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486Payments 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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354Payments 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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2.2KVISAVisa, 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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1.6KPayments 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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2.4KB2B 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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1.6KRetailWhat 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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2.9KInnovationHow 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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2.5KInnovationWhy 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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5.1KPayments 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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2.7KRegulationTuro: 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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3.5KPayments 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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1.8KPayments 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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2.6KPayments 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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3.8KB2B 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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6.2KPayments 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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3.2KB2B 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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8.0KDigital 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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2.3KToday 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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5.6KPayments 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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7.4KPayments 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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7.6KDigital 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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7.6KRegulationCan 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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4.0KPayments 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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6.5KPayments 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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11.3KPayments 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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6.6KPayments 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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7.3KB2B 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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6.7KB2B 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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4.4KPayments 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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3.4KMobile 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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13.7KRegulationMerchants 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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4.7KPayment 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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7.9KCredit 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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4.5KInternationalThe 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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14.5KFaster 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,...
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7.0KMatchmakersWith This Ring, I Thee Pay — Buy, And Authenticate
Human wrists deserve a break when it comes to payments, commerce and even authentication, right? To put it another way: Is there...
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4.3KB2B 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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13.6KPayments 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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10.3KB2B 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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6.6KB2B 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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6.5KSecurity & 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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4.2KPayments 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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5.4KPayments 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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3.2KFaster 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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7.3KFaster 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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3.7KB2B 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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4.3KDigital 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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5.6KB2B 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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4.6KB2B 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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6.5KPOS 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...
