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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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1.1KAccounts PayableDeep Dive: How Automation Can Disrupt Legacy AP Practices
Paper-based processes are widely used in AP departments, with recent PYMNTS data finding that 80.8 percent of firms use paper checks while...
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2.5KFaster PaymentsThe Push And Pull Of Real-Time Payments
With real-time payments spreading throughout the world (perhaps more slowly than expected, but still spreading), the characteristics of pull payments mean they...
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2.4KAccounts PayableUMB Bank On Freeing Businesses From Paper Checks With AP Automation
Automating accounts payable (AP) means the paper check will soon no longer be in the proverbial (and literal) mail. In the inaugural...
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3.6KCashVisa, Intuit Launch Instant Deposit For SMBs
Cash flow is that thing that can keep a business owner or executive up at night — and night after night, after...
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3.1KAccounts PayableInside UMB Bank’s AP Automation Agenda
Accounts payable (AP) departments all too often employ inefficient processes that slow down workflows, and delay supplier payments. Reliance on outdated...
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2.4KConsumer FinanceVocalink CEO: The Three Guideposts For Navigating Payments’ Evolution
The good news for customers — and the challenge for financial services players, both established and emerging as the decade comes to...
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2.3KCommerce ConnectedXevo CEO: Why OEMs Will Win The Race For The Connected Car’s Future
More than a century of automotive culture has brought many exiting eras. Think about how the affordable Ford Model T opened up...
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4.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWhat’s The Best Way To Navigate The New World Of Payments?
These are indeed the days for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world of payments, and that trend looks likely to hold...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsTrade Finance Gets Boost Via Banks, APIs
HSBC debuts a new API geared toward trade finance. Separately, cross-border payments embrace business payments using XRP. In Russia, eight banks sign on...
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1.2KDisbursementsWhy Paper Checks Continue To Dominate Online Rebates
Checks are still used for 75 percent of rebate payouts, but the tide may finally be turning. Online rebate providers are experimenting...
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4.0KDisbursementsRakuten On Growing Demand For Instant Rebates
Consumers are no longer willing to wait for even the simplest of disbursements. Whether they’re waiting to receive government payments, wages or...
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3.7KFaster PaymentsPayments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Faster payments are quickly being embraced by consumers, and are on track to gain traction across C2B, B2C and B2B transactions. Mike Kresse,...
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1.4KRetailPizza Heats Up Fresh Innovation In The Retail World
Everyone loves pizza, save, perhaps, for communists and nihilists. Okay, that’s not the best joke ever from the PYMNTS Bureau of Stand-Up...
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3.0KPayment MethodsInstant Payments Are Here — How To Measure The ROI…
There are many ways a firm can measure the value of instant payments, and determine how much of a return on investment...
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1.9KWearablesFibank, Mastercard Team For Garmin Pay Transactions In Bulgaria
First Investment Bank (Fibank), Mastercard and Garmin have partnered for the Garmin Pay watch in Bulgaria, Fibank announced in a press release...
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2.8KPayment MethodsVisa’s CyberSource Teams With Sezzle On Installment Payments
Installment payment solution company Sezzle has teamed up with Visa’s CyberSource payment management platform to offer consumers interest-free “buy now, pay later”...
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2.8KPayment MethodsKlarna Surpasses 12M Transactions This Year
FinTech payments disruptor Klarna has announced the start of its “No drama, just Klarna” retail campaign in partnership with 13 brands in...
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2.4KPayment MethodsWestern Union Says New Platform Strategy To Drive Growth, Higher Margins
Western Union Company is meeting with investors and analysts about strategy updates and its three-year financial outlook, the company said in a...
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5.7KDigital PaymentsAmex Launches Pay By Bank
American Express announced it is planning to roll out a new real-time product that will let U.K. consumers pay for goods and...
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2.0KInnovationStarbucks Consumers In Japan Can Pay With NCF Pen
Starbucks has announced the release of an actual pen that consumers can use to pay at the register in Japan, according to...
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4.8KPayment MethodsWalmart Launches New Rewards Credit Cards With Cap One
Walmart has announced it is teaming up with Capital One on a new credit card to be released on Sept. 24, according...
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2.5KRetailAthletic Subscription Boxes Run On Curation
The plethora of merchandise and accessories in the athletic market can be overwhelming for new runners. In addition to buying a pair...
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4.1KPayments InnovationNew Report: How Consumers Use Connected Devices To Shop And Pay
Voice is connected commerce’s killer app. That is just one of five critical findings highlighted in How We Will Pay 2019, a PYMNTS, Visa collaboration...
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10.0KCommerce ConnectedWhat The Trendsetters Say About How We Will Pay Next Decade
Sheep are not natural-born leaders. If they were, they wouldn’t need border collies or sheepherders to make sure that they didn’t follow...
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2.1KApple PayApple Card Users To Get 3 Pct Cash Back At Walgreens
Customers using the Apple Card with Apple Pay to purchase goods and prescriptions at Walgreens will get 3 percent cash back, Walgreens said...
