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What is a payment method? Well there are many, debit, credit, ACH, blockchain, and cross border. There are also many other way to transact through the wires.
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156RetailHow Ghost Kitchens Are Altering The QSR Landscape
As more consumers place their food orders through digital channels, eateries are adapting to the tastes of diners who want to enjoy...
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318Payments InnovationVenmo Launches Animated Custom Stickers For App Users
As of today (Jan. 21), users of cash-sending app Venmo will have the ability to send animated custom stickers through the app’s...
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686DisbursementsHow Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
More than 90 percent of U.S. consumers now prefer to receive digital payments over paper checks. Cash and checks persist as the...
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706Payment MethodsIndian Telecom Provider Reliance Jio To Roll Out UPI Payments
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio, the largest in the country, is entering the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) space to compete alongside rivals,...
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2.5KRetailAfterpay CEO: How ‘Contact Us’ And The Kardashians Ignited Afterpay In The US
Never underestimate the value of the “Contact Us” form that every merchant and service provider places somewhere on its website — because...
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3.1KRetailFiserv: What The 2019 Holiday Shopping Data Says About 2020 Spend
’Tis the season for … looking back at 2019 holiday sales trends, and figuring out what they mean for payments and commerce...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsWhere Faster Payments Fits Between B2B Buyers And Suppliers
Accounts payable (AP) automation technology has hit the ground running, with solutions designed to accelerate invoice processing, optimize payment strategies and promote...
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2.7KSecurity & FraudAttempted Check Fraud Spiked 43 Pct. In Two Years
An uptick in check fraud has financial institutions considering whether they should update methods and stop using checks, according to a report...
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1.9KPayment MethodsCommuters In India Will Soon Need Only One Transport Payment Card
Metro authorities in India are planning to launch automatic fare collection (AFC) gates that will work with the country’s National Common Mobility...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsWhen Email Becomes SMBs’ Biggest Security Threat
The business email compromise (BEC) scam is a cybersecurity threat to businesses of all sizes, and the financial and security implications of...
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2.6KSMBsNew Data: 75 Pct. Of SMBs Say Slow Settlement Creates Cash Flow Crises
Small businesses play a vital role in the U.S. economy. There are more than 30 million companies that employ less than 500...
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1.4KSubscriptionsRecurring Payments: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Whether it’s a monthly box of shaving stuff delivered to your door or a license for cloud-based collaboration software, subscriptions are a...
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2.0KPayment MethodsTwitter Rumored To Be Considering In-Tweet Tipping
Twitter could be working on a way to “tip” people on the social media platform, though the company has so far denied...
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1.3KPayment MethodsUK Gambling Watchdog Outlaws Credit Card Bets
In an effort to rein in problem gambling, the U.K. Gambling Commission is banning the use of credit cards for placing bets,...
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3.6KPayment MethodsVisa Says Tokenized Transactions Set To Hit $1T, Sets Click-to-Pay Transition
For tokenized payments, $1 trillion and counting. Visa said on Tuesday (Jan. 14) that participants in its Visa Token Service are poised...
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2.8KTravel PaymentsTravel Meets Connected Commerce
By 2021 – about a year from now – over 20 percent of all payments globally will be made with a mobile...
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3.2KLegalThe Instant Verdict Is In For Legal Disbursements
The fact that instant disbursements are overwhelmingly preferred by consumers isn’t much of a surprise. When stacked up against a paper check,...
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8.7KMobile PaymentsVisa Tap To Phone Expands POS Acceptance For Retailers
The mobile point of sale (mPOS) landscape got more interesting today (Jan. 12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an...
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1.6KAuthenticationNRF Warns Against EMV Verification Flaws
While the expanding adoption of EMV cards in the U.S. has helped to largely eliminate card-present counterfeit fraud at the physical point...
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1.4KPayment MethodsIn Subscription Commerce, Seconds Matter
Make sign-ups fast, trials free and features rich. These are some of the quick takes from the latest PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Conversion...
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3.3KCommerce ConnectedAirbnb: How To Win The $1.4T Battle For Millennials
Airlines, hotels and homesharing platforms need strategies to satisfy the travel needs of four generations of jetsetters, each with different payment and...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsMobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
Square‘s mobile card reader undoubtedly made a significant impact on the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market, and kick-started a slew of recent innovations...
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4.5KTravel PaymentsTaking The Adventure Out Of Paying For Adventure Travel
You may not have noticed, but travel is becoming much more than just packing the family into a car or plane to...
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3.7KCryptocurrencyLibra Chair Says Bitcoin Is Not A Payment System
Dante Disparte, vice chairman of the Libra Association, spoke at the Digital Money Forum at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las...
