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1.1KFaster PaymentsInside Visa And Vantiv’s Plan To Pay SMBs Faster
While debit cards have been accessible to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with business checking accounts, they’re not among the most heavily...
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3.0KRetailFIS: Why Retailers Must Put Payments At The Tip Of The Spear
As consumers, payments and channels evolve, many traditional merchants have been holding onto solvency by their fingernails. Most would not call the...
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1.8KSecurity & FraudVisa And Mastercard Warn Of 200K Vulnerable Credit Cards From Equifax Leak
Visa and Mastercard are warning financial institutions across the country that more than 200,000 credit cards were compromised during the Equifax hack....
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2.0KVISAVisa And Vantiv Debut FastAccess Funding
Credit and debit card payments processing company Vantiv and Visa announced news on Thursday that they have jointly debuted FastAccess Funding, which...
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2.5KVISAWhy Harvey And Irma Will Change Insurance Claims Payments Forever
Natural disasters are horrifically destructive events. Out of the total economic losses attributed to the destruction caused by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, which could...
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2.5KMobile 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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635Payment MethodsVisa Names Bank Of England Executive To Head European Operations
Payments processor Visa announced Thursday (Sept. 7) it has named Charlotte Hogg as the new executive vice president and chief executive officer...
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2.8KPayment MethodsGroupon Launches Rewards Program For Visa, Mastercard Foodies
Daily deal website operator Groupon announced Thursday (Sept. 7) the launch of Groupon+, a free to claim, cash back restaurant deals platform....
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2.2KPayment MethodsVisa And BillDesk Bring Bharat QR To More Than 300M Consumers
Payment processor company Visa and BillDesk, an India-based electronic payments provider, announced Wednesday (Sept. 6) they had successfully enabled 50 large service...
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5.7KInternet of ThingsInside Visa’s IoT Playbook
When Tony Fadell, iPod creator and Internet of Things innovator as the founder of NEST, took the stage at the Innovation Project...
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1.8KPayment MethodsVisa Gauges Contactless Payments Progress 10 Years After Its Introduction
The U.K. is leading contactless payments adoptions 10 years after the technology first emerged, according to a new report from Visa. The...
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2.1KPayment MethodsTwo Cryptocurrency Debit Card Companies Run Into Trouble With Visa
Shakepay and Xapo, the two companies pushing cryptocurrency debit cards, are running into problems with Visa, which has reportedly told them to...
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2.6KPayment MethodsVisa Powering Payments on New Garmin Wearable Aims to Stop ‘Sweaty Money’
Keeping up with the wearables/payments/fitness players is a workout in and of itself. Add Garmin to the mix with a new device,...
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1.9KRetailThe Fitbit Ionic: One Wearable To Rule Them All?
The war for wearable dominance is heating up, and the team at Fitbit is making a power play for top position. On...
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3.4KMobile CommerceVisa Payments, (Truly) Mobile With Fitbit’s Ionic Smartwatch
Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the...
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1.8KPayment MethodsProfits Up More Than 130 percent In Klarna’s Half-Year Report
Klarna, the online payments firm based in Sweden, and one of the unicorns that came of age with a more than $1-billion...
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1.7KStartup Check-InFitPay and NXT-ID: Securing Contactless Payments One Device At A Time
Gone are the days where most people kept a few dollars in their wallets. Today’s consumers are turning to card and contactless...
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2.6KRidesharingUber Relaunches Visa Rewards Program
On Wednesday (Aug. 23), ridesharing platform Uber announced the relaunch of Visa Local Offers, a rewards program giving Uber riders around the...
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2.8KInternationalThe Chinese Consumer On The International Commerce Stage
In late July, PayPal and Baidu captured the world’s attention when they inked a strategic partnership that gives Baidu’s 100 million or...
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3.6KPayments InnovationPayments Innovation: Beyond The ‘Wow’
What would you say if someone asked you to name the most important innovation in payments over the last five years? We...
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3.5KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Bitcoin Cash, What’s Next For Retailers?
All is not running business as usual in the bitcoin realm. The digital currency that has been around for nearly a decade...
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3.8KToday In DataToday in Data: QR Codes in Payments
QR codes are making waves in the digital payments arena. What was once just a way to encode information made available upon...
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5.7KPayment MethodsVisa And The QR Code Evolution/Revolution
The QR code hasn’t always seemed like a world-changing technology. When it first appeared in the developed world approximately two decades ago...
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5.6KVISAVisa Fortifies India, South Asia Teams With New Appointments
Visa, a global payments technology company serving more than 200 countries and territories, has announced two new appointments to its India and...
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5.4KPayment MethodsUber, Lyft To Roll Out Co-Branded Credit Cards
Uber Technologies and Lyft, the two ride-hailing startups, are reportedly getting into the payments markets with their own credit cards. According to...
