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1.5KEMVMore 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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2.5KB2B PaymentsVisa, SBA To Host Small Business FinTech Hackathon
Visa and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are hosting a small business (SMB) hackathon later this month to promote the development of...
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2.9KPayments InnovationStripe Rolls Out Billing Amid Subscription Business Boom
To simplify the recurring billing process for Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscription-based companies, Stripe has rolled out Billing. The service combines...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsMastercard Talks Securing Innovation, And Innovating Security
In financial services today, security and innovation can work with each other, and against each other. FinServ cybersecurity is, of course, a...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsCanadian Firms Want Greater Supplier Payment Choice, Survey Finds
Small businesses (SMBs) in Canada want more payment options, both in how they accept payments from consumers and how they pay their...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsSWIFT Reveals Success, Future Challenges Of Blockchain PoC
SWIFT has offered another update on its blockchain proof of concept (PoC), reiterating its potential to enrich transaction data, support real-time liquidity...
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3.0KSecurity & FraudWhy Innovation’s Fast Pace Shouldn’t Slow Down Payments
Every business walks the same tightrope when it comes to processing payments: Convenience versus security. It doesn’t matter if the business is...
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2.6KPayment MethodsPaying City Hall, At The Kiosk And Beyond
You can’t fight city hall, goes the saying, but there are new ways to pay city hall. News came earlier this month...
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2.9KPayments InnovationFeb. 24: The Unsung History Book Hero
Some days will always be remembered — Oct. 29, 1929, for example (a.k.a. the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Others are symbolic...
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5.7KInnovationPicking America’s Next Top FI Payments Innovator
When it comes to bank innovation, size doesn't matter: any financial institution, large or small, can be a top performer with the...
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4.7KPayments InnovationHalf Of Payments Executives Are Focused On Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Payments
With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. When a consumer or a company wants to send...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsThe Numbers Behind Payment Executives’ 2018 Forecasts
PYMNTS.com got 39 of the payments industry’s top CEOs and executives to sound off on what’s next for the year and beyond....
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8.2KDataIn The Age Of Big Data, Why Are We Still Flying Blind?
In a world where we’re bombarded daily — even hourly — by data points on everything from stock prices and market cap to...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsWhy B2B Payments Innovation Is Key To China’s Global Standing
B2B payments are an instrumental component of global trade and of setting the stage for currencies to operate as global instruments of...
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4.5KBankingVocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together new and existing rails, melding legacy systems with...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsThe Middle Market’s Expense Management Conundrum
Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsWhen B2B Payments Innovation Is All Talk, No Action
It was only (relatively) recently that B2B payments finally secured significant attention and investment from innovators. A notoriously clumsy, friction-filled industry, B2B...
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7.7KPayments InnovationWhat Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys
About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New Year’s resolution will have broken it. Don’t feel...
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3.0KRetailKroger’s Quiet Digital Grocery Push
The grocery realm has attracted many big headlines over the last few years — a phenomenon that went into overdrive six months ago...
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4.6KInternationalPayments Innovation Down Under, Organized By Tribes And Squads
Member of the tribe? Or maybe part of the squad? If both terms sound out of place in banking or payments and...
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5.9KMerchant InnovationMastercard’s Miebach On 2017’s Big Payments Breakthroughs
While everyone is looking ahead to 2018, it’s worth a look back at some of the major payments milestones of 2017. For...
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4.1KInternationalUAE Exchange CEO On FinTech Hubs And Ready Regulators
Beyond bitcoin, payments saw its share of innovation in developing markets, powered in part by financial hubs. In an interview with PYMNTS,...
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5.7KMerchant InnovationHow Will We Pay In 2018?
A wise man named Ferris once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a...
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5.6KInnovationMouth, Meet Money In Payments Innovation
Financial institutions know they have to innovate against a hyper competitive and changing landscape. Firms large and small are eyeing opportunities to keep...
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6.3KInnovationNEW DATA: How IT Infrastructure Holds FI Payments Innovation Hostage
When IT Becomes a Drag on Innovation FIs want to innovate – 97 percent of banks and credit unions surveyed told PYMNTS...
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5.5KPayment MethodsIn Financial Services Innovation, Disruption Isn’t Everything
In payments, innovation doesn’t always have to materialize in disruptive waves, but can come, rather, through incremental evolution. In an interview with...