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2.8KInternationalNew PayU Mobile App Gives Merchants Total Account Access
PayU, a FinTech based in the Netherlands, has released an app for merchants in India that allows them to keep track of...
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5.4KPayment MethodsVisa Powers MoneyGram Push-To-Card P2P
MoneyGram and Visa Direct have formed a strategic partnership to roll out a new debit card deposit service, the companies announced in...
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4.4KFaster PaymentsThe Quick And Quiet Evolution Of Insurance Toward Instant Payments
Hurricane Dorian may be officially over, but for those in the Southeastern United States and the Bahamas, the rebuild is just getting...
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3.5KRetailGroupon’s Discount Medical Scans Raises Controversy
Groupon is selling body scans and ultrasounds in a move that highlights the state of modern healthcare, according to a report by...
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2.4KDebtCiti Ups Credit Card Game With No-Interest Credit Transfer
Even as the economy in the United States softens, Citigroup has been making a push for credit cards. The company is said...
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1.7KInvestmentsIndia’s FPL Technologies Lands $4.5M To Modernize Credit
FPL Technologies, an Indian startup that is less than a year old, has raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by...
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3.3KAmazonCan Amazon Give Biometric Payments A Hand — In The Store?
Biometric payments are making another run at the grocery store, this time at the hands or Amazon. Or, to be more precise,...
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5.4KeCommerceThe Three Golden Rules Of Growing Global Marketplaces
Gaining scale as a marketplace is, by-and-large, a good thing. It’s a sign that one has successfully found a way to reach...
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3.4KPayment MethodsAfterpay’s ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Option Adds New Merchants
Afterpay, a company that specializes in allowing shoppers to have the option to “Buy Now, Pay Later,” has partnered with J.Crew and...
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3.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Venezuelan Department Stores To Launch Blockchain POS; Blockchain Analysis Firm Debuts Real-Time Fraud Alerts
Blockchain firm Pundi X has announced that Venezuela’s largest chain of department stores will implement the XPOS, the blockchain-powered point-of-sale device, across...
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2.8KRetailRewriting Rewards Around Consumer Behavior
In theory, a rewards program tied to customer loyalty is a totally logical acquisition tool. Customers prone to come in anyway are...
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4.5KDigital PaymentsJapan’s LINE Pay Starts WeChat Pay Partnership
Japan’s LINE Pay has announced that it’s been integrating WeChat Pay to be used by participating merchants in the country, according to...
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3.5KDigital PaymentsP2P Payments Find Fresh Fuel As The 2020s Loom
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments are blazing a hotter path in the digital economy as the second half of 2019 gets underway – and...
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4.2KPayment MethodsPayPal Invests In Staffing, Acquisitions And Payment Tech In India
As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450...
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3.3KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: New Zealand Allows Crypto Wages; SEC Postpones Bitcoin Funds Decision
New Zealand has become the first country to legally allow wages to be paid in cryptocurrencies. The ruling excludes the self-employed from...
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4.0KPayment MethodsTech Glitch Halts Card Processing For Some Mexico Merchants
Shops in Mexico started asking customers to pay with cash after several of the country’s biggest banks started having issues handling debit...
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5.1KDigital PaymentsGoogle Pay Removes Support For Visa Checkout
Visa is moving toward discontinuing its Visa Checkout service sometime next year, according to reports. It appears the company’s service, which was...
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3.2KThe WeekenderBig Merger, Big Hacking And Need For Big App Dominates Week’s News
The dog days are summer are here – and so is the end of another busy week in payments and commerce. In...
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2.1KPayment MethodsWhy Regional Payment Preferences Matter For Global Subscriptions
Cross-border recurring payments are subject to the double whammy of facilitating local currency and all of the challenges that come with subscription...
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4.1KPayment MethodsCan Uber Change The Subscription Game Too?
You have probably noticed, but in case you haven’t, let’s just state the blunt truth: When it comes to subscription commerce, one...
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3.5KPayment MethodsWhatsApp Moves Payments From Pilot To Rollout In India
Following a year-long pilot, WhatsApp is now officially introducing a payments utility in India. The Facebook-owned messaging app is responding to the...
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2.2KDeliveryBacklash Prompts DoorDash To Change Tip Disbursements
Amid public retaliation, DoorDash is abandoning its questionable pay model, and will now increase driver earnings by the exact amount a customer...
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2.6KPayments InnovationThe Platform Economy Evolves To Become More Personalized
The platform economy is being transformed by an increased demand for faster payments bolstered by mobile usage, according to the latest Payments...
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4.1KPayment MethodsNevada Marijuana Dispensary Uses Food Trucks To Sidestep Cards Regs
No one would ever mistake a marijuana dispensary for a food truck, but that is what one shop in Reno, NV calls...
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3.0KPayment MethodsAmex Write-Off Rate Is Down; Delinquency Rate Holds
American Express has reported that its American consumer card delinquency rate was 1.4 percent for June, the same number it was in...
