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1.2KEMVMore Than Half Of Cards Issued Globally Were EMV-Enabled
Data from EMVCo shows that 54.6 percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the...
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910Payment MethodsGoogle Pay Now Installed More Than 100 Million Times
Google’s redesign of Google Pay, its digital payment service, appears to be paying off — the company passed the 100 million mark...
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1.7KPayment MethodsMastercard: Secure Remote Commerce Will Accelerate Unified Digital Checkout
It’s easy to take for granted how consistent in-store payments with cards have become for consumers; there isn’t a lot of mystery...
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1.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal Teams With ebizmarts To Integrate With Magento
PayPal is working with point-of-sale (POS) company ebizmarts to help retailers offer both POS and digital payments. According to news from Mobile Payments Today, PayPal’s...
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1.7KPayment MethodsPaya President: Integrated Payments And What Matters Most
Buy vs. build -- or partner? The lines between software companies and payments firms are blurring, which means strategy must change, too....
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1.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPaysafe To Buy iPayment As It Expands In North America
Paysafe, a global payments provider, announced Friday (April 13) that it has inked a deal to acquire iPayment Holdings, the provider of...
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2.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsLendingPoint Partners With TabaPay To Accept Debit Cards For Loan Payments
LendingPoint announced it has entered into an agreement with TabaPay that will allow it to accept debit cards for loan payments. Through...
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2.9KMerchant InnovationAmex Rolls Out New Global Branding Campaign
On Monday (April 9), American Express unveiled a new global brand platform and marketing campaign dubbed “Powerful Backing: Don’t Do Business / Don’t...
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3.2KMobile PaymentsKenyans Can Now Connect M-PESA Accounts To PayPal
PayPal and Safaricom announced a new collaboration that will enable people living in Kenya to move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts....
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2.5KInnovationParking Smartly, With Sense And Sensors
The hunt for a parking space is never easy, with time idly spent as cars and trucks and vans idle, watching and...
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1.3KToday In DataThe Many Paths For Aiding And Abetting Access
The key to success is often access to the right thing at the right time. That might be salary, which is why...
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1.4KDisbursementsHow The Gig Economy Is Making Disbursement Tools More Important
There are many ways to quickly hail a ride through platforms such as Uber — or have a freelancer complete a task through...
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2.8KDisbursementsCan Push Payments Help Banks Find An Alt Lending Edge?
Consumers can pay in real time, Lisa McFarland, EVP and Chief Product Officer for Ingo Money - but when it is time...
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2.9KRidesharingUber Rolls Out Branded Card For Drivers, Delivery Partners
Uber, the ride-hailing company, announced news on Tuesday (April 3) of the launch of its Uber Visa Debit Card from GoBank. In...
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5.2KRidesharingUrgent.ly To Offer Roadside Assistance To Uber Drivers, Delivery Partners
Urgent.ly, the roadside assistance platform, announced news on Tuesday (April 3) that it partnered with Uber to provide roadside assistance to its...
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2.5KPayment MethodsRussian Payments Service Yandex.Checkout Launches Credit Service For Online Shoppers
Russia’s largest payments service, Yandex.Checkout, announced that online stores can now subscribe to a new service that allows merchants to sell goods...
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1.1KDigital PaymentsSome Swedes Contend Cashless Society Puts The Country At Risk
While most Swedes have embraced the movement toward a cashless society, there is a growing number who are worried about the rush,...
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2.1KMobile PaymentsSquare’s Cash App Comes To The UK
Square announced on Tuesday (April 3) that its peer-to-peer (P2P) Cash app is now available in the U.K. According to news from MarketWatch, the...
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2.3KFaster PaymentsFast Royalty Advances Keep The Music Playing
The global music industry is expected to generate $57 billion in 2021. But those artists creating the songs can struggle to stay afloat while waiting for...
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2.3KFinancial InclusionPetal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards
For the 47 percent of Americans with prime credit scores, getting and using a credit card isn’t much of a problem. The...
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2.6KPayment MethodsHow Co-Branded Credit Cards Evolved From The Early 1900s Department Store
In the early 1900s, department stores came up with a novel idea to help their customers pay for their purchases: Customers could...
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1.7KAlexaAmazon’s Alexa Now Makes Donations
Amazon has added a new skill to its voice-activated, artificially intelligent digital assistant Alexa: enabling people to make donations to charities via...
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2.6KToday In DataAround The World With Payment Methods
It’s a big world out there, but it’s also a world that technology and digitization are gradually making smaller by connecting people...
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3.4KCryptocurrencyTelegram Raises $1.7 Billion So Far With ICO
Telegram, the Dubai-based messaging app company, has added $850 million to the amount it has raised via an initial coin offering, bringing...
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7.8KVISAVisa Names The 50 Winners Of Visa Cashless Challenge
Visa, the payments company, announced Thursday (March 29) the 50 winners of the Visa Cashless Challenge, in which small businesses in the...
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3.6KSecurity & FraudMalaysia Central Bank Says It Stopped Hack Via SWIFT
Malaysia’s central bank announced Thursday (March 29) that it was the subject of a cyber attack in which hackers aimed to steal...
