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182Global PaymentsVisa Holds ‘FastTrack’ Session In Dubai, PayPoint Rolls Out Amazon Top Off Promotion
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Visa’s ‘FastTrack’ mentoring session in Dubai....
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347Payments InnovationWorld Cup Highlights Growth Of Contactless Payments In Russia
Contactless payments scored big at the FIFA World Cup in Russia, with 50 percent of Visa purchases in tournament venues utilizing contactless transactions through...
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820DisbursementsDeep Dive: Why Employers Are Turning To Payroll Cards
Employers are increasingly moving away from depositing paychecks into employees’ bank accounts, offering instead to add them to payroll cards. Payroll cards...
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785InternationalTrade War’s Ripple Effect Means Currency, Commerce, Payments Waves
Amid the swirl of headlines that focus on the back and forth between China and the United States, and the continuing escalation...
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2.1KVISAWhat Do Millennial Women Think About Money?
Women’s relationship with money in the United States has been something of an evolving area in the 242 years since Thomas Jefferson...
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1.8KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Prime’s Real Value
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a discussion of the real...
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1.5KVISAKuwait Finance House Teams Up With Visa For Mobile Wallet
To roll out a mobile wallet for its credit and prepaid Visa cardholders, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) teamed up with Visa. The wallet...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsCashFlows Launches BIN Sponsorship Service
CashFlows said this week (July 3) that it has launched a product designed to make it easier for smaller firms to issue...
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3.3KAmazonAmazon Cardholders Can Chase More Whole Foods Discounts
Amazon customers with the right credit card can keep chasing more grocery discounts at Whole Foods. The eCommerce operator said that between...
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2.6KLegalUK Court Sends Retailer/Credit Card Fee Fight To Competition Tribunal
The U.K.’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday (July 4) that a fight between U.K. retailers and credit card companies over fees has...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsH1 2018 — The Best Of B2B (So Far)
The B2B payments market is already enjoying a solid year, thanks to some of the biggest names in payments and FinTech taking...
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1.8KIntelligence of ThingsTRENDING: Using IoT Tech To Sell 4th of July Goodies On The 5th
New efforts in the IoT space are aiming to help payment-enabled wearables and devices come to market faster, and assist grocery stores...
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1.3KSizzle/FizzleTwo-Sided Markets Sizzle, Swipe Fees Fizzle And Exactis Leaks A Lot Of Data
Fizzle of the Week: Exactis “Records are made to be broken.” That famous quote has been assigned, in some variation, to Richard...
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1.4KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Gets Into Pill Delivery
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes Amazon’s latest healthcare move, along...
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2.2KPayment MethodsContactless Payments Take The Prize At World Cup Stadiums
Soccer is a contact sport, but fans are using contactless payments at one of the sport’s most famous events: Approximately 17 percent...
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1.8KLegalVisa, Mastercard May Reach Settlement In Card Swipe Fee Suit
More than a decade after merchants brought a class-action suit against Mastercard, Visa and card-issuing banks in 2005, a settlement between the...
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2.2KLegalSupreme Court: Amex Anti-Steering Does Not Run Afoul Of Antitrust Law
And so, the two-sided market lives on. In a ruling Monday morning (June 25), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled...
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2.2KBankingBank Of Ireland Faces Intermittent Debit Card Outages
Due to a recent outage, some Bank of Ireland customers were unable to use their debit cards. The bank reported that approximately...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsVisa Leads Wirecard Into Digital Fleet Card Industry
Visa and Wirecard are collaborating on a digital fleet card program, the companies revealed in an announcement on Thursday (June 21). Wirecard...
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2.5KInnovationAiFi’s Plans To Scale Checkout-Free Grocery Stores
It’s a stamp of approval and financial reward in an increasingly competitive field: AiFi, a U.S.-based company about to launch major tests...
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2.9KBankingFrictionless Payments And Top Mobile Banking Innovation
Banks are turning to digital technology to enhance the customer experience — and reduce payment friction — in an effort to boost...
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3.6KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Moves Into The Marriott
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a look at the latest...
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2.6KVISAVisa Hiring Third Party To Look Into UK Payment Outage
Visa is gearing up to hire an outside party to investigate a service disruption in the U.K. of its card payment services. According...
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1.9KRetailStarbucks And Chase Partner On Prepaid Visa
In their ongoing mutual mission to make coffee purchases more rewarding, Starbucks and Chase are rolling out the Starbucks Rewards Visa Prepaid Card....
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1.9KRegulationThe Next Round Of Lobbying Battles Over Swipe Fees Is Starting
The next round of fights over credit card fees looks like it is gearing up to begin in Washington as Walmart and...