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2.9KPayment MethodsNew Year’s Bug Takes NYC Parking Meters Offline
Parking meters in New York City won’t take credit cards because they weren’t programmed to get card payments after Jan. 1, 2020,...
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1.8KDigital PaymentsGraduating To Faster Payments
Grade schools and colleges could use a massive textbook dedicated to payments – their own. Any parent of school-age kids has experienced...
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4.0KRetailAmazon Or Walmart? Who Won 2019’s Race For The Consumer’s Whole Paycheck
A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths...
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1.9KInternationalRBI Enables UPI Payments For Tolls
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made some payment moves to boost the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) in the country,...
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4.9KInnovationFour Payments Ideas That Had A Breakout 2019
Ignition of a new technology or idea in payments and commerce is always something of a tricky balancing act because consumers need...
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4.3KCommentaryRing Out, Wild Thoughts
The PYMNTS Christmas poem (with heavy assistance from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ring Out, Wild Bells”) Ring out, wild thoughts, to a decade new,...
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6.4KPayment Methods12 Ways Consumers Will Pay (And Be Paid) In 2020
Past is prologue. For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019),...
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3.6KRetailWhat’s Under The Millennial Christmas Tree This Year?
All that’s left now, more or less, is the rush of returns that will all but overwhelm some retailers. Christmas Eve is...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsPaystand Inks Digital Payment Platform Deal With JCB
Blockchain-enabled commercial payments platform Paystand entered into an initial partnership with JCB to offer the first end-to-end digital payments platform for JCB...
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3.1KPayment MethodsFinTech Startup Curve Launches P2P Payments Feature
Curve, a banking app that consolidates all of a person’s bank cards into one card and app, is launching a new feature...
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1.9KDisbursementsUsing Digital Disbursements To Shake Up The Legal World
Plaintiffs can sometimes wait years for legal settlements to be decided, then even longer for the paper check to arrive in the...
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2.8KRetailGiving Layaway A Digital Reboot
In the 1930s, in the era of the Great Depression, when consumers had little extra cash, retailers nationwide came up with an...
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2.5KPayment MethodsFed Data: Non-Cash Payments Grow 6.7 Pct Per Year From 2015-2018
With the ongoing decline of checks, the growth of payments by debit and credit cards continued to speed up from 2015 to...
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1.5KPayments InnovationLegal Disbursements And The Paper Chase
The third decade of the 21st century is dawning with self-driving cars, the ability to rent almost anything and, best of all,...
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1.4KRetailKlarna Looks To Roll Out In Australia, Other Markets Next Year
Following a formidable start for its “buy now, pay later” service in the United States, Klarna intends to roll out in Australia and...
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4.3KSecurity & FraudDoing Battle With Holiday Fraudsters At The ATM
The holiday season is in full swing. That means opening up wallets and purses at the point of sale, which often means...
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3.1KAlternative FinancesKlarna Chief Claims Six Million New Customers Per Year
The CEO of online split payments company Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, gave a lengthy interview to a news outlet about the future of...
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2.7KPayment MethodsMobile Card Apps: The Future Isn’t Plastic
It took 70 years for a majority of U.S. adults to possess a credit card, so the warp-speed adoption of mobile card...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsCannabis Shows Early Signs Of Late Supplier Payments Struggle
The gradual legalization of cannabis in the U.S. and elsewhere has opened up an opportunity not only for new businesses to form,...
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1.6KPayment MethodsBuy Now, Pay Later: Cure For The Credit Hangover?
Heard about this Australia thing? “Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) alternatives made a big splash there in late 2018, had their moment...
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1.8KPayment MethodsLast Roar Of The Paper Tiger?
What if you heard that over 70 percent of decision-makers in your industry had begun settling accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable...
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1.8KToday In DataConsumers Increasingly In The ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Mood
The holidays are here, and that means wallets and purses spring open. Debt loads have been getting heavier too. And among those who...
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2.3KPayment MethodsFed Study: Electronic Devices Used In 24 Pct. Of Consumer Payments
Cards over cash – specifically, debit cards over cash. Among the findings of the recent 2018 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, produced...
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2.0KNext-Gen PaymentsHow Truckers Keep On Transacting
America’s 3.5 million truckers face serious delays when they can’t easily pay for fuel and cargo-unloading services. Carrying cash isn’t always safe,...
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2.0KBuy Now Pay LaterCan Buy Now Pay Later Solutions Cut Through The Holiday Noise?
U.S. consumers are expected to spend roughly $149 billion online this holiday season — but many are still paying off credit card...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsAccuity To Power GoCardless’ Recurring Payments Expansion Into US
Global FinTech GoCardless entered into a collaboration with payments firm Accuity to launch a seamless way for businesses to collect payments in...
