digital payments

First Data Moves Into China With Huifu Integration

First Data, the commerce-enabling technology company, announced on Thursday (Sept. 20) that it has inked a deal with Huifu Payment, a third-party...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Digital Payments Take Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

That digital payments are moving forward fast is inarguable at this point. You can see it in the explosive growth of P2P payments in the...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: Beauty App Embraces Crypto Rewards; Associated British Ports Explores Blockchain

Augmented reality (AR)-powered beauty app Perfect365 is going to start rewarding its more than 100 million users with cryptocurrency. According to The Next...

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SMBs Claim Control Over Finances With B2B Payments Innovation

There is a disconnect between the payment options businesses offer their customers and the options businesses use to pay each other. Between...

Can Virtual Cards Void Checks’ Feeble Future?

In an effort to kill the check — where B2B payments are anything but efficient — might virtual cards be the answer? In...

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Loans

China’s X Financial Has A New US IPO And 400M P2P Leads

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China is not for the faint of heart — and that’s putting it lightly. Banks offer credit limits...

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Data

How Cutting-Edge Tokens Can Help Retailers Find More Profit In Data

Data is one thing — a valuable commodity that makes information the oil of the digital age. However, keeping track of data...

Security & Fraud

Government Payment Service Leaks Data On 14M Customers Online

Government Payment Service, the company that enables online payments for thousands of U.S. state and local governments, has inadvertently made available information...

Economy

When Economies Sour, The Hedgers Stand Tall

Silver linings. Blessings in disguise. Opportunities are knocking. Pick a favorite cliché — it’s OK — and feel free to apply it to...

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Payment Methods

Stripe Takes On Square, Clover With New Terminal

Stripe, the payments company, announced on Monday (Sept. 17) the launch of Stripe Terminal, a product that will enable online businesses and...

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Payments Innovation

UnionPay To Roll Out Branded Card In The UK

China’s UnionPay, the payment card issuer, is gearing up to roll out branded cards in the U.K. as it expands more into...

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NEW DATA: An Inside Look At The B2B Payments Satisfaction And Usage Disconnect

Paper checks have long been used in the B2B industry, serving as one of the few ubiquitous payment methods in an otherwise...

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Risk Management

Why Farmers Now Care About Hedging Currency Risk

Farming has always been about risk. Bad weather, infestation, speculation: Such factors can not only mean survival or failure for farmers, but...

Paytm Fights For Digital Payments Dominance In India

Paytm is ready to take on its rivals in India by expanding its services and relying on its regional expertise. “The fight...

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SMBs

PayPal’s Funds Now Gives SMBs Instant Access To Sales

When it comes to running a small business that accepts electronic payments, there are two words that business owners don’t like to...

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Mobile Payments

Millennials, Mobile Payments And Debit: A Recipe For Consumer Engagement

Millennial consumers are ready to be brand ambassadors — especially when engaging in mobile commerce with private-label debit programs. That’s the message...

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Retail

Google Pay, Apple Pay Arrive At 7-Eleven

To speed up shopping trips for its customers, 7-Eleven now takes Google Pay and Apple Pay at most of its U.S. locations....

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Cross-Border FinTech Collaborations Gain Traction

In FinTech and FI collaborations, borders fall to bits and bytes. On FinTech collaboration writ large, Singapore and Dubai are working together...

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Cash

Why Digital Finance Can’t Oust Cash In The Middle East And Africa

Digital financial services are looking at an uphill climb in beating cash use in countries like Turkey, despite the undeniable growth of...

Ridesharing

Uber Ecosystem Expands Into Uber Cash

Mention innovation and disruption and thoughts will often turn to Uber. The story of the ridesharing company’s massive disruption of the century-old regulated taxi...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Variety Is The Spice Of Life (And Commerce, And Payments)

A little choice goes a long way in a digital economy. Being able to choose the pace of payments is critical for businesses, as letting customers...

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Commercial Cards, Mobile A Heavenly Match: UMB

Financial service providers looking to enhance B2B payments offerings must turn their attention to the user experience. Digital payments, faster transaction times,...

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UMB Spotlights The Supplier Payment User Experience

Banks continue to make moves in an effort to get their corporate clients off paper. Recent innovations in ACH payments has the...

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Healthcare

Leavitt Partners, Facing Addiction, Remedy Partners Announce New Payment System

Leavitt Partners, Facing Addiction with NCADD (The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) and Remedy Partners, along with other leading healthcare...

Data

TokenEx Uses Multi-Variant Tokenization To Streamline Data Flows

Keep it simple. That guidance, handed down by parents since cavemen days, also applies to the cutting edge of digital data technology...

Investments

Nigeria’s Mobile Wallet Paga Snags $10M, Expands Cross-Border

Nigerian digital payments startup Paga has received $10 million in funding as it prepares to expand into other countries. CEO Tayo Oviosu announced at...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Tapping Into The Tokenized Future

While the “mobile everything” future has been long predicted, as of the second half of 2018, we are actually beginning to see...

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Apple

Apple Suspends Plans For Digital Payment Service In India

Apple has halted plans to bring digital payments to India, thanks in part to regulatory hurdles and challenges in creating a service...

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News

Five At Five: Amazon’s New India Push

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes details of Amazon’s new...

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Yardi Digitizes Real Estate Vendor Payments

Property management software provider Yardi is enhancing its payments capabilities through a new partnership with Fifth Third Bank. Yardi announced in a...

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Ridesharing

Uber’s Newest Project? Reinventing Its Payments Experience

The transportation company that innovated payments by delivering the Uber experience is at it again — this time, by making it easier...

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Payments Innovation

New Podcast: Rambus CTO On Securing Remote Commerce And Ditching The Friction

As Sam Cooke sang: “It’s been a long time comin’ … but I know a change is gonna come.” Commerce changes slowly,...

Healthcare

Digital Healthcare Faces Hurdles, But The Push Continues

Digital technology is changing healthcare, from recordkeeping to disbursements, but the move away from analog is a journey that involves significant hurdles....

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Mobile Applications

Tapzo Shuts Down Post-Amazon Acquisition

Tapzo, the app aggregator acquired by Amazon Pay, announced on Tuesday (Sept. 4) that it is shutting down the mobile app. According...

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What’s the Future For Payment Cards?

What does the future hold for the plastic payment card? Will it go the way of the check — still in use, but...

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Digital Payments Advance In India And Africa

The summer, now drawing to a close, brought significant payments and commerce activity outside the Western world. A new PYMNTS story offers...

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Innovation

New Global FinTech Deal Highlights Collaborative Trend

The latest global FinTech collaboration ties together Singapore and Dubai in a deal designed to encourage innovation in digital payments, online and...

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India’s Payments Power Moves

Cash continues to command the loyalties of consumers in India. However, as demonstrated this summer, the country is not only embracing digital...

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Innovation

How Five High School Kids Are Changing Payments For The Visually Impaired

Right now, it looks like a blood pressure cuff with wires and tiny boxes attached to it. Or, perhaps, an oversized watchband,...

International

In India, Has Demonetization Been Defeated?

When you want to know something: Follow the money. In India, then, to find out how well, or not so well, demonetization...

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International

The Tech And Payments Promise Of Africa

The next great tech frontier? That would be Africa, according to recent comments from Alibaba Group Holding’s founder and chairman Jack Ma....

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