcing a collaboration with commercial payments firm WEX to...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsWhy Real-Time Payments Need Real-Time Trust
It can be a moment of anxiety, worry and mistrust: that moment when a digital payment is sent into what was once...
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1.6KNewsFive At Five: Apple Cuts Some iPhone Production
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest about Apple’s...
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1.4KToday In DataToday In Data: The Evolving Face Of What’s Next In Mobile
It’s been an up and down week on the stock market as earnings reports have piled in and investors have like, or...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsBilltrust And Visa Launch B2B Payments Platform
Visa and Billtrust today (Nov. 5) announced the launch of the Billtrust Business Payments Network (BPN), an open buyer/supplier payments platform that...
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2.6KEarningsAnt Financial Posts Rare Quarterly Loss
Ant Financial, the Chinese FinTech giant and an affiliate of Alibaba Group, posted an earnings pre-tax loss of 2.4 billion yuan ($353 million...
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1.8KToday In DataToday In Data: Building A Better – Paper-Free – B2B Payments World
Though rapidly going extinct in consumer transactions, the check is alive and quite well in the B2B space. Not because anyone is especially...
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3.2KEarningsWestern Union Grows Digital Double-Digits, Expands Underbanked Reach With Amazon
Double-digit growth marked Western Union's digital offerings, and now represents 12 percent of the firm's key C2C business. Management pointed to solid growth...
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3.3KEarningsCardtronics Q3 Revenue Takes Hit From UK And Australia Declines
Lower ATM operating revenue in the U.K. and Australia helped depress Q3 earnings revenue for Cardtronics, the world’s largest owner of ATMs....
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2.3KMastercardMastercard Protests Payments ‘Nationalism’ In India
Mastercard reportedly has lodged a protest with the U.S. government over the use of nationalism by the government in India to promote...
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1.8KeCommerceSamsung Pay Gets Online Boost With Braintree Integration
Braintree, the eCommerce payments company owned by PayPal, announced Thursday (October 1) that Braintree merchants in the U.S. can now accept Samsung...
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1.8KRetailCashierless Stores Take Seattle Grocery Cues To Asia
Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January, the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of...
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2.1KRetailHow Uber, Instagram And GUESS? Are Driving Platform Payment Innovation
To meet the demands of consumers hungry for digital payment options, a growing number of online platforms are changing the way that...
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1.5KBankingVietnam’s Largest Bank May Soon Open US Branch
Vietnam’s biggest bank has made a significant step in becoming the first Vietnamese bank to open a branch in the United States....
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1.5KB2B PaymentsWirecard, Spendit Expand Employee Card Reach Across Europe
Payments company Wirecard is broadening its existing partnership with Spendit to launch employee spend and benefits solutions across Europe, beginning with the...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsYooz Taps SnapCheck To Digitize Checks In Accounts Payable
Invoicing and payments Software-as-a-Service company Yooz has struck a strategic partnership with SnapCheck to address the friction of companies paying suppliers by check....
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3.1KPayment MethodsThe Three Reasons Why Businesses Still Use Checks
Checks, despite their near extinction in consumer payments, remain alive and well when it comes to businesses paying each other. And that,...
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4.2KDisbursementsTRENDING: Freelancers Give Gig Economy An Instant Payments Push
Whether picking up extra hours driving for Uber or consulting for a financial service firm, everyone has a side gig nowadays —...
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2.0KEarningsYum! Brands On How Delivery, Digital And Takeout Are Their Future
Yum! Brands beat Wall Street’s expectations when its earnings were released Wednesday, as an assortment of new menu offerings were successful in drawing...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsAmerican Express Ventures Invests In API Platform Cloud Elements
Cloud Elements, a platform offering application program interface (API) integration solutions, secured an investment from the venture capital (VC) arm of American Express (Amex),...
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2.4KRetailAEVI Software Launch Targets SMB Checkout Improvements
It’s never easy being a mom-and-pop merchant, or a similarly small retailer, given the resources of the bigger rivals out there, along...
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1.3KToday In DataToday In Data: Figuring Out The New Fundamentals
Today’s conventional wisdom has a way of becoming tomorrow’s outdated – or nearly invisible – idea. In recent memory, the CW was...
