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1.1KPayments InnovationSolutions By Text, ACI Worldwide Link Up For SMS Transactions
ACI Worldwide, a real-time payment and banking company, has partnered with Solutions By Text, a Dallas-based automated texting company, to allow companies...
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1.7KToday In DataThinking Differently On Digital Payments And Data
Data breaches are a serious threat to the financial health of businesses and consumers. Is there a newer way to treat data that...
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1.5KRetailHow QSRs Are Enhancing The Dining Experience With Digital Innovations
To enhance diners’ experiences in quick-service restaurants (QSRs), managers are utilizing digital innovations, enabling everything from faster orders to more efficient kitchens....
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1.4KDisbursementsDailyPay Taps Fiserv To Provide On-Demand Access To Pay
To help provide employees with improved financial well-being, DailyPay tapped into Fiserv’s Digital Disbursements offering to allow workers access to their earned,...
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1.7KFintech InvestmentsGrab Financial Gets In SME Lending, Insurance
Grab Financial Group, the Southeast Asia FinTech company, announced Tuesday (March 19) the rollout of SME lending and micro-insurance for drivers in...
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3.0KDigital PaymentsHow Data Will Speed The Move To Cashless Payments
Is there a hotter topic — a buzzier buzzword, one might term it — than cashless? Ours is swiftly becoming the age...
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2.2KRetailHow Digital Verification Creates Seamless Experiences For Shoppers
In the digital age of subscription boxes and rideshares, consumers expect seamless experiences, whether they are ordering clothes for their wardrobes or...
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4.0KFaster PaymentsWhy Digital Disbursements Need More Than Speed
When it comes to payments, consumers overwhelming prefer them to be faster. It’s a trend visible in the latest edition of the...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsMastercard Strengthens Ties With Finexio For Supplier Payments
Mastercard and B2B payment network Finexio are entering into a strategic partnership to strengthen their supplier payment offering. In a press release,...
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2.7KPayment MethodsBarclaycard Brings Alipay To UK Retailers With New Deal
Barclaycard, the U.K. credit card and debit card payment processor, announced Thursday (March 14) it inked a new agreement with Alipay, the Chinese...
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4.1KDigital PaymentsDigital Billing’s New Usage-Based Look
Let’s a take a moment to celebrate the paper boys and girls who — showing early commitment to initiative, hard work and...
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6.7KDigital PaymentsPayPal Launches Instant Transfer To Bank
Money moves only as fast as payments infrastructure will allow. To that end, there’s a bottleneck. The gig economy is gaining steam,...
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3.2KRetailWhy Retailers Are Making mPOS Technology A Top Priority
In the age of digital payments, mobile point of sale systems (POS) are making inroads with the promise of time-saving conveniences for...
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6.4KSouth East AsiaThe Grab Journey: From Ride-Hailing To Mobile Financial Services Powerhouse
It’s said that the journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. The journey to build a digital ecosystem from the...
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2.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Japan Banks Launch Digital Wallet; Canadian Court Will Hear First-Ever Bitcoin Expert Witness
Japanese bank Mizuho, as well as around 60 other financial institutions (FIs), have launched a new digital wallet called J-Coin Pay. According...
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3.2KPayment MethodsAlipay Comes To Canada
SnapPay, the Canadian cross-border payments company, and Alipay, the Chinese digital payments platform operated by Ant Financial Services, announced a collaboration Wednesday...
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2.0KToday In DataBalancing Expectations With Consumer Authentication
While consumer satisfaction with authentication differs across sectors, financial services topped other markets in a recent report. In addition, there may be...
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2.2KRetailWhy Beauty Needs An OpenTable Platform
StyleSeat Founder Melody McCloskey knew she had a good idea when she launched StyleSeat in 2011, because the concept seemed so intuitive....
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3.8KB2B PaymentsWhy FLEETCOR Bought Nvoicepay
The B2B payments landscape is giant, so its problems and points of friction are behemoths, too. While the industry has opened doors...
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4.1KPayment MethodsNFC Forum Shares Specs For QR Codes Alternative
The NFC Forum, the standards and advocacy association for Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, released its NFC Money Transfer Candidate Specification (NMT) on Tuesday...
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2.8KToday In DataGrowing Strong: The Theme Of Early 2019
While worries about the domestic and global economies loom large, the story on the Street in early 2019 is mostly about growing...
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7.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWestern Union CEO: Speedpay Sale Speeds Way To X-Border Payments Growth
The year 2019 is already shaping up as a big year for deal-making in financial services and payments. Western Union, of course,...
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5.2KDeliveryWhy Retailers Are Crowdsourcing Delivery
Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid...
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7.9KInternet of ThingsAs The IoT Grows, Can It Overcome Security Problems?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about much more than the actual things, of course. All those “smart” appliances, speakers, TVs, vehicles,...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsVisa, PayMate Broaden Partnership For B2B Digital Payments
PayMate, a B2B digital payments company based in India, has broadened its partnership with Visa to include businesses in the Central and...
