PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Goldman Sachs has beat out competitor Barclays to buy General Motors (GM)'s credit card business, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). In their pitches to GM, both Goldman and Barclays promoted the idea of cars as eCommerce portals, a notion supported by auto makers and card networks like Visa and Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. It was also the first platform to introduce a cashback service for online shopping and recently added support for Swipe’s cryptocurrency Visa cards. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Apple Pay’s Digital-First Disconnect.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Also, Goldman Sachs has doled out approximately $10 billion in credit lines for the Apple -branded credit card. And Capital One is back online after a major outage. Goldman Extends $10B In Apple Card Credit In First Month. Apple Card? CapOne Back Online After Major Outage.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Verizon is partnering with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card in the first half of this year, they said on Thursday (Jan. T-Mobile recently started providing banking services through T-Mobile Money, and Amazon and Uber now both offer their own branded cards. 23), according to published reports.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

based NatWest has introduced Apple Pay to its 1 million small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) business banking customers, giving them more options to make payments on the go, LearnerBonds reported on Tuesday (Nov. With Apple Pay, the actual card numbers are not stored on the device or Apple servers. In 2018, some 27.7

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Shoppers can then check out using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay or health savings account (HSA) / flexible spending account (FSA) at launch. For payments, King Children accepts all credit and debit cards. Fitz Frames offers prescription glasses, blue light glasses and sunglasses. Solving Glasses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Meanwhile, Amazon is opening its first branded grocery store , and there are questions about discrimination and the Apple Card. Amazon To Open First Branded Grocery Store. Goldman Denies Discriminatory Apple Card Practices, Says It Will Reassess Limits. Former U.S. 11) before confirming the news.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The bank’s tech needs range from new products such as the Apple Card to its growing dependency on cloud infrastructure. In separate news, reports surfaced in November that Goldman Sachs said it doled out approximately $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple-branded credit card. Apple Card?

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Accenture

MAY 30, 2019

Each quarter, Ryan Douglas from the Card Issuing group compiles key metrics on US consumer credit cards, tracking spend, receivables, loss rates and returns reported by the largest US banks. Credit card profitability remains attractive for banks with our ROA proxies increasing 43 bps YoY?. Notable happenings. New partnerships.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

As retailers scramble to capture the digital shift, it’s easy for some overlooked details, such as unanswered customer complaints, to harm their brands. To prevent this, a new category is emerging around the area of online reputation management , with a luxury automaker among the latest brands to embrace the technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

Apple’s New Chip Groove. Last week’s reports suggest that Apple will soon wave goodbye to its long-term chipmaker, Intel, in favor of making its own chips for Mac computers. The change, according to sources, could be online as early as 2020. percent early last week, despite Apple neither confirming nor denying the rumor.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Penney has had a mobile website and coupons for quite a while, it recently announced news that Apple Pay will be accepted across all of its stores in the United States. Customers visiting the store will now have the capability to make payments on items through their iPhones and Apple Watches. In addition to launching Apple Pay, J.C.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Goldman Sachs is the lead investor in a $50 million funding round for credit card startup Deserve, CNBC reported on Monday (Nov. Deserve offers credit cards to nontraditional consumers and sells its cloud-based platform to companies wanting to launch their own branded cards. Bloom said in a press release at the time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

According to Market Watch , a new report by Piper Jaffray found that teens would rather have those items than cash or gift cards. teenagers’ wish list is Apple ’s latest iPhone. percent of teen’s wish lists, with the top four consumer brands being the iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBooks and Airpods. The top item on U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. The company is also working with issuers, including Citi and Fifth Third Bank, to convert cards on file into tokens.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . Working with our partner, InfoScout, we fielded our latest quarterly consumer study of Apple Pay adoption and usage in early June and just completed our analysis. We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay. PLEASE GIVE ME A TRY!

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer mattress brands as mattress sales move from brick-and-mortar retail to eCommerce. One brand, though, saw a market opportunity as brands like Casper and Leesa took off. But the brands currently on the market were a useful learning experience for Nectar. A Thicker Mattress.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Payments company Stripe is rolling out a new solution that lets businesses create and issue their own credit and debit cards, the company announced on Thursday (July 26). In a press release, Stripe announced the launch of Stripe Issuing, its service that enables companies to create their own cards, both physical and virtual, via an API call.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In addition, Razer ’s mobile wallet dubbed Razer Pay may come to tens of thousands of point-of-sale (POS) terminals in Singapore , and a Worldpay study has found that consumers in Singapore still prefer to make payments with credit cards over eWallets. At the same time, only 13 percent of adult smartphone users in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

BURST Oral Care CEO Hamish Khayat, for instance, told PYMNTS in an interview that he saw a “major gap in the electric toothbrush space” when it came to the margin the big brands made for electric toothbrushes. To provide consumers with a more affordable option, Khayat set out to start the BURST Oral Care brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Helping brands launch their DTC and subscription businesses with the flexibility to sell how their customers want to buy – and fast – is the future of digital commerce.”. Startup brands are taking advantage, and established players are catching up. Payments Drive Digital Experiences for Brands (and Consumers). is investing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

What are credit cards all about? Affirm was founded by Max Levchin in 2012 to help to remedy that merchant-consumer relationship by giving online shoppers an alternative to traditional credit cards and retailer-branded installment loans when shopping online. If you said, “Payments – duh,” you’re only half right.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One of this year’s favorites so far, according to reports in The New York Times, has been fake retail and product apps popping up in the Apple App Store of late. We’re seeing a barrage of fake apps,” said Chris Mason, chief executive of Branding Brand. It’s important that brands monitor how their name is being used.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing. So, what should you be watching?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

“Our new in-store solution is yet another way to support merchants by offering a powerful budgeting tool that allows shoppers to spend their own money over time — whether they prefer to buy in a physical store or online.”. There are real opportunities for those brands that deeply understand their consumer.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

And though this market presents brands with a large audience of potential customers, will digitally native millennials tune in to a shopping network? Through a hosted online show, Gravy has audiences vying for discounts on new products with the added incentive of cash prizes and charity donations. Payments And Cash Back.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Throughout the six-plus-hour grilling, the stock prices of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were all up — and stayed that way throughout the day. Between the close of business on Tuesday and end of day on Friday, though, Barron’s reported that Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Facebook collectively added $370 billion to their market caps.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Merchants must constantly reevaluate their customer-targeting efforts to suit the latest commerce developments, and many are pivoting from brick-and-mortar advertising to focus their outreach online or via social media channels. These trends are in turn ratcheting up the number of customers who are moving to new brands.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Rather than entering new payment information – including address and card details – users can easily enter Amazon account login info. “We’re delighted to offer Amazon Pay to our customers, as it is one of the most secure ways to pay for flights, as the user doesn’t have to re-enter their card details,” he said.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Never in the history of payments has there been such a media-frenzied, corporate disrupting and consumer-captivating moment as last week’s unveiling of Apple Pay as part of this week’s release of the iPhone 6. Apple shrewdly coopted its greatest weakness as an inexperienced new entrant. Where does it go from here? No one really knows.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

However, they are also hesitant to pay for those new experiences with credit cards or other traditional financing options. Other retail brands, such as technology company Apple , are also exploring the potential benefits of BNPL. Consumers are on track to spend about $149 billion via online purchases this holiday season.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But the report noted that “the most common reason managers don’t like features like self-service kiosks and online ordering is that they believe customers don’t like them.” However, many QSRs, from Dunkin’ Brands to Taco Bell , are tuning to these digital innovations. now support Apple Pay. Roughly 83.6

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