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7.0KB2B PaymentsCorporate Banking Readies For New Challenges From Open APIs
Open APIs are finally making their mark in the financial services space, shifting the approach to everything from product development to security....
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5.8KPayments InnovationPayments Innovation: Beyond The ‘Wow’
What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsKeyBank Invests In Billtrust For AR Automation
KeyBank is working with accounts receivable company Billtrust to launch a new AR platform for its corporate clients. In a deal signifying...
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7.7KInternationalGeoswift, Western Union, UnionPay Launch Tuition Pay Promotion for Chinese Students
Geoswift, Western Union Business Solutions and UnionPay International have announced the latest joint tuition payment promotion available to Chinese students studying in...
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18.8KPayments InnovationWhat Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsU.S. Bank Unifies Global Commercial Card Platforms
U.S. Bank is offering a new service to corporate card managers in need over overseeing company cards around the world. Reports Monday...
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5.2KPayments InnovationHow One CEO Sees The Payments Evolution
In the last 10 to 20 years, technology has transformed the payments industry. Consumers are no longer reaching for their physical wallets...
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2.5KFaster PaymentsLyft Announces Receipt Forwarding for Business Travelers
Lyft said Tuesday that it is debuting a new feature, receipt forwarding for business travelers and travel managers. The ride hailing company...
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4.1KPayments InnovationCommuting’s a Drag, But Contactless Can Ease the Misery
Summer’s here, and the commute is likely sticky and dreary and just as long, or longer as it ever was. We waste...
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1.7KPayment MethodsValitor Acquires Chip & PIN Solutions To Broaden Its Direct Merchant Services
Valitor, a Fintech payment service company announced Wednesday (July 5) the acquisition of Chip & PIN Solutions, a U.K. card-based payment provider....
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3.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWorldpay Agrees to $9.9B Merger with Vantiv
Vantiv in, JPMorgan out. In a swift denouement to merger speculation that Worldpay, the biggest payment processing firm in the United Kingdom,...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsIn FinTech Innovation, Size Isn’t Everything
Sometimes, the largest banks can be slowest to innovate, but in today’s FinTech ecosystem, FIs can’t afford to stand still. Matthew Williamson,...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsB2B Payments Surpasses B2C In Profit Potential, Experts Say
In terms of innovation and profits potential, B2B payments are surpassing those in B2C according to a new report. The report was...
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3.2KPayment MethodsACI Worldwide Launches Alipay In South Africa
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced the launch of Alipay in South Africa, via...
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7.0KMatchmakersSwitching Rent Payments From Analog To Digital
While the world of payments has mostly gone online – rent remains stubbornly analog in the age of digital. According to a...
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2.6KMobile ApplicationsCredit Card Management App Tally Launches In Several States
Tally, an app that helps pay and organize credit cards, has officially launched and is now available to half of all U.S....
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3.0KMobile CommerceMonese Adds Direct Debit Capability To Its Mobile App
Monese, a fintech startup based in London that has a mobile banking app, added a new feature to its offering that is aimed...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsINTL FCStone Boosts Non-Bank Participation In SWIFT GPI
SWIFT’s global payments innovation initiative, or SWIFT gpi, gained a new member as INTL FCStone announced its Global Payments Division will join the...
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7.1KMastercardDivido’s Smart Path To POS Financing Growth
Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades. But...
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9.2KNewsSnap And Innovation That Goes Old School
We’ve all heard the phrase “don’t reinvent the wheel” — a metaphor for not wasting time perfecting a perfectly good idea that’s stood...
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3.2KPayments InnovationSkava On Meeting Payments Innovation Challenges
The world of payments is no doubt in the midst of a major transformation. Vivek Agrawal, executive vice president of technology solutions...
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3.1KPayments InnovationWEX Answers B2B Payments’ Four Big “Why’s”
In the complex payments space, it’s often innovate-or-die, especially when it comes to cross-border payments methods and payments technologies. Bob Sneed, VP...
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6.7KPayment MethodsIngo And The ‘Kill The Check’ Push (Payment)
Push payments are on the rise. The check may be at the end. Maybe. With a little assist, perhaps from the first...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsIxaris Adds Competition To B2B Payments Innovation
Last year, payments technology company Ixaris announced it would spin off some of its operations to form a separate unit dedicated to...
