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600Mobile PaymentsWorldpay Finds Contactless Payments Surpass Chip, Pin Card Purchases
Worldpay, the payment technology company, announced Tuesday (Oct. 16) that for the first time, contactless payments have become more popular than chip...
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1.1KPayments InnovationBoost Launches Dynamic Interchange Rates To Push B2B Card Acceptance
Card acceptance is relatively low in B2B as suppliers balk at interchange fees. Boost Payment Solutions is rolling out Dynamic Boost, to...
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1.2KRetailNEW DATA: Why Two-Thirds Of Small Merchants Struggle To Innovate
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must possess a long list of attributes if they want to stay competitive in today’s day and...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsMastercard Rounds Out SMB Services In India With Zoho
Small business (SMB) cloud solutions provider Zoho is reportedly teaming up with Mastercard in India to provide holistic accounts receivable solutions. A...
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1.7KRetailCVS Rolls Out Support For Apple Pay
Months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said CVS would be accepting Apple Pay, the retailer has brought support for the mobile wallet...
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1.8KVISAVisa, Olympic Committee Pair On Integrated Payments
Visa has announced that it is partnering with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to offer enhanced...
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1.5KGlobal PaymentsSmartPesa Rolls Out Android POS System; Vipps Selects Inside Secure For Payment Security
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Norway’s Vipps selection of Inside Secure...
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3.0KMobile PaymentsPayPal Cash Now Available At Walmart Stores
PayPal said Thursday that it is teaming up with Walmart to deliver financial services to joint customers, allowing them to access cash at...
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3.2KBlockchainPundi X CEO On Dialing Up Digital Payments, Calling Up Blockchain Phones In Dubai
Well beyond bitcoin, blockchain is making inroads into the mainstream and cryptos are seeing a thaw when it comes to conducting commerce. ...
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1.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFirst Data, BlueSnap Partner On eCommerce Payment Processing
First Data, the global commerce-enabling technology company, and BlueSnap, a payments technology provider, announced on Wednesday (October 10) a partnership to combine...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsWorkers’ Union Turns To Payroll Cards Amid Fee Regulation Pressure
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year to prohibit unions from collecting fees from non-member public workers, but the government’s pressure...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsAscendantFX Makes The Case For Wire Transfer
In the battle of the payment rails, a few technologies tend to dominate the conversation. When it comes to business-to-business (B2B) transactions,...
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1.5KAPIHow Instantor Uses APIs For World Domination
Old-school FIs typically rely on outdated consumer data from credit bureaus to review a consumer’s financial viability. However, APIs can help FIs...
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3.9KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: Recreational Athletics’ Payments-Powered Assist
What’s the key to a great customer experience? For a growing group of online and mobile platforms, the answer lies in the...
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1.8KPayment MethodsToneTag CEO Sounds Off On Payments At The Speed Of Sound
Talk about cashless and contactless. How about payments made at the speed of sound — to be specific, using encrypted sound waves...
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2.3KEarningsWill Square’s Stock Drop Shift Attention To Credit Risk?
Shares of Square dropped more than 8 percent on Monday (Oct. 8), as a bear on the Street said the firm is...
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4.4KAPINEW REPORT: APIs As The Great Credit Equalizer
The rivalry that banks and FinTech firms might have experienced in the past now appears to be behind them. Both sides of...
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1.7KRetailMyPeople On Gigging With Marketplace Points
For every Thumbtack or TaskRabbit, there are smaller gig economy marketplaces that aim to provide a community feel and to tap into...
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1.3KToday In DataToday In Data: Keeping Hold Of The Slippery Digital Consumer
The good news about modern digital customers, particularly younger ones, is their consistent willingness to try new things, such as new stores and new...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsMyEG Launches Blockchain Payroll Solution
Malaysia-based MyEG Services is rolling out a new payroll solution developed on blockchain technology. Reports in The Edge Markets on Friday (Oct....
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2.4KDisbursementsWhy Gig Workers Prefer PayPal Over Direct Deposit
In the latest Disbursements Tracker, PYMNTS looks at why a growing group of gig workers and freelancers would rather be paid via...
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2.8KDigital PaymentsNJ Online Gaming Payments Rollout Shows Mixed Results
It’s a good time to be a sports gambler: Football, hockey, baseball playoffs. The upcoming Netball 2018 Sunshine Series featuring Jamaica vs....
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1.4KB2B PaymentsEasy Pickings For BEC Criminals?
The age of business email compromise (BEC) is upon us. And for the scammers, it’s not all that hard to do the scamming....
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2.9KPayment MethodsSquare Debuts Merchant Installment Payments
Square announced Thursday (October 4) the launch of Square Installments, a new service that provides sellers with access to a tool for...
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2.9KRetailThe Retail Complexities Of Wooing Bridge Millennials
The last few years have been tough on J.Crew. Sales have slipped consistently, and only showed slight signs of improvement last quarter,...
