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2.5KPayments Innovation‘Simple’ Will Be Instant Payments Breakthrough Innovation
When the history of the paper check is written someday, scholars will not note it was the best payments form, nor the...
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1.9KB2B 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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2.7KPayments InnovationFinding Payments’ 2020 Hidden Value Today
One of the themes of the coming decade — we’ve sprung for a top-shelf crystal ball here at PYMNTS, so we can...
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8.5KPayments InnovationWhy Super Apps Could Have Superpowers
It’s what WeChat and Alipay already are in China, and what LINE is in Japan. Rappi follows suit in Latin America. It’s...
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3.9KPayments InnovationInstaReM Rebrands To Nium, Launches Open Money Network
Digital cross-border payments provider InstaReM has announced that it is rebranding to become part of Nium, the first global payments platform that...
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10.4KMobile PaymentsREPORT: What Apple Pay At Five Says About The Future Of Mobile POS Payments
Apple Pay went live five years ago yesterday, on Oct. 20, 2014. When Tim Cook took the stage a month beforehand to...
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8.7KPayments InnovationTen Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention
The mood in the air at the start of the 2010s was different from the one that preceded the start of the...
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6.0KPayments InnovationThe Invisible Opportunities In Integrated Payments
Consumers may not spend much time thinking about payments, but they certainly have expectations for them. High expectations, in fact: As the...
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1.8KBiometricsSnapPay Merchants Can Now Accept Facial Recognition Payments
Global payments solution SnapPay announced the rollout of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants. SnapPay said the technology gives users...
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3.9KPayments InnovationOnline Marketplaces Vie For The Shared Parking App Crown
Many startups desire to be the Ubers or Airbnbs of their respective industries, but taking these crowns means facing fierce competition from...
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2.2KPayments InnovationThe Rise of Shared Parking In The Platform Economy
With 225 million U.S. drivers, parking can be a tight squeeze. Of course, marketplaces are vying to solve the parking problem —...
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2.7KPayments InnovationWhat Parking Marketplaces Can Learn From Airbnb
The value of online payments for all transactions is set to blow past $6 trillion by 2024, and much of this money...
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2.4KPayments InnovationHow FinTechs Help Companies Tap Into Emerging Technologies
Businesses are becoming more aware of tech-enabled solutions and prioritizing tools that can help them work smarter — and not harder. As...
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5.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWhat’s The Best Way To Navigate The New World Of Payments?
These are indeed the days for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world of payments, and that trend looks likely to hold...
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2.1KTravel PaymentsYounger Travelers Take More Luxury Trips, But Have A Harder Time Paying
The travel market is changing and companies are evolving to meet consumer expectations. Once upon a time, Airbnb meant renting a cheap...
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5.4KFaster PaymentsSWIFT Moves To The Cloud
SWIFT and Microsoft have partnered with Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) to finalize the trial of Cloud Connect, a new...
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8.7KPayments InnovationThe Real-Time Payments Receivables Conundrum
P.T. Barnum perfected the art of showmanship, a reputation burnished by the spectacular fame of the traveling circus and side show that...
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12.3KCommerce ConnectedWhat The Trendsetters Say About How We Will Pay Next Decade
Sheep are not natural-born leaders. If they were, they wouldn’t need border collies or sheepherders to make sure that they didn’t follow...
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6.0KB2B PaymentsB2B’s Summer Of Faster, Integrated Payments
For B2B payments, this summer was a season of technological progress. Both buyers and suppliers say they are looking forward to adopting...
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4.3KPayments InnovationHow Sports Stadiums Are Undergoing Digital Transformations
No industry is immune to digital transformation. Sure, activities like shopping online, getting food delivered, catching a cab or finding a gig...
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6.0KCross Border CommerceGlobal Cross-Border Payments Expected To Grow, But Challenges Remain
Cross-border payments are expected to surge over the next few years as the economy becomes increasingly global and interconnected. These transactions reached...
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4.3KDigital PaymentsWhy Payments Diversity Matters As Firms Go Global
On a global stage, one size does not fit all when it comes to payments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO...
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2.0KeCommerceHow 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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3.1KB2B 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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13.7KB2B 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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6.2KAccounts 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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4.4KB2B 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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3.6KPartnerships / 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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5.3KPayments 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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5.3KMastercardMastercard 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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2.7KGig 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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3.4KInnovationPOS 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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3.7KPlatform 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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5.1KVISAVisa’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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6.4KDigital 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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4.6KDisbursementsThe 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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4.2KPayment 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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2.5KPayments 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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2.2KPayments 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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6.2KVISAVisa, 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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4.8KPayments 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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3.8KB2B 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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3.2KRetailWhat 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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13.7KInnovationHow 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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3.2KInnovationWhy 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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10.8KPayments 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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4.3KRegulationTuro: 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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4.8KPayments 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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3.2KPayments 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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4.2KPayments 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...
