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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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1.5KSecurity & 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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1.9KAlternative 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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1.4KPayment 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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1.4KB2B 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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1.1KPayment 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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1.4KPayment 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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1.3KToday 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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1.6KPayment 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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1.5KNext-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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1.5KBuy 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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2.1KB2B 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...
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4.4KPayment MethodsFed Study: US Consumers Make Average Monthly Payments Of $3,999
In the fifth official study conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, Richmond and San Francisco, the 2018 Diary of...
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4.1KBuy Now Pay LaterWhy Installment Payments Are Fashionable This Holiday Season
Consumers — especially millennials and Generation Z — are looking for new commerce experiences during the 2019 holiday season. However, they are...
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2.3KFaster PaymentsFed Becomes Founding Sponsor Of Faster Payments Council
The Federal Reserve System has joined the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) as a founding sponsor, the Fed announced in a press...
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3.0KCross-border PaymentsHow Recurring Payments Support Customer Services
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) support platforms have more to worry about than solving customer service problems — they must manage the backlash when interrupted...
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2.0KPayment MethodsJack Henry Debuts Card-To-Card Bill Pay
Jack Henry & Associates has announced the launch of iPay CardPay, which enables its banks and credit unions “to provide near-real-time, card-funded...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsIndia’s Marg ERP Develops B2B ePayment Platform
India-based Marg ERP — which provides enterprise resource planning, inventory management and accounting technology to businesses — is reportedly developing an electronic...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsHow Faster Payments And Faster Data Drive Payroll Innovation
Shifting employee landscapes, changes in workers’ demands over how and when they get paid, and technological innovation have combined to open the...
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4.3KPayment MethodsNEW DATA: Millennials Were Black Friday’s Big Spenders In 2019
Black Friday is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season and this year 151 million consumers got their Black Friday shopping...
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3.9KAlternative FinancesAfterpay CEO: How Alt Payments Are Altering Black Friday Spend
Shoppers looking for something a little unusual this holiday season when they head out on Black Friday will have no shortage of...
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1.5KSpend ManagementWinning The ‘Game Of Keystrokes’ With Spend Tools
In providing Thanksgiving meals to communities in need this week, missing receipts or misspent funds can eat away at resources. These are...
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2.1KPayment MethodsPayPal’s Xoom Rolls Out Bill Pay For Users In Jamaica
Xoom, PayPal’s international money transfer service, announced the launch of its bill pay service in Jamaica. Through a partnership with bill platform...
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3.0KSpend ManagementHow Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability
Every dollar matters for a small to medium-sized business (SMB). Recent data indicated that 82 percent of SMBs shutter in their first...
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3.5KAmazonAmazon’s Japan Customers Can Now Finance Purchases With Paidy
Amazon users in Japan are now able to use Paidy, an instant credit provider, as a payment option, according to a release. ...
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3.3KPayment MethodsAre Millennials Really Over Revolving Credit?
Consumers and their credit providers aren’t always aligned when it comes to best outcomes. For a customer using a revolving credit tool,...
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1.5KNewsTop News In Payments: PayPal Agrees To Buy Honey; Aon Acquires Insurance Platform CoverWallet
In today’s top payments news, PayPal has agreed to acquire shopping discount and rewards platform Honey Science Corporation. Also, professional services company Aon has announced it...
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3.2KMastercardMastercard, Meridiam Partner To Help Cities Fund Transit Pay Innovation
Mastercard is partnering with global investor Meridiam to help upgrade transit systems by introducing smart payments and laying the groundwork for mobility-as-a-service...
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758Today In DataMaking Coffee And Clothing More Accessible With Retail Innovation
Food brands are making coffee more accessible by packing the energy-boosting ingredient into snack bars sold by one-time purchase and subscription. In tech, smart mirrors can...
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3.9KPayments InnovationThe Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate
Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer...
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6.5KPayment MethodsAmex Offers Big Cash Incentives To Businesses To Boost Acceptance
American Express, which has long lagged behind rivals like Visa and Mastercard in terms of business acceptance, has been aggressively pushing to...
