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1.4KToday In DataHow Payments (And Healthcare) Drive Digital Innovation
There is a gap between what merchants say they want to do toward innovation and what they actually do — and from that gap...
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3.7KPayments InnovationWill Faster Payments Spur Healthcare Innovation?
Healthcare is an undoubtedly complicated space for all the players involved (the providers, insurers, patients, pharmaceutical manufacturers), particularly when it comes to...
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4.1KPayments InnovationBridging The Perception/Retail Innovation Gap For SMBs
Truth exists in the gaps. Yes, that sounds like a lazy stab at wisdom — more like a parody of a pretentious...
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4.6KDigital PaymentsHow Data Will Speed The Move To Cashless Payments
Is there a hotter topic — a buzzier buzzword, one might term it — than cashless? Ours is swiftly becoming the age...
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5.7KRegulationCan PSD2 Get Past Its GDPR Problem As Deadlines Hit?
Ladies and gentlemen, it has finally arrived. From this day forward (March 14), businesses covered by the European Union’s (EU’s) Second Payment...
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2.6KPayments InnovationNatWest Testing Biometric Fingerprint Card Payments
NatWest, the U.K. bank, is kicking off a test in which customers can use biometric fingerprint technology for card payments. According to...
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5.4KPayments InnovationWhat ATMs And Open Source Have To Do With Payments Innovation
It might be the case that 2019 takes shape as a watershed year for payments regulation, marked by PSD2 and GDPR. Stakeholders in...
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9.8KPayments InnovationHow Airbnb Uses Payments To Stay Competitive
Consumers who rent a vacation home through Airbnb must trust that the keys will be there for them upon arrival, as much...
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5.7KPayments InnovationIntegrating Payments Into The Workflow — And The Workforce
The workforce skews tech-savvy, younger ... and remote. The way we pay and get paid is ever-more intuitive, cued by Uber. So it is —...
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6.5KB2B PaymentsSWIFT Gears Up For Trade Via Blockchain
Financial messaging service SWIFT said this past week that it has fashioned a partnership with R3, a blockchain startup. The partnership will integrate the...
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6.1KB2B PaymentsWhy 85 Pct Of Companies Want AP Automation
In manufacturing plants, call centers and many other workplaces, automation is the standard. However, when it comes to corporate accounting departments, automation...
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4.0KPayments InnovationDigital Lending’s $1.4T Travel Payments Plan
The family trip to Disney World, the honeymoon to Hawaii, the 25-year anniversary spent in Paris — the big trips people take...
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3.1KMobile PaymentsSamsung Adds Millions To Mobeewave’s Series B
In November 2018, Mobeewave announced that it had closed a big Series B round. Led by NewAlpha Asset Management, Mastercard and Forestay Capital,...
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10.4KRegulationMerchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition
Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Never mind...
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4.2KPayment MethodsGiving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost
Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method...
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7.4KCredit UnionsReport: CU Members, Leaders Out Of Sync On Innovation
Credit union (CU) customers are more than just customers: They are members of a wider community. This sense of belonging and inclusion...
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4.2KInternationalThe Changing Trends As Davos Gets Off The Ground
As the World Economic Forum is getting off the ground in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos this week, much will...
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13.0KFaster PaymentsThe Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine
There’s a canary in the faster payments coal mine. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas,...
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6.2KMatchmakersWith This Ring, I Thee Pay — Buy, And Authenticate
Human wrists deserve a break when it comes to payments, commerce and even authentication, right? To put it another way: Is there...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsRussia’s Electronic B2B Payments Expectations Go Beyond B2C
B2B payments always seems to be a step or two behind B2C payments innovation, on several fronts. It’s often struggling to make...
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12.4KPayments Innovation2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind
Welcome to the first Monday of 2019. According to the Chinese calendar, 2019 is the “Year of the Pig” – which may...
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9.5KB2B PaymentsCorporates Step Up To Welcome AI, Blockchain
In a recent report published by Protiviti and North Carolina State University, analysts found just how important technology and innovation are becoming...
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6.0KB2B PaymentsFaster Payments For Corporates Begin To Simmer
With the payments acceleration trend of recent years promising disruption in peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, these initiatives were viewed only in the context...
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5.8KSecurity & FraudBrighterion CEO: 2018 Was The Year Of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion, wrote this AI-focused piece as part of our 2018 year-end eBook. On Dec. 3, 2018, the U.S....
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3.8KPayments InnovationKPMG: 2018 Was The Year of Democratization
Daniel Houseman, partner at KPMG, contributed the following piece as part of the PYMNTS 2018 year-end eBook. Payments innovation in 2018 has leveled...