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4.0KDigital PaymentsCan Mobile Pay-At-Table Be Dining’s Friction Elixir?
These days, it’s hard to even think of a restaurant operating without some massive presence in digital — not only an attractive website,...
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4.6KFaster PaymentsNEW DATA: Why One-Third Of Businesses Want Real-Time Payments
Paper checks are still the norm when it comes to B2B payments — and companies aren’t happy about it. After all, paper...
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3.0KToday In DataToday In Data: Digital’s Growing New Frontiers
It might not have been a great week in the stock market for tech or retail firms, but by the numbers, there’s...
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1.7KToday In DataToday In Data: Jumping On A Fast-Moving Digital Payments Train
While cash is unlikely to ever disappear, the digitization of money is proceeding rapidly – and even arguably picking up speed. That’s...
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3.1KSecurity & FraudVisa’s Expanded Token Services Partner List Now Includes Amazon
Call it the week of tokenized credentials on file, the week of EMVCo and the week of SRC. As noted in these...
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2.4KToday In DataToday In Data: A Whole New Connected World
In what feels like the blink of any eye, the Internet of Things has gone beyond smart speakers and a handful of wearables on...
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3.8KVISAVisa B2B Biz Nears The Trillion-Dollar Mark
Double-digit growth marked Visa's key metrics in the latest quarter, from processed transactions to cross-border activity. Management pointed to performance and potential as...
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4.5KMPOS TrackerWhy Yesterday Is The Key To Building mPOS’ Future
Before 2009, when Square launched in the U.S., the world of payments wasn’t terribly friendly terrain for small and micro-businesses looking to...
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3.3KPayment MethodsGrab, Mastercard Bring Prepaid Cards To Southeast Asia
Grab, the ride-hailing company out of Southeast Asia, and Mastercard, the payment company, announced on Wednesday (Oct. 24) a partnership to issue...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsWEX Strikes Noventis Acquisition Deal
Commercial payments company WEX is looking to expand its offering by acquiring one of its partners, Noventis. A press release this week...
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2.8KDigital PaymentsZelle, Venmo P2P Payments Race Gains Fresh Fuel In Q3
The third quarter proved more than kind to peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, at least according to financial results for the two main competitors,...
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4.0KDigital PaymentsAs Medical Billing Goes Digital, New Benefits — And Challenges — Arise
As the benefits of bringing more digital power to medical billing become clearer, there are other issues and concerns rising that underscore...
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3.6KInvestmentsVisa Invests In Brazil Payment Co Conductor
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. In...
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2.5KVISAVisa Announces Continued Support For EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (Oct. 23) that it continues to support the draft of the EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)...
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2.6KDigital PaymentsFaster Remittances App Uses Visa APIs, Takes Money20/20 Grand Prize
An app designed to speed up the remittance process, designed via Visa APIs, has taken a top honor at Money20/20 in Las Vegas. The win...
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2.9KMastercardMastercard On Why It Supports EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification
Mastercard, the digital payments company, made the case in a blog post Monday (Oct. 22) on why it supports EMVCo’s release of...
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4.3KMobile PaymentsCiti Ventures Makes Investment In Ondot
A sense of control and security goes a long way toward building confidence, and that’s especially true in payments and commerce. Make...
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3.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsNCR To Buy Payment Processing Firm JetPay
NCR is expanding further into payments. The U.S.-based firm said Monday (Oct. 22) that it will buy Pennsylvania-based JetPay, “a provider of...
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2.1KToday In DataToday In Data: Driving A Digitally Determined World
In an average week, the average consumer spends about 24 hours online – exactly 1/7 of their time. They use their phones...
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1.6KDigital PaymentsINVEX Links With Ondot On Instant Digital Credit Card In Mexico
The INVEX credit card business said on Monday (Oct. 22) that it has linked with Ondot, which focuses on mobile payments, to...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsAustralia Moves To Standardize eInvoicing
Australia and New Zealand are planning to create trans-Tasman standards for electronic invoicing in an effort to save $30 billion over 10...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsUkraine Defends Cost Of eProcurement Project ProZorro
Ukrainian government officials are defending payments made to their digital procurement platform provider, following claims of wasted funds as detailed in the...