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2.1KPayment MethodsSoftware Developed Specifically For The Smallest Businesses
Entrepreneurs can be a lot of things – CPA, however, isn’t often a common denominator. That’s why, as he explained in the...
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3.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVisa And Marqeta To Transform Global Card Issuance
If the payments landscape is marked by entrenched players partnering with smaller firms making their mark in digital payments, add one more...
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3.6KVISAVisa Announces Plan To Open Two New Data Hubs
“Our mission is to be the best way to pay for everyone anywhere,” Visa’s Executive Vice President of Technology Rajat Taneja, told...
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3.1KPayment MethodsNEW REPORT: Getting SMBs Off The Software Sidelines
Sometimes, even the best businesses, big and small, need a little help from software. Whether its finding and keeping loyal customers or...
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4.1KData DriversBricks And Mortar, With A Dash Of Service For Customer Stickiness
Can bricks-and-mortar survive the eCommerce onslaught? In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Dave Barrowman, who serves as Vice President of Innovation...
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2.1KToday In DataToday in Data: Friday Earnings Update
It’s earnings time again, and many companies have shared their numbers for the end of their respective sales quarters. In a mix...
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2.8KBankingAMEX, Mastercard And Visa Submit Licenses To Operate In China
American Express, Mastercard and Visa are gearing up to submit licenses to get permission to operate in China. Reuters, citing three people...
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1.9KPayment MethodsNetspend And United Airlines Roll Out MileagePlus Go Visa Prepaid Card
Netspend, the prepaid card provider owned by TSYS Company, recently announced the launch of the United MileagePlus GO Visa Prepaid Card in...
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2.9KVISAVisa Beats 3Q Estimates As Payments Volume Leaps
Double-digit transaction growth and strength in Europe boosted Visa’s earnings beyond the Street’s expectations, while management also gave the lift to expected revenue...
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2.1KRetailMileagePlus GO Visa Prepaid Card Earns Holders United Airlines Miles
Holders of the new prepaid card from Netspend will rack up frequent flyer miles for every dollar they spend on qualifying purchases....
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3.9KSouth East AsiaChina’s Amazing Cashless Conversion
While there is still much in the way of debate in the U.S. and the rest of the developed West about the...
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4.5KPayment MethodsMastercard Expanding Scan-To-Pay QR Program
Mastercard is expanding its QR-based programs to create greater choice in retail mobile payments. The company today announced news of its plans...
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3.8KDigital PaymentsPayPal And Visa Extend Partnership To Europe, Plan Debit Card Release
Rivals Visa and PayPal have shaken hands over a joint plan to issue debit cards in Europe. The truce stands to benefit...
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2.6KPersonnelFormer Visa Head To Lead Bank Of New York Mellon
The Bank of New York Mellon announced Monday (July 17) that it named Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer and a director...
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3.2KMobile CommerceVisa Rolls Out Free Person-to-Person Digital Payments In Kenya
Visa, the credit card company, is enabling customers of Kenya Visa-affiliated banks to send online payments without paying transactions fees. According to...
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3.2KPayment MethodsUnionPay Leading The Pack In The Global Card Market
Mastercard and Visa are losing market share to UnionPay when it comes to the global cards market. That’s according to new research...
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Visa Hopes To Draw More SMBs Into Digital Payments With Its ‘Cashless Challenge’
Visa wants SMBs nationwide to go cashless. It also thinks better education about the benefits of doing so is the key to...
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1.4KIPOUSA Technologies Eyes Public Offering
The payment technology service provider USA Technologies, Inc., (USAT) which powers integrated cashless and mobile transactions in self-service retail settings, may go public,...
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3.0KPayment Methods
Visa Looks To Bring QR Code Payments To Taiwan
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay all debuted in Taiwan this spring, but Visa still thinks there’s untapped opportunity in this...
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4.1KVISAVisa’s Long-Term View On Klarna
Visa just took an equity stake in Klarna, strategic intent as a motivator. Here’s what lies behind the nascent partnership, looking toward Europe,...
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5.5KInternet of ThingsThe Connected Commerce Network Effect
The world’s not ready for the Internet of Things (IoT). Oh, consumers are excited, and they have embraced connected commerce with both...
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1.7KPayment MethodsIngenico Names Nicolas Huss of Visa As EVP Strategy & Performance
Ingenico Group, the global payment company, announced Monday (July 3) the appointment of Nicolas Huss as executive vice president of strategy and...
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1.5KVISAVisa And Interswitch Partner To Speed Up Mobile Payments
Visa, the credit card company, and Interswitch, Africa’s integrated payments and transaction solutions company, announced news on Friday (June 30) that they...
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2.5KB2B 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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5.7KBlockchainChain CEO On Why B2B Payments Needs Blockchain
The blockchain has a bit of an identity crisis. Everyone who is anyone in financial services knows what it is, and there...
