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payments innovation
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1.4KeCommerceHow Digital Tech Helps Travelers Crush Big Waves
Thanks to eCommerce and digital payments, the global travel industry is undergoing significant disruption. At the same time, more consumers are living...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsHow Disbursements Bring B2C-Like Innovation To The B2B Sphere
While B2B payments innovation often takes a page or two out of the business-to-customer (B2C) payments world, the rise of the gig...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsMastercard: Why The Time Is Now For Real-Time B2B Payments
Is the time ripe for B2B payments done in real time? In a Masterclass interview with Karen Webster, Andrea Gilman, senior vice president...
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3.2KAccounts PayableSix Payment Methods AP Departments Like More Than Paper Checks
When it comes time to pay suppliers, most accounts payable (AP) professionals will use whichever payment method they need to get the...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsFleet Payments Explore The Connected Car Opportunity
As financial service conglomerates and innovators move deeper into the B2B payments field, they’re finding a field of opportunity to disrupt clunky...
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2.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayment Megamergers Reshape The Merchant Services Chessboard
The megamergers of 2019 have been reshaping the payments industry. For merchant services, especially, the chessboard looks much different. Daniela Mielke, CEO of...
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3.1KPayments InnovationPayments Execs Weigh In On Innovation For The Roaring 2020s
The 2010s are almost over — get ready for the 2020s. PYMNTS queried 29 payments execs to get a sense of the...
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3.5KMastercardMastercard On Facebook’s Libra Crypto Payments Future
The news about Libra has been out for about a week. The think pieces have come in waves, as have the reactions...
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1.5KGig EconomyHow Toptal Seeks To Instill Freelance Marketplace Trust
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. businesses will employ remote workers by 2023. Making those payments friction-free will be key to attracting and retaining...
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2.2KInnovationPOS Payments At The Speed Of Sound (Waves)
Friction bedevils all types of retail — and that holds true for transactions inside stores or via eCommerce sites. At the same...
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2.4KPlatform PaymentsWhy Global Gig Workers Like Local Payments
By 2023, 73 percent of all offices across the U.S. will have remote workers that eschew the traditional commute to an office...
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3.5KVISAVisa’s Shrauger On What’s Next (And Why Now) For Visa Next
A few weeks ago, card giant Visa debuted Visa Next, bringing a wealth of broad API functionality to issuing banks and partners. Sam...
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4.9KDigital PaymentsWill The 2020s Be The Digital Trust Decade?
With summer upon us, it might have escaped notice that the decade of the 2010s is about to end. We don’t mean...
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3.8KDisbursementsThe eCase For Liberating $190B In Rental Security Deposits
Around the world, banks and FinTech firms are addressing challenges associated with enabling fund disbursements in real time — and some markets...
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2.9KPayment MethodsWild Cards? eGaming, Payroll, Credit, Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid
Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them...
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2.0KPayments InnovationSmarter Payments Mean More Secure And More Seamless Payments
The rise of global payments has meant the need for smarter payments, according to the new Smarter Payments Playbook. In the study,...
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1.6KPayments InnovationHow FinTechs Take On Electronic Payments With Integrated Receivables
Integrated receivables have received a significant amount of interest and press in the banking space: DadeSystems President and CEO Bill Zayas, for instance,...
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4.7KVISAVisa, Chase Team To Launch Contactless At NYC Mass Transit
The first time is a charm. In fact, the first time must be a charm. No, we are not talking about first...
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3.7KPayments InnovationCiti: Why And How To Bring More Collaboration To Payments
There is no “i” in team — every coach’s mantra. Guess what, though? That’s only half the story when it comes to...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsAccounts Receivable Evolves, Tackles Digital Advertising’s Biggest Challenges
More than 1 million people canceled their television cable subscriptions in the first quarter of 2019 alone, and not because they aren’t...
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2.5KRetailWhat Does Innovation Mean For Small Hospitality And Food Service Businesses?
Small businesses might be optimistic about the future. In the accommodation and food services industries, they are also ready to innovate. According...
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3.6KInnovationHow 45 Pct Of Old-School SMBs Plan To Innovate
In today’s digital economy, with shopping as easy as the tap of a finger on a smartphone screen, brick-and-mortar retail businesses have...
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2.9KInnovationWhy It’s Time To Rewire Payments Or Fail
Imagine a race of fast cars, speeding along some race track at, say, 1,000 mph. Now, imagine having to change a tire...
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8.9KPayments InnovationWill Facebook’s Crypto Payments Rails Get A Big Like?
The news last Friday that Facebook has plans to launch its own global crypto-based payments rails is déjà vu all over again....
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3.4KRegulationTuro: Why Regulating P2P Carsharing Won’t Level The Playing Field
The world of traditional car rentals, generally speaking, doesn’t present a consumer with the world’s greatest experience. One can pick the general...
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4.0KPayments InnovationAirlines Say Wheels Up To Pay-By-Bank Payments
Payments don’t always have to be just about the cards. That’s the big message being sent throughout the payments world as PSD2...
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2.4KPayments InnovationHow FinTechs See The Evolution Of Payments And Commerce
FinTech firms are tracking the evolution of digital commerce and payments while tapping into the experiences of their leaders. AvidXchange Chief Operating...
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3.1KPayments InnovationCitigroup Ramps Up Payments Tech With New Tools
Citigroup’s Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli is relying on technology to increase its payment business. “Our strategy has to...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsReady Or Not, Faster Payments Will Impact Corporate Operations
Corporate payments still don’t have a clear role in driving the adoption of faster payment technologies and systems in the U.S. The...
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6.9KPayments InnovationVisa, Wave Team To Bring Instant Payouts To Micropreneurs
“When do you want to get paid?” It’s a basic question that — when posed to anyone, particularly, a small business (SMB)...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsIndustry Leaders Form Center For Payments
A group of payment associations in the U.S. are collaborating to launch the Center for Payments, a program focused on propelling the...
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8.5KDigital PaymentsIs P2P A (Good) Trojan Horse For Banks?
In mythology, the Trojan Horse is a symbol of hidden intent — a gift hiding warriors ready to slash and burn. In...
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2.9KToday 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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6.1KPayments 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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8.0KPayments 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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8.0KDigital 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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8.9KRegulationCan 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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4.2KPayments 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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7.0KPayments 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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11.7KPayments 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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7.1KPayments 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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7.7KB2B 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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7.1KB2B 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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4.7KPayments 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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3.7KMobile 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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14.6KRegulationMerchants 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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5.1KPayment 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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8.1KCredit 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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4.7KInternationalThe 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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15.4KFaster 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,...