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3.1KToday In DataSkipping The Hype, Finding The Opportunity
The gig economy started out as a way for workers to make a little bit of extra money on the side, but...
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2.9KBiometricsBiometrics Could Be The Future Of mPOS
Tap to pay. Dip to pay. Smile to pay. Forget reinventing the payments wheel — it seems many innovators are looking to replace...
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3.1KVISAVisa Hit With System Failure In UK And Europe
Visa customers in parts of the U.K. and Europe weren’t able to use their cards on Friday (June 1) after a system...
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5.0KMobile PaymentsNXP Teams With Mastercard And Visa To Make Mobile Payments Turnkey For OEMs
NXP Semiconductors, Visa and Mastercard are launching mWallet 2GOm, a white-label service aimed at smoothing efforts to develop mobile wallets. As Rafael...
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2.5KMarketsLatin America Enjoys A Boost In Its Digital Prospects
What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? That longstanding question gained...
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3.6KDataIndia’s Central Bank Holds Firm On Data Storage Mandate
The central bank will not budge. Reuters reports that India’s central bank is “standing firm” on a push to keep payments-related consumer...
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3.2KPayment MethodsSome Large Retailers Not Sold On One-Click Ordering
While Visa and Mastercard are prepared to roll out one-click ordering, some large retailers aren’t convinced. According to The Wall Street Journal,...
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2.4KVISAVisa Invests In YellowPepper To Accelerate Mobile Payments Adoption
To accelerate the adoption of mobile payments and tokenization in Latin America and the Caribbean, Visa has made an investment in YellowPepper,...
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2.1KPayment MethodsVisa, Ingo Money: Pushing Payments Over The Last (Digital) Mile
Think of it as the last mile. Not trucking, packages or logistics. Not a white-glove service that gets furniture assembled in the...
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4.0KSecurity & FraudBanks Take Military Approach To Cybersecurity
In an effort to combat cyberattacks, banks are taking a military approach to their online security. “This is not that different from...
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2.7KB2B 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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2.3KCommerceFive At Five: Amazon Launches Whole Foods Prime Discounts
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the major payments and commerce news of the day. Today’s stories include Amazon’s...
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Visa CEO At JPMorgan Tech Confab: Progress Continues in Europe, Contactless Payments
On Tuesday (May 15), Senior Analyst Tien-Tsin Huang of JPMorgan Securities interviewed Visa CEO Alfred Kelly at the JPMorgan Chase Global Technology, Media and...
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2.6KVISAVisa In Search Of A Traveler To Show Off Cashless Travel
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (May 15) its launch of a search for a travel enthusiast to send on an international...
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2.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVisa And PayPal Extend Partnership To Canada
Visa and PayPal announced news on Wednesday (May 9) that they have expanded their strategic partnership to include Canada, where the two companies...
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2.4KVISAVisa Claims Resolution Already Speeding Up Dispute Process
MyChargeBack, an international facilitator of chargeback requests, has revealed that the new Visa Claims Resolution (VCR) policy is already speeding up the processing...
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2.6KVISAVisa Expands Real-Time Push Payments Platform In Canada
Building upon its global network for domestic and cross-border payments to businesses and consumers, Visa is expanding Visa Direct in Canada. Peoples...
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3.8KSizzle/FizzleRobots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing
Fizzle of the Week: Timing Spring has finally arrived across the United States, and love is in the air. Even on Facebook....
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3.1KAPIVisa ‘Hackathon’ Produces A Digital Payment Tool For Small Businesses
Its name is Hermyz. Its mission, which just won the official admiration of Visa, is to move small businesses away from checks...
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1.3KToday In DataThe Results Are In
In its quarterly earnings call, PayPal was bullish on mobile, which was perhaps to be expected with the kinds of recruitment and...
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With Cross-Border Volumes Up 11 Pct, Visa Tops FY 2Q Views
Visa logged double digit growth over several key areas, from overall transactions processed to cross-border volumes. Results topped estimates, and as management...
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3.1KEarningsPayPal Adds 8M Active Users, Grows Mobile Volume 52 Percent
“I’m pleased to say PayPal had another quarter of great results and we’re off to a great start in the new year,”...
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2.1KVISAVisa Brings In New Head Of Investor Relations
Visa has named Mike Milotich as senior vice president of investor relations, effective immediately. He takes over for Jack Carsky, who retired...
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4.5KVISAVisa Digital Commerce Aims To Streamline, Standardize Digital Checkout
Ubiquity of acceptance is payments’ holy grail. It’s an experience that people living in the developed world have learned to expect each...
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3.9KB2B 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...