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3.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Ex-SoFi Head Pairs Blockchain With Lending; Fidelity Trials Bitcoin ‘Lightning’ Payments
The Lightning Network, a bitcoin experiment that allows users to quickly transfer funds around the world without a third party, has completed...
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3.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard Inks Deal With Angaza To Offer Pay-As-You-Go Services
Mastercard, the global payments company, has inked a global Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Angaza, a last-mile distribution technology, under which the...
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4.9KGlobal PaymentsSingtel Teams With Axiata Digital; Cleartrip Integrates Apple Pay
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the signing of a memorandum of...
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3.2KBankingHSBC Expands PayMe To Businesses With Beta Test
HSBC, the U.K. bank, has started beta testing of its PayMe System, a digital payment system for businesses. According to a report in...
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3.2KGoogleGoogle Sees Payments Potential In Subscription Gaming
Among the biggest games in eCommerce is, well, games, and that includes subscription streaming services along with the payments that go along...
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5.1KDigital PaymentsCiti Launches Digital Payment Service For Rent, School Expenses
Citigroup, the U.S. banking giant, announced on Tuesday (Feb. 26) the launch of a new service that lets users pay their rent and...
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2.6KToday In DataThe Next Frontier In Connecting Across Channels
It might be a bit of a cliché to note that we live in an increasingly connected world – though given that...
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5.8KSubscription CommerceHow Payments Have Ignited Subscription eCommerce
Subscription commerce has come a long way since book-of-the-month clubs and those record and cassette retailers that tempted teenagers with seeming impossible...
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6.5KToday In DataFinTech’s New Face, And The Fight Against New Fraud
Not all FinTech providers are FinTech firms — the reasons behind that help bring a deeper understanding of the modern digital economy. That...
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3.4KSizzle/FizzleFormjacking Takes Off (And The Rest Of The Week In Sizzles And Fizzles)
While there is much negative to be said about cybercriminals, one can’t accuse hackers and cybercriminals of being uncreative in their methods....
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2.7KToday In DataBuilding Digital Power While Breaking Down Barriers
The latest numbers out of the payments and commerce world show eCommerce and other retail gains for a major U.S.-based player, while...
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4.6KCashRetailers In Some States May Be Forced To Accept Cash
With a move toward cashless societies growing around the world, new legislation in the U.S. could force retailers and restaurants in a...
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9.1KDigital PaymentsAdyen Launches Direct-To-Merchant Payment Service
Adyen, the payments platform, announced Wednesday (Feb. 20) it has launched a new payment service that is powered by open banking. In...
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10.6KDigital PaymentsPayPal’s Schulman: Digital Payments To Be $100T Market
There are markets, and there are $100 trillion markets. And might digital payments be in that $100 trillion classification? In an interview...
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2.9KRetailHow Merchants Are Fueling Consumers’ Need For Speed (And Convenience) Via Mobile
For many consumers, smartphones aren’t only a way to catch up on emails or news: They are also a way to discover...
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13.3KAMLCanada Cannabis Payments Face Their Own Hurdles
Since last year, when Canada legalized recreational pot in full, the nation became a kind of country-sized lab for how that new...
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4.5KDigital PaymentsACH Network Adds More Than 1B New Payments In 2018
NACHA, the steward of the ACH Network, announced Tuesday (Feb. 19) that last year was a milestone year for the ACH Network with...
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2.9KInternationalMexico Sets Its Sights On FinTech Firms To End Poverty
Mexico’s new government, led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is setting its sights on financial technology to get the country out of...
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5.8KRetailWhy QSRs Are Upping Their Digital Game
In the digital age, quick service restaurants (QSRs) have a host of technologies at their disposal to remove friction in the ordering...
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2.6KToday In DataToday In Data: Digital Disbursements In Unexpected Markets
Digital disbursements are appearing in unexpected markets, such as sports betting platforms and boatsharing sites. Uber’s and Lyft’s initial public offerings (IPOs) are expected to take place this year, which...
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1.9KDigital PaymentsUATP, Conferma Pay Team To Bring Virtual Payment Cards To Airlines
UATP and Conferma Pay announced on Thursday (Feb. 14) that they have inked a partnership aiming to bring virtual card payment technology...
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2.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAnt Buys WorldFirst In $700M Deal
Ant Financial, the Chinese financial services affiliate of Alibaba, has inked a deal to acquire WorldFirst, the U.K. payments company. According to a...
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2.8KPersonnelMastercard CFO Retiring; Sachin Mehra To Take On Role
Mastercard, the Purchase, New York payments company, announced Wednesday (Feb. 13) that its chief financial officer is retiring. In a press release,...
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969Today In DataDynamic Friction, Keeping Consumers Safe Amid Contextual Commerce
Contextual commerce is everywhere, and much desired by consumers (just check out some of the latest stats from the Digital Consumer Report)....
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2.0KGlobal PaymentsSociete Generale Taps HPS For Payment Tech; ADCB Rolls Out App With Strands Tech
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Societe Generale’s selection of HPS for...
