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865APITRENDING: 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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937Payment 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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1.6KB2B 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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2.4KInnovationRetail 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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3.8KTravel 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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1.7KFaster 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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4.8KFaster 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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2.9KMastercardMastercard 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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7.0KPayments 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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4.7KB2B 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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2.0KPayments 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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1.9KGlobal 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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6.7KPayments 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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2.0KToday 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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3.1KToday 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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1.5KGlobal 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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2.2KToday 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...
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2.5KMobile 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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6.4KPayments 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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1.8KToday 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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4.2KTravel 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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8.6KRidesharingWhat 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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7.8KRidesharingUber’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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6.0KPayment 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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4.5KPayments 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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1.8KToday 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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7.4KPayments 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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4.6KRegulationFinTech 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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9.1KPayments 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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5.5KPayments 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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7.8KPayments 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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7.4KPayments 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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3.2KPartnerships / 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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2.6KToday 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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3.5KB2B 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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2.8KB2B 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...
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8.3KPayments InnovationCan FinTech Walk The FinTalk?
Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and a prolific inventor who created the...
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8.2KInnovationHow To Future-Proof A Financial Institution
As Muhammad Ali once said, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Translated for the financial services sector, this idiom might...
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3.4KEMVMore Than Half Of Cards Issued Globally Were EMV-Enabled
Data from EMVCo shows that 54.6 percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsVisa, SBA To Host Small Business FinTech Hackathon
Visa and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are hosting a small business (SMB) hackathon later this month to promote the development of...
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5.2KPayments InnovationStripe Rolls Out Billing Amid Subscription Business Boom
To simplify the recurring billing process for Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscription-based companies, Stripe has rolled out Billing. The service combines...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsMastercard Talks Securing Innovation, And Innovating Security
In financial services today, security and innovation can work with each other, and against each other. FinServ cybersecurity is, of course, a...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsCanadian Firms Want Greater Supplier Payment Choice, Survey Finds
Small businesses (SMBs) in Canada want more payment options, both in how they accept payments from consumers and how they pay their...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsSWIFT Reveals Success, Future Challenges Of Blockchain PoC
SWIFT has offered another update on its blockchain proof of concept (PoC), reiterating its potential to enrich transaction data, support real-time liquidity...
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4.0KSecurity & FraudWhy Innovation’s Fast Pace Shouldn’t Slow Down Payments
Every business walks the same tightrope when it comes to processing payments: Convenience versus security. It doesn’t matter if the business is...
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3.8KPayment MethodsPaying City Hall, At The Kiosk And Beyond
You can’t fight city hall, goes the saying, but there are new ways to pay city hall. News came earlier this month...
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3.8KPayments InnovationFeb. 24: The Unsung History Book Hero
Some days will always be remembered — Oct. 29, 1929, for example (a.k.a. the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Others are symbolic...
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8.4KInnovationPicking America’s Next Top FI Payments Innovator
When it comes to bank innovation, size doesn't matter: any financial institution, large or small, can be a top performer with the...
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6.4KPayments InnovationHalf Of Payments Executives Are Focused On Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Payments
With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. When a consumer or a company wants to send...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsThe Numbers Behind Payment Executives’ 2018 Forecasts
PYMNTS.com got 39 of the payments industry’s top CEOs and executives to sound off on what’s next for the year and beyond....
