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1.4KNewsFive At Five: New Swipe Fee Settlement Worth $6.2B
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes details of the Visa...
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2.2KLegalVisa, Mastercard Settle $6.2B Swipe Fee Lawsuit
A $6.2 billion settlement has been reached by Visa, Mastercard and several U.S. banks over a suit brought by merchants over what...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsTD Bank Taps Into FinTech For B2B Payments
TD Bank is announcing a FinTech collaboration today (Sept. 18) to enhance its corporate payment offerings. The bank said it is integrating...
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2.6KVISAFrom Startup To Global Payments Giant: Visa Turns 60
Sixty years ago today (Sept. 18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern...
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1.8KPayments InnovationWhy Certainty Rules Payments
I needed a few outdoor cushions earlier this season and hired a local upholstery shop to make them. This small business is...
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1.6KFaster PaymentsFlorence’s Aftermath: Have Insurance Claims Payments Evolved Since Hurricanes Harvey And Irma?
Exactly one year before Hurricane Florence began her reign of terror in the Carolinas, Karen Webster interviewed’s CEO Drew Edwards and Visa’s...
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1.5KEconomyHurricane Florence’s Retail Punch
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote, “into every life, a little rain must fall,” a piece of poetry that will become a reality...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsVisa B2B Payments Tap Into Real Estate Market
Visa‘s next initiative to disrupt B2B payments is focusing on the real estate market. The company is pairing up with Nexus Systems,...
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4.2KRidesharingWhat Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash
Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their...
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2.6KRetailVisa Highlights Contactless Payments At New York Fashion Week
To help consumers experience new ways to pay, Visa has announced a new relationship with New York Fashion Week: The Shows. Through the...
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1.8KVISAVisa Launches Program To Help SMBs Post-Natural Disaster
Visa announced the launch of The Visa Back to Business Project, which allows U.S. consumers to support small businesses (SMBs) affected by federally...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsUMB Boosts Expense Management With Fraedom Collab
U.K. corporate expense management solutions provider Fraedom, which was recently acquired by Visa, will be providing its commercial card technology to U.S.-based...
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3.3KFaster PaymentsTRENDING: Challenger Bank Finds Instant Rewards In Faster Payments
Around the globe, new payment schemes are on the rise. In the Eurozone, the Eurosystem’s new process for settling instant payments is...
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5.6KRidesharingUber’s Newest Project? Reinventing Its Payments Experience
The transportation company that innovated payments by delivering the Uber experience is at it again — this time, by making it easier...
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5.7KPayments InnovationNew Podcast: Rambus CTO On Securing Remote Commerce And Ditching The Friction
As Sam Cooke sang: “It’s been a long time comin’ … but I know a change is gonna come.” Commerce changes slowly,...
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1.8KDigital PaymentsWhat’s the Future For Payment Cards?
What does the future hold for the plastic payment card? Will it go the way of the check — still in use, but...
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3.3KCommerceThe PYMNTS 2018 Summer Top 10 List
Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. It’s a matter of some...
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1.3KInnovationThe Multiple Parts of Innovation
What did you do in high school? Unless you were a roadie for a major rock band — and you weren’t —...
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3.6KInnovationHow Five High School Kids Are Changing Payments For The Visually Impaired
Right now, it looks like a blood pressure cuff with wires and tiny boxes attached to it. Or, perhaps, an oversized watchband,...
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535InternationalThe Tech And Payments Promise Of Africa
The next great tech frontier? That would be Africa, according to recent comments from Alibaba Group Holding’s founder and chairman Jack Ma....
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3.4KVISAVisa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud At U.S. Merchants By 75 Percent
Data released by Visa on Wednesday (Aug. 29) showed that counterfeit fraud ticked down at U.S. merchants by 75 percent from September...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsFinTech/FI Collaborations In Mexico And Beyond
There are any number of government initiatives pairing FinTech with traditional FIs, and now Mexico joins the roster with renewed focus. Only...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsFinTech Finds Favor With Visa, Gains Traction In Mexico
Paidy linked up with Visa via strategic investment this week, while Mexico's government wants to see greater financial inclusion with joint efforts...
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2.3KSecurity & FraudBank Of Spain Site Disrupted Via DoS Attack
The Bank of Spain’s website has been temporarily disrupted since Sunday (Aug. 26) due to a cyberattack. According to Reuters, the bank...
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2.2KInvestmentsVisa Makes Strategic Investment In Paidy
Visa has made a strategic investment in Paidy, which offers instantly issued post-pay credit services for eCommerce consumers based in Japan. The...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsACI Worldwide Powers Fleet Tax Payments
Electronic payments company ACI Worldwide is integrating its technologies with SPAN Enterprises, a tax filing technology provider, to power tax payments for...
