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payments innovation
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1.8KB2B 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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4.2KPayments 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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7.0KB2B 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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4.2KB2B 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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4.0KSecurity & 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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2.5KPayments 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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3.3KPayments 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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2.5KFaster 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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5.5KFaster 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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2.5KB2B 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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2.6KDigital 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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4.0KB2B 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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2.7KB2B 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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4.1KPOS 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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7.1KAPITRENDING: 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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3.6KPayment 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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5.5KB2B 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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4.3KInnovationRetail 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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4.9KTravel 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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2.2KFaster 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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7.0KFaster 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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3.8KMastercardMastercard 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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11.7KPayments 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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5.6KB2B 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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2.4KPayments 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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2.5KGlobal 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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8.6KPayments 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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2.3KToday 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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5.8KToday 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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2.0KGlobal 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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2.7KToday 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...
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3.0KMobile PaymentsSWIFT Pre-Validates, Singapore Eyes Mobile Payments Push
Amid an embrace of mobile payments and a push toward consumer choice, sometimes payments infrastructure must change. This week, the Monetary Authority...
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7.2KPayments InnovationWhy Certainty Rules Payments
I needed a few outdoor cushions earlier this season and hired a local upholstery shop to make them. This small business is...
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2.2KToday In DataMatching Retail And Payment Perceptions To Realities
There are many things modern consumers perceive as true, even when they aren’t. One might be tempted to think cash is on...
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4.8KTravel PaymentsFighting The High Cost Of Travel Payments
Airlines and hotels are not payments companies — and they don’t want to be. They are in the business of flying planes...
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9.9KRidesharingWhat Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash
Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their...
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9.7KRidesharingUber’s Newest Project? Reinventing Its Payments Experience
The transportation company that innovated payments by delivering the Uber experience is at it again — this time, by making it easier...
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6.7KPayment MethodsNXP On Plastic Cards: There’s A Lot Of Life Left
The plastic payment card is dead. Long live the plastic payment card! Forgive the whipsaw attitude, but that’s how it can feel...
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5.1KPayments InnovationHow To Fix Healthcare Payments
Back in the good old days of healthcare, the employer paid for all (or most) of the freight, and the out-of-pockets for...
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2.1KToday In DataToday In Data: Better Ways To Buy, Better Ways To Live
Yesterday’s earth-shaking innovation can so easily slip into becoming today’s discarded idea that the transition can be easy to miss – the A&P...
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7.9KPayments InnovationOnline Platforms: Why Consumers Rule And Regulators Don’t
A few weeks from now will mark the 72nd anniversary of a federal court decision that found grocery store chain The Great Atlantic...
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5.2KRegulationFinTech Firms On The New FinTech Charter
Getting bogged down in a maze or taking unnecessary risks — the current climate for FinTech in the United States often leaves...
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9.9KPayments InnovationWhy Household Finances Under The Hood Don’t Look So Good
Paul McCartney and The Beatles may have told us that money can’t buy us love, but new research claims that it can...
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6.5KPayments InnovationPayPal Rolls Out Checkout With Smart Payment Buttons
Today PayPal is launching Checkout with Smart Payment Buttons, the latest salvo in the firm’s ongoing war against checkout friction. Friction during the...
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8.7KPayments InnovationAre Retailers Ready For Amazon’s Prime Time?
My plan on Friday evening was to write a hard-hitting piece on a services segment with incredible marketplace friction. Then I went...
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9.0KPayments InnovationAmazon: QSRs’ Big Threat Or Essential Lifeline?
The restaurant industry today is a study in contradictions. Census data tells us that roughly 44 percent of what consumers spend on...
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3.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsTSYS Buys iMobile3, Bolstering SMB Reach
Three months ago, the “build vs. buy” debate got a fair amount of digital ink in these digital pages, focused on merchant...
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2.9KToday In DataMeeting Customers Wherever They Are (Literally)
Why deliver oneself to a store — and face the hassle of heat, crowds and parking — when the store can deliver...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsVisa’s Hackathon Winner, Hermyz, Takes B2B Payments Inspiration From Slack
Visa’s latest fuel to the B2B payments innovation fire came in the form of its inaugural Small Business Hackathon earlier this year....
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3.0KB2B PaymentsSmall Businesses Shun Innovation For Fear Of Debt
Small businesses (SMBs) prefer not to seek funding to finance their innovative endeavors, according to new research from BMO Wealth Management, which suggests...
