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2.3KFaster PaymentsWill Waiting For Pay Day Soon Be A Thing Of The Past?
While living paycheck to paycheck is often associated with low-salary or part-time workers, the data tells a different story. As it turns...
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2.1KInternationalIndia Finance Minister Says Visa, Mastercard Losing Local Market Share
In the battle across India for consumer transactions, in the battle for hearts and minds and wallets, might Mastercard and Visa be...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsPNC Bank Tests CNP Fraud Solution For Commercial Cards
PNC Bank’s Treasury Management unit is testing a new solution to address card-not-present (CNP) fraud for commercial clients. The company said in a...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsIxaris Taps Visa To Target B2B Payments In Travel
B2B payments firm Ixaris is collaborating with Visa Europe to introduce new solutions to the travel industry, the company said in a...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsBilltrust And Visa Launch B2B Payments Platform
Visa and Billtrust today (Nov. 5) announced the launch of the Billtrust Business Payments Network (BPN), an open buyer/supplier payments platform that...
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3.8KNewsFive At Five: Would Visa Support Cryptocurrencies?
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest on how...
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3.1KSecurity & FraudVisa’s Expanded Token Services Partner List Now Includes Amazon
Call it the week of tokenized credentials on file, the week of EMVCo and the week of SRC. As noted in these...
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2.2KInvestmentsTech Investors Rotating Into Payments Stocks?
For tech investors, is a rotation a-brewing? When it comes to investing, a rotation occurs when investors take their money out of...
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2.9KVISAVisa Doesn’t View Cryptocurrency As A Business Threat
Visa’s chief executive officer Al Kelly doesn’t think cryptocurrencies are a threat to its business and is ready to implement systems that...
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3.8KVISAVisa B2B Biz Nears The Trillion-Dollar Mark
Double-digit growth marked Visa's key metrics in the latest quarter, from processed transactions to cross-border activity. Management pointed to performance and potential as...
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2.8KNews
Five At Five: Walmart Ups Shipping And Returns Game
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest move by...
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3.6KInvestmentsVisa Invests In Brazil Payment Co Conductor
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. In...
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2.5KVISAVisa Announces Continued Support For EMV Secure Remote Commerce Specification
Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (Oct. 23) that it continues to support the draft of the EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)...
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2.1KNews
Five At Five: Facebook Wants To Buy More Cybersecurity
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest way that...
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2.6KDigital PaymentsFaster Remittances App Uses Visa APIs, Takes Money20/20 Grand Prize
An app designed to speed up the remittance process, designed via Visa APIs, has taken a top honor at Money20/20 in Las Vegas. The win...
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3.1KVISAVisa B2B Connect To Use Digital IDs For X-Border Payments
Visa has announced new product details in anticipation of the first quarter 2019 launch of its new cross-border B2B payments solution B2B...
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6.8KPayments InnovationHow Connected Devices Are Revolutionizing How And Who We Pay
Connected devices — smartphones, tablets, voice-activated speakers, smartwatches, in-car dashboard systems — are changing how consumers in the U.S. buy and pay....
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3.2KSizzle/FizzleeBay, Amazon And eTail’s Royal Rumble
To steal a phrase from the movie Network, eBay is mad as hell, and is not going to take it anymore. The target...
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7.2KVISAVisa Says Cash Discount Programs Violate Network Rules
Visa has released a bulletin revealing that many programs marketed as “cash discount” are non-compliant with the payment company’s rules. The company...
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2.0KConsumer FinanceVisa, NFL Video Game Passes Financial Literacy To Kids
For many students, it was a time of either dread or excitement. The civics teacher, or the home economics instructor, would teach...
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6.0KDigital PaymentsVisa Adds 20 Partners To Fast Track ‘Credentials On File’ Tokenization
Visa announced today the commercial expansion of its Visa Token Service for “credential-on-file token requestors.” This expansion involves adding 20 acquirer gateway...
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4.0KInternationalMastercard, Visa, Amex Face Penalties For Violating India Data Law
Major U.S. payments companies are facing fines for violating a data law in India. According to The New York Times, a new regulation...
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7.4KConsumer FinanceHow Much Of The Consumer’s Paycheck Goes To Amazon?
In 2009, consumers first coined the term “Whole Paycheck” as a tongue-in-cheek way to describe the sticker shock many felt when looking...
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2.6KVISAVisa, Olympic Committee Pair On Integrated Payments
Visa has announced that it is partnering with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to offer enhanced...
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4.6KDigital PaymentsVisa, Postmates Give Gig Workers Instant Pay
Gig work can serve as a lifestyle that offers flexibility and freedom. It can stand as a stop gap that helps people...
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5.4KBlockchainBlockchain Patent Filings Spike
The race for blockchain patents is on, with firms in China and the US making headlines. We get some insight about the...
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3.6KVISAVisa To Update Rules, Services For Dynamic Currency Conversion
To allow ATM operators and acquirers to use Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) around the world, Visa is growing its Visa/Plus ATM services and updating...
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3.0KDigital PaymentsLatin American FinTech Payment ‘Recipes’
Want to understand payments innovation in Latin America? First, let’s talk about ingredients — as in food. Imagine a shopping bag full...
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2.9KNews
Five At Five: Amazon Embraces Prefab
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes news about Amazon’s latest...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsVisa’s B2B Payments Tech Tested In Thailand
Visa is expanding the testing of its B2B payments technology, B2B Connect, into Thailand, according to reports. The Nation reported that B2B Connect...
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5.6KVISAVisa: Why The US Is Finally Ready For Contactless
Contactless cards have been a big hit around the world. In the U.K., the European Union (EU) and Canada, contactless payments account for...
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2.2KNewsFive 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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3.7KLegalVisa, 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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3.5KB2B 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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5.0KVISAFrom 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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6.4KPayments 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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2.7KFaster 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 Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards...
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1.9KEconomyHurricane 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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3.2KB2B 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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8.6KRidesharingWhat 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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3.2KRetail
Visa 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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2.3KVISAVisa 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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2.7KB2B 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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4.7KFaster 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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7.8KRidesharingUber’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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8.7KPayments 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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2.3KDigital 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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4.2KCommerceThe 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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1.7KInnovationThe 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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5.4KInnovationHow 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,...
