payments technology

Banking On Consumer-Centric Strategies To Spur Virtual Card Adoption
Banking On Consumer-Centric Strategies To Spur Virtual Card Adoption
January 29, 2020  |  Accounts Payable

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 vice president of...

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Square Gets Patent For Crypto-Friendly Real-Time Payments System
Square Gets Patent For Crypto-Friendly Real-Time Payments System
January 22, 2020  |  Cryptocurrency

Square, the payments provider operated by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, won a patent to debut new tech, allowing users with different assets to transfer payments,...

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EMVCo: Majority Of Payment Cards (8.2B) Are Chip-Enabled
EMVCo: Majority Of Payment Cards (8.2B) Are Chip-Enabled
January 22, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

More than 8.2 billion chip-enabled consumer cards — credit and debit — are now in use across the world, according to EMVCo, the industry standard...

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ACI Taps Bancorp, Visa For Real-Time Payments
ACI Taps Bancorp, Visa For Real-Time Payments
January 21, 2020  |  B2B Payments

ACI Worldwide is working with The Bancorp’s Direct Rapid Funds platform — powered by Visa Direct — for real-time corporate disbursements, The Bancorp announced on...

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Deep Dive: How BNPL Could Boost The Future Of Mobile Shopping
Deep Dive: How BNPL Could Boost The Future Of Mobile Shopping
January 17, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers are currently enjoying heightened interest from businesses, consumers and merchant partners, leading to market growth and new funding for...

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Mobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
Mobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
January 08, 2020  |  B2B Payments

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 to broaden the...

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IMF Chief Economist: Crypto Won’t Supersede The Dollar
IMF Chief Economist: Crypto Won’t Supersede The Dollar
January 08, 2020  |  Cryptocurrency

Chief Economist Gita Gopinath of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it’s unlikely that digital currency — or a “synthetic hegemonic currency,” which is a...

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2020 To Mark A Turning Point At The Point of Sale
2020 To Mark A Turning Point At The Point of Sale
December 31, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The end of one decade, the beginning of another. Might the coming year be marked by innovation at the point of sale (POS)? The PYMNTS...

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Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
December 26, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

One can almost feel it in the bones: the excitement to come in the world of payments in 2020, as innovation sparks new business models...

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