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Top News In Payments: Zelle Transaction Volumes Reach $49B; WeChat Pay Launches New Smartphone Feature
Top News In Payments: Zelle Transaction Volumes Reach $49B; WeChat Pay Launches New Smartphone Feature
October 23, 2019  |  News

In today’s payments news, Zelle’s third-quarter results show that transaction volume increased by 73 percent. Also, Tencent’s WeChat Pay is launching a new payment function that allows people to...

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Visa On Launch Of Infinite Business For High-Spending SMBs
Visa On Launch Of Infinite Business For High-Spending SMBs
October 23, 2019  |  VISA

Visa is rolling out a new card product suite focused on small businesses (SMBs) — more specifically, high-spending SMBs. David Simon, Visa’s senior vice president...

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Mastercard: How Payment On Delivery, Request To Pay Will Ignite Real Time Payments
Mastercard: How Payment On Delivery, Request To Pay Will Ignite Real Time Payments
October 23, 2019  |  Mastercard

The U.S. is readying for real time, as far as infrastructure is concerned. Mastercard hopes to spur B2B and C2B adoption of real-time transactions through,...

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Why ZenKey Authentication Is A Good Idea – With A Big Design Flaw
Why ZenKey Authentication Is A Good Idea – With A Big Design Flaw
October 23, 2019  |  Authentication

Five years ago, a merchant might have been able to rely on consumers being patient with a digital commerce experience that was less than perfectly...

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Why Better POS Is Vital To Saving SMB Retail
Why Better POS Is Vital To Saving SMB Retail
October 23, 2019  |  POS Innovation

New Orleans, home to the PYMNTS Bureau of Temperate Winter, is loved and sometimes reviled for being behind the times on many things. That can...

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Visa: She’s Next Initiative Goes Global
Visa: She’s Next Initiative Goes Global
October 22, 2019  |  VISA

In early 2019, Visa launched the “She’s Next, Empowered by Visa” initiative to boost women-owned small businesses (SMBs) around the world through shared research, experience...

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Where Restaurants Now Look To Boost Margins, Drive More Sales
Where Restaurants Now Look To Boost Margins, Drive More Sales
October 22, 2019  |  ResTech

The back-end operations of a restaurant are not for the faint of heart. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Why Merchant Services Are Key To Small FI Deposit Growth
Why Merchant Services Are Key To Small FI Deposit Growth
October 22, 2019  |  Digital Banking

This developing world of payments and the fierce competition offered by non-traditional providers of financial services presents big challenges to smaller and community banks –...

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For Wells Fargo’s New CEO Scharf, The Long List Of To-Dos Looms Large
For Wells Fargo’s New CEO Scharf, The Long List Of To-Dos Looms Large
October 22, 2019  |  Personnel

Day One is over. For Charles Scharf, who has taken the reins as CEO of Wells Fargo, the list of what needs fixing — and what...

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