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payments innovation
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Payments InnovationTokenization And Getting A 360-Degree View Into Consumer Spending
Tokens are incredibly powerful tools to secure data and safely transport it from one point to another. Now is the time to...
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Payments InnovationDeep Dive: Using Payments Orchestration To Power International Growth
The cross-border eCommerce market presents a massive growth opportunity for businesses looking to expand, as eCommerce sales are expected to reach $18.9...
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Payments InnovationThe Keys To Modernizing B2B Payments: Standards And Starting Small
The holy grail of payments modernization can be boiled down into to one word: standardization. As the financial services industry seeks to...
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Digital PaymentsDigital Payments’ Summer of Love
Human living went digital-first in the time it took COVID-19 to circle the earth once – about three months. It’s a fast...
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Payments InnovationThe Future Of Payments Beyond The Pandemic
Physicist Niels Bohr — or maybe it was ballplayer Yogi Berra — once said predictions are hard, especially the ones about the...
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Payments InnovationWhat It Takes To Get Consumers (And Merchants) To Go Cashless, Contactless – And PIN-less
The appeal of contactless payments has skyrocketed since the pandemic hit across the globe. Payment network giants such as Visa and Mastercard said...
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CoronavirusFIS: Prepare To Be Caught Off-Guard
“During a black swan event, consumer trust is tested to its maximum, and the providers that rise to the occasion will build...
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Payments InnovationRed Hat: Innovating Payments The Open Source Way
To stay competitive, especially with digital startups unencumbered by legacy systems, traditional financial institutions (FIs) need to deliver seamless customer services to...
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CoronavirusThe Innovative ‘Green Shoots’ Growing Out Of COVID-19’s Scorched Earth
There seem to be countless sources of collateral damage associated with the unexpected appearance of COVID-19 in early 2020 – the shutdown...
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Payments InnovationMerchants, PayFacs And Monetizing Payments Flows
Amid the seismic changes that have refashioned the payments landscape over the last few years — as large players get ever larger...
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B2B PaymentsPayment Rail Innovators Eye Speed For Corporates
Whether embracing development and adoption of new payment rails or developing solutions for legacy versions, the latest in payments innovation is all...
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B2B PaymentsPulling Accountants Into The Corporate Payments Innovation Fold
FinTech innovation has opened the floodgates for a stream of new platforms and products designed to help small businesses and corporates more...
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Payments InnovationHow FinTechs Help Companies Optimize Their Payments Acceptance Costs
FinTechs are helping companies understand and optimize their total cost of payments acceptance through technology. Modo Founder and CEO Bruce Parker said...
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Payments InnovationSaudi Arabia Makes Digital Push To Lessen Cash Reliance
Saudi Payments, a state-owned payments apparatus, has partnered with stc pay, another Saudi Arabia payments company, to grow the breadth of its...
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EcosystemsWhat Amazon At 10 Can Teach Us About Uber At 10
Uber reported its earnings last week. Analysts seemed happier than they’ve been in a while about the company. That’s mostly because they...
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Accounts PayableThe Benefits Of Virtual Cards For B2B Payments
Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater...
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Faster PaymentsThe Link Between FIs, RTP, Data And New Mobile Use Cases
It’s not just the speed of payments that’s important, but also the data that payment operators gain as more consumers use faster...
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Walmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart-Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Pay Raises, Wave To Pay And The Sweet Sound Of Streaming Success
It was a good week for Amazon’s stock price, with a valuation that briefly exceeded $1 trillion before falling back into the far...
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DisbursementsDeep Dive: Why State And Local Agencies In The US Still Struggle With Instant Payments
Fifty-nine percent of U.S. adults still live paycheck to paycheck, and the realities of the situation are stark: These consumers often do...
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Payments InnovationEMVCo: Majority Of Payment Cards (8.2B) Are Chip-Enabled
More than 8.2 billion chip-enabled consumer cards — credit and debit — are now in use across the world, according to EMVCo,...
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RetailHow Ghost Kitchens Are Altering The QSR Landscape
As more consumers place their food orders through digital channels, eateries are adapting to the tastes of diners who want to enjoy...
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Payments InnovationVenmo Launches Animated Custom Stickers For App Users
As of today (Jan. 21), users of cash-sending app Venmo will have the ability to send animated custom stickers through the app’s...
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DisbursementsHow Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
More than 90 percent of U.S. consumers now prefer to receive digital payments over paper checks. Cash and checks persist as the...
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Payments InnovationThe Rapid Rise Of Real-Time Payments
When The Clearing House launched its Real-Time Payments (RTP) network in 2017, the service was bound to rewrite some rules, and it...
