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3.3KDigital PaymentsIn the Gig Economy, (Payments) Speed Thrills, But Added Fees Chill
In the latest Data Drivers, Hyperwallet SVP of digital markets Michael Ting weighs in on the evolving landscape for gig workers --...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsCitizens Tracks Mid-Market CFOs’ Real-Time Payments Plans
A new survey from Citizens Bank explores how mid-market CFOs in the U.S. are anticipating new technologies and market trends for the...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsCitizens Looks Toward Collaboration To Greet B2B Payments Disruption
Embracing electronic B2B payments is a two-way street: Payers and payees alike have to put in the effort to make the change....
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4.2KCashThe Financial Data Goldmine Of Order-To-Cash
Order-to-cash is an area of cash flow management that has the potential to significantly enhance a business’s financial performance. But ongoing reliance on...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsFastPay Acquires AnchorOps To Solve Media Agency Cash Crunch
The world of advertising and media has been turned on its head by the digital revolution, and among all of the challenges...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsA Global Approach To Local B2B Payments Digitization
Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsVirtual Cards’ Role In B2B Payments Digitization
Even as B2B payments progresses toward digitization, paper checks stick around. Analysts and industry players generally have their bets set on ACH...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsFed Looks To Keep Momentum Going On Payments Improvements
It’s been more than two years since the Federal Reserve issued its Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System paper, in which the...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsMaking The Perfect B2B Payment
When organizations take in and pay out purchase orders and invoices, what does the perfect payment look like? Bob Sneed, vice president...
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3.5KRegulationCLEARR And CHOICE On The Hill, But Not On Payments Regs
Capitol Hill offers the ultimate horse race. Following who’s up, down, in the running, out of the race and which bills might...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsTracking Corporate Spend, Even After The Invoice Is Paid
Within the enterprise, there is an initial invoice associated with any purchase, but the payments don’t stop there. According to Apptricity CEO...
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4.5KVISAVisa Beats 3Q Estimates As Payments Volume Leaps
Double-digit transaction growth and strength in Europe boosted Visa’s earnings beyond the Street’s expectations, while management also gave the lift to expected revenue...
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3.5KInternationalIndia’s Grand (De) Monetization Experiment
Eight months in, assessing the impact of what happens when you remove 86 percent of a country’s notes in circulation. India’s push...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsEconomic Climate Offers Prime Time For Small Biz ACH Adoption
Even the largest banks struggle in joining various payment schemes, analysts say. For small businesses looking to gain efficiencies by adding support...
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3.8KNewsMexico’s Capital City to Go Digital Via Mastercard
As technology paves the path for streamlined digital efforts and more people move into cities, the payment options in some urban areas...
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3.2KPayments InnovationNACHA CEO On The Need For … Innovation
In payments, speed thrills. But as NACHA CEO and President Jan Estep told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, speed isn’t everything. Innovation is key...
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5.2KSecurity & FraudSWIFT Releases Customer Security Guidance
SWIFT announced Monday (May 22) that it is setting global customer security standards and boosting its overall transparency on cybersecurity among users of...
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2.4KPayment MethodsSingaporeans Ditch Cash For Digital Payments
The number of consumers in Singapore who prefer electronic payments over cash increased 11 percent in 2016 to 87 percent. That’s according to...
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2.1KInternationalChina Trade Deals In Place For Payments, With Some Issues Outstanding
Trade deals are newly in place between China and the United States and touch on, as The New York Times reported, electronic...
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7.4KPayment MethodsVantiv Inks Deal To Buy Paymetric
Vantiv, the provider of payments processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions, announced Tuesday (April 25) that it’s...
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2.7KPayment MethodsMizuho, Metaps, WiL And Mizuho Bank Rolling Out Digital Wallet Company
Mizuho Financial Group is teaming up with Mizuho Bank, Metaps and WiL to create a new service settlement using FinTech. According to...
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8.5KB2B PaymentsPayPool Jumps Into B2B Payments Waters
The B2B payments space has just grown, thanks to the new presence of PayPool. The U.S. company, founded just last year, made...
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6.9KB2B PaymentsPaper Checks’ Uncertain B2B Payments Future
It seems every year for the past five years or so, B2B payments analysts have pondered the future of the paper check...
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2.0KInternationalIndia Tries Lottery To Fix Cash Crisis
With India suffering from a cash shortage ever since the government took away high-denomination Indian notes to clamp down on fraud, the government...