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5.0KPayments InnovationGusto CEO: Why Bimonthly Payroll Is Stuck In The Dot-Matrix Era
The typewriter had a good run. It ruled the roost as far as corporate word processing went for well over 100 years...
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3.0KFaster PaymentsSIA’s Third-Party Approach To RTGS
It's a daunting challenge for a country to create its own real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, much less seamlessly migrate to it....
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6.7KFaster PaymentsThird Parties Help Central Banks Ride RTP Rails
The uptake of faster payment systems keeps going up — and up, and up. In fact, the number of Same Day ACH...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsRestaurant365 Launches Fully Integrated AP Solution
Restaurant365 is launching a fully integrated accounts payable (AP) automation solution to streamline restaurant invoice capture, approvals and payment processing. While most...
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3.7KDigital PaymentsEPC Chair On SEPA’s Instant Credit Transfer, One Year In
Last year, the European Payments Council (EPC) debuted the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme, where credit transfers are done in 10 seconds...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsAmex Go Gears Up For Australia Launch
American Express (Amex) is launching its new American Express Go service in Australia in an effort to help corporate financial managers adopt...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsHigh Revenues, Low Margins An Opportunity In X-Border Corporate Payments
Consumers may secure the majority of payments innovation efforts, but when it comes to cross-border payments, the opportunity undoubtedly lies in corporate...
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5.7KPOS InnovationMobeewave Founders On Igniting Contactless Payments In 2019
It has been written that “to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose.” Seven years ago, when Mobeewave Co-founders...
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8.3KAPITRENDING: IBM’s Plan To Help Banks Embrace Open Banking
Open banking initiatives are changing the way banks operate and engage with third parties and partners. However, those are not the only...
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4.7KPayment MethodsConnecting The Dots On Paying With Connected Devices
Black Friday looms. The holidays loom. Time to take stock, then, of How We Will Pay – in the retail setting, of course,...
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7.1KB2B PaymentsCorporates Compile Their Payments Innovation Wish Lists
Corporate decision-makers are seeing more choices in technology and services when it comes to the ways they pay suppliers, employees and business...
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5.4KInnovationRetail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?
It’s not your father’s customer loyalty anymore. The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in...
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6.0KTravel PaymentsThe High Price Of Payments — And Innovation — In Travel
It’s that time of the year: crowded airports, missed connections, maybe the surprise of an upgrade (to stretch out those legs after...
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2.9KFaster PaymentsFaster Payments, Real-Time Payments And A Few Glitches
Speed matters in payments, and as B2B moves away from checks, some recent infrastructure initiatives and announcements show traction in Europe and...
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8.1KFaster PaymentsNEW DATA: Why One-Third Of Businesses Want Real-Time Payments
Paper checks are still the norm when it comes to B2B payments — and companies aren’t happy about it. After all, paper...
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4.5KMastercardMastercard On Why It Supports EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification
Mastercard, the digital payments company, made the case in a blog post Monday (Oct. 22) on why it supports EMVCo’s release of...
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14.2KPayments InnovationHow Connected Devices Are Revolutionizing How And Who We Pay
Connected devices — smartphones, tablets, voice-activated speakers, smartwatches, in-car dashboard systems — are changing how consumers in the U.S. buy and pay....
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7.2KB2B PaymentsIntuit On Why Small Biz Can Lead The Way For B2B Payments Change
People learn to live with their messes, whether that means piles of old clothes stuffed into the closet, emotional baggage from high...
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3.1KPayments 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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3.5KGlobal PaymentsTappy Teams With Etisalat For Wearables; Nets Rolls Out PayCollect For Merchants
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Singapore’s Nets PayCollect rollout. In addition, Xero is...
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10.2KPayments InnovationThe Roil Over B2B Payments Rails
B2B payments innovators and Warren Buffet have something in common: They are both obsessed with rails. Warren Buffet made rails sexy again when...
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2.9KToday In DataToday In Data: New Faster Payments Normal
Faster payments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly becoming the norm. Consumers and business want it and there is money to...
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6.6KToday In DataToday In Data: Separating The Hope From The Hype In Payments
Hype is, and always has been, part and parcel to the world of tech. After all, almost no one bills their own...
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2.9KGlobal PaymentsOrigami 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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3.2KToday In DataToday In Data: Digital Payments Take Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
That digital payments are moving forward fast is inarguable at this point. You can see it in the explosive growth of P2P payments in the...
