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payments technology
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CoronavirusFIS: Prepare To Be Caught Off-Guard
“During a black swan event, consumer trust is tested to its maximum, and the providers that rise to the occasion will build...
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Payments InnovationBusiness Models Drive Integrated Payments Innovation
It’s easy to make things complicated. It’s harder to make them simpler, especially when it comes to payments. In a Masterclass interview with...
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B2B PaymentsSorting Telco’s Web Of High-Volume B2B Payments
There is already a significant level of friction that large conglomerates face when sending and receiving payments to and from each other....
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B2B PaymentsThe Vendor’s Role In AP Automation Adoption
Automating back-office processes has indisputable positive impacts on companies’ ability to promote efficiency and operational cost savings, and even encourage sustainability through...
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Travel PaymentsMoving Travel Payments Into The Digital Age
In the 21st century, for businesses across many verticals, disruption comes at the speed of digital. That’s especially true of the travel...
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Accounts PayableBanking On Consumer-Centric Strategies To Spur Virtual Card Adoption
Flipping paper checks into virtual cards is easier said than done. In the latest Next-Gen AP Automation Tracker, Jennifer Swenson, U.S. Bank’s...
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CryptocurrencySquare Gets Patent For Crypto-Friendly Real-Time Payments System
Square, the payments provider operated by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, won a patent to debut new tech, allowing users with different assets...
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Payments InnovationEMVCo: Majority Of Payment Cards (8.2B) Are Chip-Enabled
More than 8.2 billion chip-enabled consumer cards — credit and debit — are now in use across the world, according to EMVCo,...
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B2B PaymentsACI Taps Bancorp, Visa For Real-Time Payments
ACI Worldwide is working with The Bancorp’s Direct Rapid Funds platform — powered by Visa Direct — for real-time corporate disbursements, The...
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Buy Now Pay LaterDeep Dive: How BNPL Could Boost The Future Of Mobile Shopping
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers are currently enjoying heightened interest from businesses, consumers and merchant partners, leading to market growth and...
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B2B PaymentsMobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
Square‘s mobile card reader undoubtedly made a significant impact on the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market, and kick-started a slew of recent innovations...
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CryptocurrencyIMF Chief Economist: Crypto Won’t Supersede The Dollar
Chief Economist Gita Gopinath of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it’s unlikely that digital currency — or a “synthetic hegemonic currency,”...
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Payments Innovation2020 To Mark A Turning Point At The Point of Sale
The end of one decade, the beginning of another. Might the coming year be marked by innovation at the point of sale...
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Payments InnovationRed Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
One can almost feel it in the bones: the excitement to come in the world of payments in 2020, as innovation sparks...
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B2B PaymentsVisa’s Bill Sheley On What’s Next For Push Payments
The last decade of payments innovation has developed new normals for senders and receivers of money that could not have been achieved...
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B2B PaymentsBuilding Better Payment Rails With Banks In Mind
To move a B2B transaction from one market to another, the global interbanking system is far from a perfect strategy, though it...
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B2B PaymentsWEX Broadens Fleet Card Portfolio With Valero
Commercial payments technology company WEX announced on Monday (Dec. 16) that it has reached an agreement to manage Valero Energy‘s fleet fuel...
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B2B PaymentsAvidXchange Targets Banks’ B2B Payments Friction With AvidPay
Commercial payments technology company AvidXchange is connecting banking clients to its AvidPay B2B payments network through a new integration. The company announced...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Cards’ Collaborative Approach To SMB Adoption
Though commercial card innovation has recently hit an acceleration point, there is still plenty of room for progress. A recent report from...
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Payments 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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Restaurant innovationHow NFC Loyalty Is Changing The Way QSRs Approach Rewards
Creating dedicated, loyal customers is a constant challenge for competing eateries. Consumers want greater access to mobile tools and payments, even at...
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B2B PaymentsGetting Invoices Off The CEO’s Desk, Approved — And Paid
The old adage is familiar: The light at the end of the tunnel could be daylight — or another train headed one’s...
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Partnerships / 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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B2B PaymentsBottomline Launches Open Banking API
Business payments technology firm Bottomline Technologies has rolled out a suite of services for banks to elevate their customer engagement with corporate...
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InnovationHow Innovation Priorities Are Evolving for FIs
It’s easy to get sidetracked by the new and flashy. But how much are FIs really investing in blockchain and artificial intelligence...