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4.7KBlockchainCutting Through The Blockchain Fog
Is there a buzzier word than blockchain? Attempting to cleave hype from hope and reality from the headlines, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster spoke...
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2.2KPayment MethodsSquare On Canadian Merchants And Cash(less) Payments
Today’s average Canadian consumer is more cash-enthused than their average American counterpart. Canadians still make about 51 percent of their purchases in cash,...
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2.0KInternationalWalmart Taps WeChat For Western Region Of China In A Blow To Alipay
In what is seen as a blow to Alipay, Walmart inked a deal with rival Tencent Holdings to use WeChat Pay, its...
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3.5KPayment MethodsWhatsApp To Support Payments Via QR Code
WhatsApp, the messaging app that has a payments component, is expanding the payments types it supports by rolling out the ability to...
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3.0KCryptocurrencyCryptos And Coffee May Not Blend
Double whip-less mochaccino, half-caff: $6.00. Paying for it in bitcoin: $21 (at the current processing fee). This is why many experts are...
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1.5KPayment MethodsSantander Uses Ripple To Power Cross-Border Money Transfer
Santander, the Spanish bank, is gearing up to roll out an international money transfer app thanks to a partnership with blockchain FinTech...
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2.9KBlockchainJPMorgan To Spin Off Quorum, Its Blockchain Project
JPMorgan Chase could spin off its main blockchain project, Quorum, after deciding the efforts would be better off in the home of...
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1.2KVISAVisa Expands Visa’s Everywhere Initiative To The US
Visa, the payments company, announced an expansion of its Visa Everywhere Initiative for 2018, adding new participating countries, including the U.S. In...
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3.4KInternationalPPRO: The 10 Fastest Growing Global eCommerce Markets
It’s an exciting time to be a global brand. In western markets, eCommerce continues to grow steadily — but, more importantly, it’s...
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3.3KRetailShopify: Online’s Biggest Liability Is A Friction-Filled Checkout
After two decades of online commerce, Mohammad Hashemi, General Manager of Financial Services at Shopify told Karen Webster, online checkout shouldn’t be...
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3.3KToday In DataA Tisket, A Tasket, Building Stronger Shopping Baskets
The U.S. Census Bureau claims 92 percent of retail still happens in a store, but those who’ve really been paying attention over...
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2.9KLatin AmericaAlipay Partners With Openpay In Mexico
Pushing its footprint even deeper into the Americas, Ant Financial’s Alipay — China’s leading payment provider and the primary means of online and mobile payment...
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2.3KPayment MethodsFlutterwave Taps Flywire For Cross-Border Payments In Africa
Flywire, a provider of global payment and receivables solutions for education, healthcare, and business, announced Tuesday (March 20) that it has inked...
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2.7KMobile CommerceBuilding Bridges For Chinese Consumers To U.S. Commerce
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 2.97 million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending...
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2.8KNewsTopic TBD: Channeling The Right Channel Partner Strategy
How to channel the right channel partner strategy? After all, the right relationship is everything, especially in business. The fact was underscored...
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1.8KBitcoinPlattsburgh Temporarily Halts Bitcoin Mining As It Raises Electricity Costs
Plattsburgh, the small upstate New York town, has placed a temporary halt on cryptocurrency mining in an effort to preserve natural resources,...
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2.8KSubscriptionsLyft Takes A Page From Netflix, Tests Monthly Subscriptions
Ride-hailing company Lyft is reportedly testing the availability of monthly subscription plans for customers who use the service a lot. Citing comments...
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7.3KBitcoinVisa CFO No Fan Of Cryptocurrency As An Investment
Visa’s Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu is no fan of cryptocurrency, arguing in an interview with the Financial Times that digital tokens...
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2.5KPayment MethodsRBR Expects Payment Card Acceptance To Increase 40 Percent By 2022
Thanks in part to new regulations and an increase in financial literacy, RBR projects that payment card acceptance will jump 40 percent...
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5.3KSecurity & FraudHackers Behind Prilex POS Malware Using Stolen Data To Make Functional Cards
Kaspersky Lab, the security company, announced Thursday (March 15) that researchers have discovered the hacking group behind the Prilex point-of-sale (POS) malware...
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3.4KRetailTo See Retail’s Future, Go Back To The Basics
The retail revolution will be digitized. But how to get to the revolution in the first place when you might already be...
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1.8KStartup Check-InFreelancer Payment Satisfaction Drives Loyalty
Three quarters of freelancers said they would leave their current marketplace due to payment dissatisfaction. That’s according to a recent survey by...
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3.2KDigital BankingBillMo And Walmart Do Money For People Who Don’t Trust Banks
Moving money across country lines is rarely easy or cheap, and that’s especially true in countries with large un- and under-banked populations,...
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4.0KStartupsRipple Wants To Invest In Startups That Can Advance XRP
Ripple, the blockchain payments company, is gearing up to invest in startups and technology firms that create more uses for its cryptocurrency...