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Payments InnovationThis Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big Doings ‘Bout SMB Payments
With Retail’s Big Show in New York, earnings season kicking off and banks reporting on the State of the State 2019, there...
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B2B PaymentsOscar Health: Using Tech To Take The Pain Out Of B2B Healthcare Payments
Healthcare providers must frequently wait to get paid by insurance company partners for the patient treatments they have already administered. Some private...
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Payments InnovationThe Coming ‘Stair Step’ In Merchant Services Provider Spend
In payments, change happens at the speed of consumer behavior. As consumer preferences evolve (across channels, online conduits and mobile devices), merchants...
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Payments InnovationNew Data: 85 Pct. Of Businesses Have Real-Time Payments On Their Roadmaps – Here’s Why
The Clearing House launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) two years ago, enabling financial institutions in the U.S. for the first time to send...
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Payments InnovationRetail’s 2020 Digital-First Payments Roadmap
Consumers have always influenced how payment methods evolve – stretching back centuries to the barter system, and extending, now, into the digital...
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B2B PaymentsHow Payroll Evolves Alongside Cross-Border Payments
Workforces are going global. Discovering and hiring talent from across borders is now easier than ever. For many businesses, hiring in other...
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Payments InnovationWho Will Shape The Future Of The Connected Economy?
Ten years ago, the world of payments and commerce was in a very different place. ISOs sold terminals and card processing, mostly...
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Payments InnovationWhy Speed And Scale Will Define Global Payments In The 2020s
Speed, scale and engagement — if you say it a few times, really get your vocal cords and mouth into the exercise,...
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Payments InnovationWelcome To The Connected Economy
Making predictions is simply irresistible at this time of the year – this year in particular. Tuesday marked not only the end...
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Payments Innovation2020 To Mark A Turning Point At The Point of Sale
The end of one decade, the beginning of another. Might the coming year be marked by innovation at the point of sale...
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B2B PaymentsPayment Rail Innovation Tops B2B’s Year Of Disruption
This year, B2B payments technology made strides toward speed, transparency and efficiency as service providers took advantage of a massive market opportunity:...
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Payments InnovationRed Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
One can almost feel it in the bones: the excitement to come in the world of payments in 2020, as innovation sparks...
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B2B PaymentsVisa’s Bill Sheley On What’s Next For Push Payments
The last decade of payments innovation has developed new normals for senders and receivers of money that could not have been achieved...
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DisbursementsUsing Digital Disbursements To Shake Up The Legal World
Plaintiffs can sometimes wait years for legal settlements to be decided, then even longer for the paper check to arrive in the...
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B2B PaymentsPayment Rails Search For Harmony In B2B Payments
Innovation in the payments arena has provided more rails upon which to move money. In B2B payments, though, legacy tools continue to...
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Payments InnovationWhy The 2020s Will Be The Vertical Payments Solutions Decade
Looking ahead to a new decade in payments — and the opportunity to monetize transactions — over the horizon lies the vertical....
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B2B PaymentsOpen Banking Casts Global Net
Open Banking is making its rounds across the globe as regulators embrace financial services industry competition, and as financial services players —...
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Payments InnovationM10 CEO: What Central Banks Want In New Global Payments Rails
Payment rails are getting more attention these days, and there is an increasing focus on offering a standardized, relatively seamless experience that...
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B2B PaymentsHow B2B Payments Balances Compliance With A Better User Experience
With the U.K. one of the largest FinTech hubs of the world today, initiatives like Open Banking demonstrate the opportunity for regulatory...
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Payments InnovationHow Outdoorsy Is Balancing Buyer, Seller Payments In The RV World
Sharing platforms in the $50 billion RV market are just the latest example of a sharing economy marketplace trying to grapple with...
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Payments InnovationAI’s Place In The $50B RV Market
Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount...
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Payment 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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B2B PaymentsCredit Unions Find Opportunity In Payments Disruption
Credit unions are underdogs in a financial services space still dominated by major traditional banks, particularly when it comes to small business...
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InvestmentsThe Venture Investing Road Less Traveled: Funding Enablers, Not Challengers
High-flying tech unicorns have been brought to earth. Venture capital dollars chase Neobanks and alternative credit companies. Commerce Ventures Founder Dan Rosen tells...
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Payments InnovationWhy The Death Of The ISO Is Greatly Exaggerated
For at least the last 15 years, it seems there has always been someone ready to write a eulogy for independent sales...
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B2B PaymentsTop Issuers Embrace FinTech Collaboration For Biz Card Innovation
Much of what commercial card innovators seek to address is a massive pain point for adoption: supplier acceptance. Such was the strategy...