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2.1KEconomyWhy It’s Time To Stop Making FX The Corporate Earnings Scapegoat
Consider it the new normal. Consider it a rollercoaster ride. Consider it a reason to drink, down antacids or aspirin, or crawl...
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4.8KDigital PaymentsBrowser Or Buy Button? W3C’s Jacobs On The Payment Request API
Native apps are boring and the web is not dead, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee in November of 2014, on the 25th anniversary...
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1.7KVISAVisa, Grasp Tech Team Aim To Simplify Biz Travel
Visa has announced it is partnering Grasp Technologies, a leading provider of data management, visualization and payment solutions in the Travel and Expense...
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2.4KInternationalVisa, Mastercard Replaced By MIR In Crimean Peninsula
Visa and Mastercard have been replaced on Russia‘s Crimean peninsula, as its largest bank has completed the process of switching all credit cards...
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1.2KInvestmentsRetail, Tech Get New Life In Burgeoning Economy
Some prominent hedge fund managers are feeling optimistic about the U.S. economy, especially when it comes to retail and technology. According to...
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2.7KInternationalVisa, Mastercard Cut Canadian Interchange Fees
Visa and Mastercard have agreed to cut Canadian credit card transaction fees, which could save smaller businesses (SMBs) C$250 million ($192 million)...
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1.5KNewsFive At Five: Even Financial Gets New Funding Round
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Even Financial...
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4.1KVISAVisa Invests In Israeli Startup Behalf
Visa announced Tuesday (August 7) that it has made an investment in and inked a partnership with Behalf, an Israeli startup. In a...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsVisa Expands SMB Service In Kenya With Alt-Lender
Visa is expanding its presence with small businesses in Kenya through a new partnership with alternative lender Branch International, a mobile small...
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1.4KData DiveThe Stand-Offs Edition: Kroger Vs. Visa; Apple Vs. Huawei; Ant Financial Vs. Banking
While generally aiming to be friction-free, a bit of striking out, a touch of competition and, perhaps, a slightly looming threat of...
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2.3KInnovationFor FI Innovation In LatAm, Think VC, Not PE
A little tech goes a long way, in getting banking customers to make the switch from paper to digital. But loyalty can...
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4.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVisa, Sabre Pair On Travel Payments
Visa has announced a strategic global partnership with Sabre that will allow the technology provider for the travel industry to utilize CyberSource,...
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2.5KNewsFive At Five: Facebook Hit By GDPR On Monthly Users
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Facebook getting...
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2.3KPayment MethodsCalifornia Kroger Subsidiary Says No To Visa
Foods Co, a subsidiary of grocery giant Kroger, has announced that 21 of its grocery stores and five of its gas stations...
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1.1KSizzle/FizzleCar Subscriptions Sizzle, Facebook Fizzles And Google Admirably Races On Against Amazon
Amazon — with the whole the Alexa/Echo ecosystem — is not an easy competitor to race with. Looking at the marketplace for...
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2.0KVISAFIFA World Cup Fans Turn To Contactless Payments For In-Stadium Spending
France wasn’t the only winner at the FIFA World Cup: Payments innovation won big, too, with contactless payments accounting for 45 percent...
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2.0KVISAVisa Payments Volume Surges 11 Pct, X-Border Swells Double-Digits
Payments giant Visa reported fiscal third quarter results that showed continued momentum on the international stage, with cross-border transactions up 10 percent...
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2.3KNewsFive At Five: Apple Pay Joins eBay Ecosystem
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes eBay entering a...
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4.9KVISAMoneyGram And Visa Team To Deliver Real-Time Global P2P
MoneyGram and Visa announced today (July 24) that they have partnered to deliver real-time digital disbursements to MoneyGram customers using Visa’s push...
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7.9KeCommerceVisa: Cost Of Digital Acceptance 57 Pct Less Than Cost Of Cash Acceptance For SMBs
It’s a striking difference: A new Visa study has found that digital accounts for 38 percent of consumer retail purchases, but when it...
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2.1KGlobal PaymentsVisa Everywhere Teams Advance To Finals, PaySense Notches $18M In Funding
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Farfetch‘s acquisition of CuriosityChina. In addition, teams...
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1.8KGlobal PaymentsVisa Offers payWave In India; PayPoint Teams Up With Anywhere Sim
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Visa’s offering of payWave in India...
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1.3KPoint of SaleNFC-Enabled POS Terminals Numbered Nearly 25M Worldwide In 2017
A new report has found that the global installed base of point-of-sale (POS) terminals grew to almost 109 million units in 2017....
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3.5KGlobal 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....
