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1.7KData DiveTransitions Edition: Venmo, Equifax and Nordstrom
Baseball season is winding down as the playoffs loom (Go Red Sox), football season is warming up (Go Pats) and the...
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1.5KNewsVenmo To Let Users Pay At Williams-Sonoma
Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment company, is enabling its users to pay for purchases at retailer Williams-Sonoma. According to a report in Recode,...
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2.0KVISAVenmo Launches Visa Debit Card Via Shift Financial
Venmo is testing out a free debit card for select users that is linked to their accounts. According to a TechCrunch news...
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2.3KData Dive
The Explanations Edition: Equifax, Apple and Square
All eyes were on the sky last week, as most of the Southeastern United States braced for Hurricane Irma. And, as post-Harvey rebuilding...
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2.6KMobile ApplicationsZelle To Launch Android, iOS App This Week
Zelle, the payment company backed by a consortium of big banks in the U.S., is gearing up to launch a P2P mobile...
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5.1KMobile PaymentsPayPal’s Ready On Mobile Payment’s True Potential
“It is not about changing the swipe or dip to a tap; it’s about using a [smart]phone to do things that you could...
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2.2KPayment MethodsNew Details Emerge On Apple Pay Cash
Details remain scarce on Apple’s Apply Pay Cash tool, a peer-to-peer solution that enables consumers to send money to one another’s Apple...
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5.7KData DiveVenmo Says Yes To QR, Everyone Loves Rewards And Wells Fargo’s Saga Carries On
There was not much in the mainstream news this week to cheer for — between a terrifying situation abroad in North Korea...
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7.3KPayment MethodsPay By Sound: It’s Back!
Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for...
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2.8KPayment MethodsVenmo Rolls Out QR Code Feature To Ease P2P Mobile Payments
Venmo recently launched a new QR code feature to more easily locate friends within its mobile payments app. According to a news report...
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3.4KPayment MethodsBraintree GM On Its Billion (Transaction) Roots
When Braintree announced last week that it hit a billion transactions in Q2, it made news. It also prompted Karen Webster to...
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3.6KPayment Methods
PayPal Subsidiary Braintree Powers 1 Billion Quarterly Transactions
Payments processing platform Braintree, a subsidiary of PayPal, announced Thursday (July 27) that it has reached the 10-digit milestone, processing more than...
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725Startup Check-InThe P2P Platform Startup That Wants To Pick Up Where Venmo Leaves Off
Vouchr co-founders, Robert Balahura and Suresh Bhat, say there’s a lot of noise in the P2P payments space and a lot of...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsCommanders in Chief: Merchant Link’s CIO Keeps Data Security on Its Toes
Security in payments — it’s what consumers and retailers alike need to have successful interactions. With connected devices within arm’s reach of...
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2.3KData DiveData Dive, Summer Heat Edition: Venmo Speeds Up, Amex Branches Out And Walmart Takes A Pass
Despite its reputation for being what Nat King Cole called “the lazy, hazy time of year,” summer 2017 seems stubbornly determined not...
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4.5KMatchmakersSwitching Rent Payments From Analog To Digital
While the world of payments has mostly gone online – rent remains stubbornly analog in the age of digital. According to a...
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4.7KEcosystemsPayPal Launches Instant Cash Out
PayPal has announced that going forward Venmo users can instantly transfer funds from the app to their bank account. Karen Webster got...
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3.7KAppleThe Over/Under On Apple’s Ecosystem
HomePod If the Amazon Echo is white wine and Google Home is red, then Apple’s new Siri-voiced HomePod is a fine champagne:...
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1.3KToday In DataToday in Data: Zelle Revs Up Venmo Competition
For the last few years, the U.S. banking system has faced competition from the likes of Venmo and PayPal when it comes...
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4.9KPayment MethodsZelle Makes Its Debut
By the end of June, Zelle — the bank-backed P2P payments network powered by Early Warning — will be live in the...
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2.4KCross Border CommerceX-Border Marketplaces And The Search for Better Payout Solutions
Cross-border retail is on its way to becoming a $1T business opportunity and online marketplaces are leading the way, according to the...
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5.1KCross Border CommerceNEW REPORT: How P2P Gives B2B X-Border Merchants A (Revenue) Lift
By 2020, some 940 million cross-border shoppers are expected to spend $1 trillion on eCommerce, or online payment, transactions. For marketplaces, this...
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3.4KFaster PaymentsFighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?
While P2P transactions are gaining popularity, can they address the age-old discomfort of splitting bills among friends? For the latest issue of...
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2.8KFaster PaymentsNEW REPORT: What Faster Payments Means To Venmo — And The P2P Use Case
While there are plenty of tools that make it easier to get money deposited into a bank or debit card account, there...
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2.7KNewsEarnings Continue to Drive Payments Stocks
As has been seen in the past two weeks, earnings held sway over payments stocks, and the trend held over the latest...