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Payments 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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RetailAutomated Retail’s ‘Fast And Frictionless’ Ambitions
Automation is critical in helping retailers offer a fast and frictionless commerce experience. John Clarke, chief innovation officer and co-founder at Worldnet Payments,...
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B2B PaymentsHow Banks Balance New SMB Tech (Without Nixing The Old)
The U.S. banking industry is an ever-evolving machine, shaped and disrupted by FinTech, regulation and shifting customer expectations. Until recently, these changes...
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Accounts PayableAccounts Payables’ Integrated Payoff
Integrated accounts payable (AP) management can streamline costs and efficiencies where executives grapple with paper-based processes. Jessica Moran, general manager of Paymode-X Business...
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Accounts PayableWhy Waiting For The Fax Machine To Break Isn’t AP’s Catalyst For Change
Accounts payable (AP) processes are anything but efficient, mired in paper and manual labor. Waiting for the fax machine to break is...
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Payments InnovationBank/FinTech Harmony Sets Stage For AP Automation
The B2B space needs to transform from paper-based to automated process — and nowhere is this more apparent than with accounts payable...
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Artificial IntelligenceCustomer Service’s Future: Humans And Machines In Cahoots
The robots are coming, and they are going to take our jobs. A simplification, perhaps — but if one were looking for...
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Payments 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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B2B PaymentsThailand’s Largest Firm Taps Ripple For B2B Payments
Petroleum exploration company PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), Thailand’s largest corporation, is collaborating with blockchain firm Ripple to integrate its technology for...
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Unattended RetailBeyond Unattended Retail, There’s Unattended Payments
Amid the Amazon and Uber effects, retail is changing, and the unattended model is gaining traction. Worldnet CEO Will Byrne tells PYMNTS that...
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PersonnelFamily Announces Death Of Square Co-founder O’Tierney At 35
Tristan O’Tierney, who helped found payments firm Square before leaving the company in 2013, died on Feb. 23. O’Tierney was 35, and...
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B2B PaymentsUnionPay Steps Into UK With Prepaid Corporate Cards
China payment card issuer UnionPay is stepping into the market with prepaid cards for corporates and consumers, the company announced this week. Banking...
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DisbursementsDEEP DIVE: Faster And Instant Payments For Consumer Disbursements
Whether it’s waiting to get a car from a valet, a table at a restaurant or simply to be seen for a...
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Commentary2018: The Year Of Evolution In Payments’ Revolution
In life, change is the only constant, so why should it be different for payments? From cash to digital, from plastic cards...
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B2B PaymentsNEW DATA: Making The Business Case For ePayables
When it comes to B2B payments, no one knows which of the many B2B innovations will ultimately replace the paper check, but...
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B2B PaymentsIn Expense Management, Data Emerges As The Currency Of Control
Amid the digital transformation of the enterprise, data is now considered the most valuable currency for corporates looking to transform via technology....
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B2B PaymentsStartups (And Their Investors) Offer Enterprise Processes A Digital Overhaul
With more than $370 million raised by B2B startups this week, investors are showing their support for companies that help other businesses...
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B2B PaymentsCryptocurrency Auditions For Role In Hollywood’s Financial Supply Chain
The allure of blockchain was its potential to be a catch-all solution, but as innovators take a more practical approach to introducing...
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Mobile Order AheadCan Campus Dining Graduate To Safer, Swifter Payments?
Offering mobile order-ahead on college campuses takes more than just a great app and meal plan payments — it also requires tight...
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POS 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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Digital BankingCuscal On Digital Banking Done Down Under
In Australia, time for a purely digital bank? Cuscal is putting tech and funding behind 86 400, a bank done in bits...
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Faster PaymentsBusinesses Want Real-Time Payments — What Will It Take To Get There?
Real-time payments: It’s one of those changes that everyone seems to agree on, but could still use some push. That’s the idea...
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Artificial IntelligenceWhen AI Technology Gets Up Close And Personal
Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute says there’s only one measure of AI’s true potential: When the tech is adaptive enough to understand that...
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Healthcare5G To Give Healthcare Payments A Boost
As the world — and the world of payment and commerce — ready themselves for the deployment of 5G mobile technology, the...
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Faster PaymentsFed Launches New US Faster Payments Council
A group of payment players announced Tuesday (Nov. 13) that they created a new organization, dubbed U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), aimed...
