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1.6KDigital 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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2.5KPayment 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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2.3KBitcoinBitcoin 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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3.0KPayment 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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4.2KDigital 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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2.7KThe 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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1.4KPayment 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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3.5KPayment 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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3.0KPayment 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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1.7KDeliveryBacklash 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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2.1KPayments 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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3.5KPayment 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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2.3KPayment 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...
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1.6KPayments InnovationHow B2C Companies Tap Into Integrated Receivables
Companies in the business-to-consumer (B2C) space have historically relied on lockbox processing through a bank – or a series of banks, depending...
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5.7KCryptocurrencyThe 4 Key Clues To Understanding The Future Of Facebook’s Libra
It’s been a little over two weeks since we all got our first look at Libra and Calibra. No doubt there will...
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2.2KPayment MethodsOld Habits Die Hard For Accounts Payable
Accounts payable (AP) professionals often use established — if unsatisfactory and possibly outdated — payment methods, mostly because that’s just the way...
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2.9KAuthenticationThe Government As Catalyst To Innovating Digital ID
The ongoing and complicated work to build better digital identification systems for commerce and payments involves a host of players. The government...
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2.5KDigital PaymentsWhy Contactless Payments Are This Summer’s Big Music Headliner
Cruise ships and musical festivals are not that different from each other, not these days. Both feature large crowds of generally like-minded...
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1.6KRetailWhy The Louisiana Purchase Was The Greatest Fourth Of July Sale Ever
The Fourth of July is not a shopping holiday, per se — not to say the U.S. will not spend a fair...
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2.1KDigital PaymentsAdyen Now Enables Interac Debit Mobile Payments In Canada
On the heels of its Canadian launch last year, Adyen announced the addition of Interac Debit on Mobile for in-browser and in-app as...
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2.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSwish Teams With Nets To Test In-Store Mobile Payments
Payments company Nets announced that it is partnering with Swish, the number one payments app in Sweden, on an in-store payments pilot...
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4.3KAccounts PayableSix Payment Methods AP Departments Like More Than Paper Checks
When it comes time to pay suppliers, most accounts payable (AP) professionals will use whichever payment method they need to get the...
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2.5KCryptocurrencyFacebook’s Global Libra Push Involves Many Regulatory Hurdles
Despite the obvious regulatory hurdles that Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency is facing, the company is moving forward with its plan to provide...
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5.5KCryptocurrencyIf Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?
Have you overdosed on Libra coverage yet? And it’s not even been two whole weeks. Facebook’s launch of Libra on June 18...
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2.9KAutomated RetailFarmhouse Market’s Remotely Operated, 24/7 Grocery Store
Self-serve stores are fast and convenient, but what’s stopping consumers from taking more than what they buy? Enabling 24/7 access to staff-free...
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2.4KRetailUnattended Retail Stumbles In China, But Global Growth Continues
Unattended retail is having a moment – a bad moment, as it turns out, in China, according to reports. The challenges there...
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2.4KRetailWhen Clothing Shopping Is All About The Experience
In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these...
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3.2KRetailWalmart Expands EBT Grocery Card Acceptance Online
Walmart will now accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to pay for online grocery orders at all of its pickup locations, according...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsThe Logistics Of Paying Warehouses Electronically
Paper throws a wrench in accounts receivable processes for many companies. Logistics, however, often faces a few extra challenges when companies like...
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2.5KGoogleGoogle Pay Now Supports PayPal
Google Pay has added PayPal integration for merchants, according to reports. “We’re thrilled to announce we’ve expanded our collaboration with PayPal to...
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1.7KHealthcarePayment Plans Could Propel Elective Medical Procedures
Elective medical procedures — specific medical services consumers want or require, but that are not covered in full by their current insurance...
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4.1KMastercardMastercard Introduces True Name Card
To address a major pain point for the LGBTQIA+ community, Mastercard is introducing the True Name card. The product will allow for...
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1.9KGlobal PaymentsAlipay’s Many European Plays
That Alipay is moving into Europe — and looking to support the millions of Chinese and Southeast Asian tourists who travel there...
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1.4KToday In DataBringing Speed And Digitization To Payments
Few companies meet customer demand for instant business-to-consumer (B2C) payments, while a large share of businesses still rely on paper checks for business-to-business (B2B) payments....
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3.2KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: FDA Pegs Walmart, IBM For Blockchain Pilot; Wyoming State Embraces Blockchain
IBM, KPMG, Merck, and Walmart announced that they have been selected by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a...
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2.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsTrustly And PayWithMyBank Merge For Europe-to-US Payments
European online banking payments provider Trustly has merged with Silicon Valley online banking payments company PayWithMyBank, according to a blog post by...
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1.7KInternationalRevolut Expands Beta Version Into Australia
Financial technology company Revolut has ventured beyond Europe and into Australia as of Thursday (June 13), according to a report. However, it...
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1.8KBitcoinCoinbase Expands Crypto Debit Product To EU
Digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that its Visa debit card is now available in six additional European countries. The company debuted the...
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2.5KDigital PaymentsApple Pay Adds Support For Netherlands, Revolut Users
Apple Pay has added support for users in the Netherlands and also expanded services for Revolut users, according to reports. The service...
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3.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCiti Teams With Grab On Co-Branded Credit Cards
Citigroup is teaming up with Grab, the ride-hailing startup out of Singapore, to roll out co-branded credit cards. Reuters, citing Gonzalo Luchetti,...
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5.8KVISAVisa Launches Visa B2B Connect In 30+ Markets
Almost two years in the making, Visa B2B Connect makes its official launch, with a rollout across 30 countries. Kevin Phalen, head of...
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2.7KMastercardMastercard’s Digital Wellness Suite: Curing What Ails Digital Checkout
Mastercard unveils its Digital Wellness suite, which seeks to level the playing field for small and independent merchants when it comes to...
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2.3KBitcoinIn C2B, Is It Bitcoin’s Time To Shine?
Beyond the vagaries of bitcoin’s volatile price, is the digital currency ready for prime time — as a means for consumers to...
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2.8KToday In DataHelping Money Make The World Go ‘Round
Money, as the song goes, makes the world go ‘round – and these days, there is a lot of money going all...
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3.7KRetailIs The US On The Verge Of A Contactless Surge?
Near-field communication (NFC) technology isn’t exactly new. For some time now, retailers have been using it and radio frequency identification (RIFD) behind...
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3.2KAccounts PayableAccounts Payables’ Integrated Payoff
Integrated accounts payable (AP) management can streamline costs and efficiencies where executives grapple with paper-based processes. Jessica Moran, general manager of Paymode-X Business...
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3.4KPayment MethodsWild Cards? eGaming, Payroll, Credit, Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid
Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them...
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6.6KSecurity & FraudStripe Launches Chargeback Protection Service
Stripe, the payments company, announced Monday (June 2) the launch of Chargeback Protection, a new service that provides customers with machine learning-based...
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3.6KPayment MethodsWestern Union’s Playbook For Balancing Cash And Digital Payments
Despite the dreams and expectations among all kinds of people during the rise of eCommerce and digital payments, cash isn’t really going...
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2.8KCashIs Sweden Proof There Is Such A Thing As Too Much Digital Payment Success?
Usually when we’re telling a story at PYMNTS about expectations for a product being radically divergent from its actual performance, it is...