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1.8KGlobal PaymentsGlobal Payments Links With Alipay; Grab And Fave Partner To Boost Growth
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Global Payments’ tie-up with Alipay to serve...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsGetting B2B Payments Out Of The Paper Check Dark Ages
Someone needs to write an epic poem about the paper check. Love it or hate it (and we all say we hate...
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2.9KDisbursementsTRENDING: How Travel Insurers Use Push Payments To Help Travelers In Trouble
From insurance companies to financial services firms to ridesharing platform providers, over the course of the past month, companies in a wide...
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2.1KPayment MethodsPetal Debuts No-Fee Credit Card For Underserved
Petal, the startup credit card company, announced on Tuesday (Oct. 2) that its credit card is now available via the company’s website....
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2.3KB2B PaymentsBusinesses Being Blindsided By Check Fraud, TROY Warns
The saying has probably been heard before: Don’t accept or cash checks from a stranger. The consumer world is well-versed on the...
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2.4KToday In DataToday In Data: Driving Commerce By Giving Customers What They Really Want
Consumers have historically needed a bit of prodding to get them into a mobile state of mind when it comes to payments....
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2.0KDigital BankingOndot On The Real-Time Data Future Of Financial Services
People love mapping apps for three reasons: They completely, and correctly, plot the best route from Point A to Point B. They...
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1.7KToday In DataToday In Data: Innovating Food Retail With Innovative Payments
One’s first thought at the word “Walmart” might not be “blockchain enthusiasts,” even though these days it would not be an inaccurate...
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2.4KGas Station RetailOil Companies’ Gas Payments ‘Fast Lane’ Pursuit
Mobile payments at the pump? Made reality, the concept has the potential to save time and truly move life into the fast...
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5.7KGlobal PaymentsANZ Rolls Out Google Pay Wallet; Klarna Links Up With OXID eSales
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Australia’s ANZ Google Pay wallet. In addition, the National...
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1.2KToday In DataToday In Data: The New And Improved (Digital) Version
While innovation and advances are often expected to appear in explosive, disruptive form – as often as they seem to appear out...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsAlibaba Signs Up With Banking Circle For Cross-Border Payments
Alibaba Group announced Thursday (September 27) that it signed up with Banking Circle to use its infrastructure and global network for digital...
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2.5KPayment MethodsStaying Ahead Of The All-In-One Card Curve
The graveyard of payments innovation is littered with would be all-In-one cards. Batteries? Plastic? Failed startups? Curve's CEO Shachar Bialick tells Karen Webster that...
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3.2KGoogleGoogle P2P Payments Via QR Codes In The Offing?
Google is working on using QR codes to allow its users to send peer-to-peer (P2P) payments. While Google Pay already enables P2P...
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4.4KVISAVisa: Why The US Is Finally Ready For Contactless
Contactless cards have been a big hit around the world. In the U.K., the European Union (EU) and Canada, contactless payments account for...
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7.5KInnovationWho’s Going In The Connected Car Driver’s Seat?
Before there was Alexa, Bixby, Siri and Google Assistant, there was Emma Nutt. Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town...
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1.3KMobile Applications
Google Tweaks India Payments App Privacy Policy
After charges that Google’s Indian mobile payment app allowed for the disclosure of customer data for advertising, the internet giant changed the...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsNexus Explores Unexpected Challenges Of Faster Supplier Payments
Late and delayed supplier payments are often discussed as a problem that can plague any industry. While that may be true, in...
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1.3KGlobal Payments
Origami Partners With UnionPay For Global Expansion; Aircoach Rolls Out Contactless Payments
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. In Japan, Origami rolls out its international Origami Pay mobile service, Moody’s lauds...
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2.3KDigital PaymentsFirst Data Moves Into China With Huifu Integration
First Data, the commerce-enabling technology company, announced on Thursday (Sept. 20) that it has inked a deal with Huifu Payment, a third-party...
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2.4KRetailFlipkart Launches Cashless Credit, Eyes Non-Banking License
Flipkart has launched a cashless credit program to give shoppers an instant credit line of up to Rs 60,000 ($833.97 USD). According...
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2.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Beauty App Embraces Crypto Rewards; Associated British Ports Explores Blockchain
Augmented reality (AR)-powered beauty app Perfect365 is going to start rewarding its more than 100 million users with cryptocurrency. According to The Next...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsCan Virtual Cards Void Checks’ Feeble Future?
In an effort to kill the check — where B2B payments are anything but efficient — might virtual cards be the answer? In...
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2.7KMobileWill BoA Give B2B Mobile Wallets A Boost?
Polished shoes and nice jacket? Check. Laptop? Yep. Business cards and document pouch? Got it. Company-issued plastic? Ha! Who needs that? A...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsKeeping Tabs On B2B Payments’ Tipping Point
Checks and ACH are entrenched payment methods when it comes to B2B, but that doesn’t mean they need to be enshrined. For Fortune...