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3.4KeCommerceVisa Says EU Proposal On Electronic Payments Could Hurt Online Shopping
An EU plan to require passwords or codes to authenticate electronic payments is raising the ire of Visa, which said Tuesday (Nov....
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4.2KB2B PaymentsCash Still King For Some (Not All) SMEs
The saying goes, “Cash is king,” and the rise of electronic payments technology has yet to dethrone cash. A new report by...
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3.1KB2B Payments
Viewing Payments As The Corporate Cash Flow Lever
Same Day ACH is on the cusp of entering the market, blockchain startups are making their visions a reality with bank partners...
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Payment Methods
ACI Worldwide Amps Up Erste Bank Hungary Electronic Payments
One of Hungary’s largest banks, Erste Bank Hungary (EBH), is enhancing its electronic payment services by working more closely with partner ACI Worldwide. ACI...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsLifting The Veil On Virtual Cards’ Shortcomings
Here’s a dirty little secret about the B2B payments industry that Finexio CEO Ernest Rolfson told PYMNTS: Virtual cards are a letdown. Virtual...
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5.1KDigital BankingWill Digital Payments Slash Costs for Banks?
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America CEO, says the rise of mobile payments will lead to a fall in the cost of doing...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsHong Kong Grows eCheck System For Cross-Border Payments
Hong Kong and mainland China are looking to facilitate cross-border trade deals — and their transactions — by turning to electronic payment...
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7.5KB2B PaymentsFed Acknowledges Roadblocks In ISO 20022 Push
The Federal Reserve is pushing for adoption of the ISO 20022 global payments messaging standard, a move industry analysts say could streamline...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsWhy UK SMEs Could Soon Be Locked Out Of ePayments Scheme
Hundreds of small businesses in the U.K. may soon be unable to make electronic payments via the Bacs payment system, the payment...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsCorporate Finance Figures On The Up
The numbers are on the up this week! But don’t let that fool you. Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good...
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3.2KPayment MethodsAre Payments Execs Ill-Prepared To Innovate?
The advent of advanced mobile technology and LTE connections might have put consumers years ahead of the curve, but most businesses are...
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B2B Payments
Baby Steps In Digital B2B Payments
Corporations have been chastised in recent years as floods of new data reveal the ongoing prevalence of paper checks in B2B payments....
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4.1KPayment MethodsVisa Details Electronic Payments’ $300B GDP Impact
The results of a Visa-commissioned study, released Wednesday (March 9), found that the increased use of electronic payments boosted economic growth across...
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7.8KB2B PaymentsMyECheck Brings Real-Time Payments To Government Services
MyECheck, which develops and licenses cloud-based technology geared toward the banking and mobile payments industry, said Thursday (Jan. 21) that it is entering...
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News
Ingenico Goes All In On ePayments
Payment provider Ingenico Group has a new brand: Ingenico ePayments. The announcement was made yesterday (Jan. 18) in a press release that...
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6.7KPayment MethodsIoT Provider Partners To Innovate Charitable Payments
KORE, a global provider of managed communications specializing in Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets, is partnering with DipJar to...
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3.1KPayment MethodsMassachusetts Adopts Statewide ePayment Solution
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is launching a new electronic payment solution with the help of Grant Street Group’s PaymentExpress. The ePayment system...
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Mobile Commerce
Electronic Payments System Pays Off For Industry Jobs
While today’s trend in big banking seems to be cutting costs through layoffs — relying instead on technology to meet the growing...
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International
Visa/Visa Europe’s $22B Deal Close To Official
In the latest version of the “will they or won’t they” parlor game that dominates Wall Street, and sometimes the payments industry,...
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1.2KNewsCiti Payment Exchange Expands To Canada
Building off what Citi calls a successful launch of its Citi Payment Exchange three years ago in the U.S., the bank has launched...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsglobalVCard Exec Sees Growing Transition From Paper Checks To Electronic Payments
Paper checks are proving to be a stubborn holdout among North American enterprises. With the growth in secure transactions, especially in the...
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1.8KControversialOne Bright Spot In Debt Crisis As Greek Government Supports Electronic Payments
Though uncertainty reigns when it comes to Greece – whether the nation will stay with or exit the Euro, when banks will...
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2.3KEuropeEstonian National ID Cards Embrace Electronic Payment Capabilities
The Baltic country Estonia — about the population of Dallas, Texas — embraces a niche in the payment world with its use of...
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1.2KInternationalPayPal Wants to Boost eCommerce in the Middle East
PayPal announced that they will partner with Cairo Amman Bank to help boost ecommmerce.