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1.7KData DiveData Dive, The New Financial Services Edition: Google, Apple And Facebook
The quest to disrupt the mainstream banks of the past is not exactly a new headline — any number of FinTechs big...
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6.3KRegulationHow To Make Online Sports Gaming A Sure Bet For Payments, State Governments
Damon Runyon — the American author who created characters like Sky Masterson, immortalized in “Guys and Dolls,” and enamored with rolling the dice...
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4.6KRetailWhy, In The eCommerce Era, Catalogs Are Cool Again
While Sears Roebuck gets all the credit for inventing the mail order catalog business in the United States, in historical terms they...
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4.2KMobile ApplicationsTikTok Enters eCommerce With In-App Shopping Links
The popular video app TikTok is testing out a new feature that will give certain video creators the option to add links...
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4.6KPayment MethodsAdyen Adds Card Issuing By Merchant Demand
Dutch global payments platform Adyen announced it is launching card-issuing services to its customers. Adyen Issuing will enable clients to provide customers...
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1.3KRetailBoosting Innovation And Mobile Gaming Via Sports
Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry,...
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2.3KPayment MethodsFor Marketplace Platform Payments Experiences, Is It Back To Basics?
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of new sharing economy platforms. “The Uber of furniture,” P2P closet-sharing and crowdshipping...
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1.9KInvestmentsAfrica’s PalmPay Debuts In Nigeria On Heels Of $40M Funding
After a $40 million Seed funding round, payment startup PalmPay has officially launched in Nigeria. The funding round was led by Chinese...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsIngo Money Dives Into Real-Time Payments Ubiquity Challenges
Faster payments continue to gain traction in the U.S., as service providers old and new introduce more options for consumer and business...
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2.6KSubscriptionsWordPress Teams With Stripe To Offer Recurring Payments
Popular publishing platform WordPress.com has teamed up with payments company Stripe to add a subscription or recurring payments option, enabling users to...
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6.3KFacebookFacebook Launches ‘Facebook Pay’ For Cross-App Payments
Facebook has announced the launch of Facebook Pay, a payment system meant to operate through Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. “People already...
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3.5KeCommerceThree Hurdles Platform Marketplaces Must Clear To Survive (And Thrive)
Two decades ago, the world stood on the brink of a digital commerce inflection point — even though many didn’t quite know...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsHow FinTechs Encourage Suppliers To Tap Into ePayments
In business, ePayments not only simplify and streamline the way companies make payments, they also speed up the way suppliers are paid....
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2.2KRegulationApple Pay Competition Practices Eyed By EU Regulators
Big Tech has gotten, is getting and will get its share of regulatory scrutiny. For Apple, there seems to be an increasing...
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2.6KPayment MethodsHave Pillow, Will Trade? How Digital Is Stirring A New Age Of Bartering
What’s old, of course, always becomes new again. That holds especially true this month for the prehistoric practice of bartering. Indeed, it...
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2.0KInternationalBrazil’s Banco Inter Teams With Alibaba, Nike, Others For eCommerce App
Brazilian Lender Banco Inter is launching an app to give its clients direct access to more than 60 online stores, according to...
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3.3KeCommerceJamaican Shoppers Can Now Pay For Amazon Orders At Western Union
Amazon shoppers in Jamaica can now pay for their items in local currency at Western Union locations across the country, according to...
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3.6KCross-border PaymentsHow SaaS Providers Get Emerging Markets To Subscribe
Global subscription businesses looking for a fresh crop of customers are setting their sights on emerging markets. These economies are modernizing,...
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3.0KPayment MethodsDiscover To Start Phased Contactless Launch
Discover has announced it will start issuing contactless cards over the next several months. “Contactless technology has become increasingly popular with our...
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2.0KNewsREPORT: How Consumers Want To Connect To Pay
Consumers have a bad case of app fatigue. There was a time when consumers were eager to download and experiment with apps...