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2.9KEarningsPayPal’s 203M Users Drive More Frequency
It was another good earnings day to be PayPal, as the firm managed to beat the Street on earnings and analyst projections...
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2.9KPayment MethodsWestern Union Teams Up With Facebook Messenger For Global Money Transfers
Score another win for Facebook with Western Union’s latest announcement at the social media giant’s F8 annual developer conference. As we’ve reported, there...
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5.3KMobileThe Big Banks Have Officially Released Zelle Into The Wild To Take On Venmo
The hype around P2P payments has been fairly turned up over the last few years, and the upcoming battle between big bank-backed...
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2.0KDigital PaymentsFoodler Users Can Quickly Split The Check With Addition Of Venmo
Splitting the check for Foodler users has gotten a lot easier now that the rapidly growing delivery app accepts Venmo as a...
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4.1KPYMNTS Topic TBDFor Banks, Tech As Threat And Savior
Pity the banks. Tech upstarts get all the digital and real ink when it comes to coverage. Banks get written off as...
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2.0KPayment MethodsVenmo Ups The Ante On Zelle
In the latest salvo by payments app Venmo, lobbed towards the big banks, the firm is debuting what Reuters terms a “major promotional campaign,” its...
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Payment Methods
“Thanks Mom, But 3K People Bought Me Beer”
Sam Crowder knows how to stand out in a crowd. And while his mom may or may not have sent him beer...
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7.6KMobile PaymentsThe Big Banks’ Coming Venmo Killer
Can the biggest banks in the United States catch up to the millennial-beloved Venmo with their own P2P payments app? They’re sure...
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4.7KMobile Commerce
The ‘Why’ And The ‘Wow’ Of Pay With Venmo
If one wanted a quick, three-word explanation for why social commerce or social media-based contextual commerce is actually much, much harder to...
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4.5KPayment MethodsLive From PayPal, It’s Pay With Venmo (For Everyone)
Venmo, the PayPal-owned company that started out enabling payments person to person, moved several new features out of beta on Tuesday (July...
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5.5KMobile PaymentsSizzle Or Fizzle: One Momentous Day in Payments
Just when you think that it’s going to be hard, once again, to find a Sizzle, yesterday happens. SIZZLE Payments and Consumer Choice...
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Payment Methods
This Charity’s Trick To Raising Money Via Venmo
It’s not easy for nonprofits to advertise, particularly because of their tight budgets and often lean staff. It’s also not always easy...
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4.1KPayment MethodsVenmo’s Legal Woes, Walmart Pay On iOS, Goldman Goes Digital
Some news weeks are exciting, others are slow and still others are … well, others are last week. In order, the following...
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5.6KRegulationVenmo Is Facing An FTC Investigation
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Venmo in an effort to determine if the P2P service has been involved in “deceptive or...
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Payment Methods
The ‘Uber Of Nothing’ Is Coming
Payment’s Next Big Thing: The “Uber Of Nothing” ”I’m about to sneeze. May I have a Kleenex, please?” “I have a headache....
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Mobile Commerce
Square Now Lets Users Stash Their (Square) Cash
Square is bringing new functionality to Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app, and now is allowing users to store money alongside the...
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4.1KPayment Methods
Venmo Cuts Off New Developers’ API Access
In terms of P2P payments, Venmo’s numbers have been on the rise — setting a record $1 billion transfers in January. But...
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4.0KSocial CommerceVenmo Surges, Facebook Sells (Ads) & Amazon Gets Stylish
As is its annual custom, February is about to depart almost as quickly as it entered. And though the month will be...
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Mobile Payments
Mobile Pay’s Top 10: This Week In Numbers
Here at PYMNTS, we are geeks for numbers. And stats. And all things mobile, especially if you’re talking payments. Surely, you’ve caught...
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7.9KMobile Payments
Venmo’s $1B Record-Setting January
Venmo has set a new company record by hitting the $1 billion mark. As in $1 billion worth of payments made using...
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2.0KConsumer InsightsSuper Bowl 50’s $4.1B Illegal Payments Betting Scheme
The Super Bowl’s larger-than-life presence in American culture, if put in numbers, comes to about 139 million pounds of guacamole, 162.5 million pounds...
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Venmo Fumbles With Super Bowl-Driven Glitch
While the Super Bowl isn’t an official holiday, there’s no doubt that millions of people take the day to celebrate a few...
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6.7KMobile Payments
Venmo’s Twist On The Buy Button
If the future of mobile payments and mobile commerce is all about Millennials and P2P, then Venmo’s could be in the right...
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2.3KInternationalCould Cookies Be Europe’s Venmo?
The movement to bring tap and pay — through P2P — may gain some new momentum in Europe through Cookies. As TechCrunch...
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3.1KNewsRebuilding Banking, One Click At a Time
From tellers to apps, checks to clicks, and warm pleasantries to fun interfaces — banking is being reimagined, deconstructed and revamped. The all-new PYMNTS Digital...
