PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Which brands will blow it? Will Tom Brady turn in his jersey after the game for an AARP card and hit the celebrity golf circuit? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. Gambling Landscape.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

In payments, brand matters, more so now than it ever did, and for SMBs adopting mobile commerce initiatives, speed matters too – speed to market and speed to accepting payments in any manner customers desire. Clerico told Webster that the pricing is set at 2.75 percent per transaction plus a $0.30

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March, Casely teamed up with Westerly, Rhode Island-based Ivory Ella , an online for-profit retail company that donates a percentage of profits to organizations, including Save the Elephants. Consumers now are socially conscious and holding brands accountable,” he said. “I

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What was once a small but meaningful constituency — online shoppers — suddenly seem to be holding all the cards. How consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and subscription-based businesses respond to this important trend will be make-or-break for many. The very air abounds in examples these days, few better than Shopify.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

When the chips are down, consumers love and trust their debit cards. Debit cards remain the payment method of choice among U.S. consumers, regardless of whether they are shopping online or in stores, according to recent reports,” notes PYMNTS October Next-Gen Debit Tracker® done in collaboration with PULSE , A Discover Company. “One

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Digital Shadows , the industry leader in digital risk management, revealed its findings on the changing habits and tactics of organized credit card fraud gangs, discovering a new trend in the form of remote learning “schools.”. In just two of the most popular ‘carding’ forums, 1.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

The need to address verification challenges is growing around the world, as customers rely more on online services for ordering food and drink, leading to fierce competition among delivery services. Take the Uber -branded delivery service, Uber Eats , which recently expanded its services in Canada. Around the Digital Onboarding World.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Using those models, the trailing 12-month, non-adjusted, online retail sales numbers show an increase of 31.4 Marketplaces and brands now make it easy now to auto-refill everything from paper towels to pet food, skin crèmes to salty snacks, bottled water to baby wipes. CPG Goes Online — And To Auto-Refill.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The 6-year-old who get his hands on Mom’s iPad and manages to rack up $16,000 worth of credit charges for online gaming. The teenager with a Fortnite habit who manages to clean out Dad’s checking account via the debit card linked to the gaming account. It runs on credit rails, but it's not a traditional credit card,” MacDonald said.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Consumers are more willing to shop in stores than they were in June, in fact, on one condition: Retailers must allow them to pay using the digital to order online for curbside pickup.”. People Want To Go To Stores, But …. Driving Digital-First Foot Traffic.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Both payment providers and retailers must come up with new ways to engineer the loyalty of shoppers, with multiple options and ways to interact with brands. In the latest Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker , PYMNTS examines how BNPL solutions are growing and expanding in retail worldwide, for both in-store and online shopping.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic — which has forced all of us online — is exposing just who in financial services has embraced digitization, and who is truly digital native. We now must bank entirely online, by necessity. And many of us must transact entirely online, by necessity, to get the goods and services we need on a daily basis.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Visa recently announced a new policy to help shoppers alleviate this pain point.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

While the holiday retail rush meant big gains for some retailers, it also came with an influx of fraud, both in-store and online, as fraudsters took advantage of a high-pace, high-volume period of transactions. In fact, over 5 percent of online retail revenue is now lost to fraud. credit card losses will exceed $12 billion.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

On the Walmart side, the main benefits for $98 a year are free grocery deliveries (and other products) above $35, and scan-and-go (contactless) payments within the app. We have three ideas: First, it’s a branding play. It didn’t have back-to-school as a true season this year, and Amazon still holds its cards for Prime Day.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

If you’re an online merchant, you may be all too familiar with this drill. A shopper finds you online, finds a product to buy, fills their cart and hits the checkout button. Maybe the card has expired. If it’s a debit card, bank account or prepaid card, maybe there aren’t enough funds available for the purchase.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Amazon reported that online grocery and new Prime signups drove its Q2 earnings, while physical-store sales at Whole Foods were down 13 percent. Amazon reported on its Q2 earnings call that third-party sellers saw higher revenue growth than online stores on the Amazon platform. billion daily searches that happen on Google’s platform.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

They sometimes pretend to be real retail chains like Dollar Tree and Foot Locker, or big department stores like Dillard’s and Nordstrom, or online product bazaars like Zappos.com and Polyvore, or even luxury brands like Jimmy Choo, Christian Dior and Salvatore Ferragamo. It’s a game of Whac-a-Mole,” Mr. Mason of Branding Brand said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Consumers in the pre-pandemic world rarely used the question of available payment methods as a criterion when deciding where to shop, largely because the vast majority of merchants probably took whatever card was in a customer’s wallet. It could be a QR code, a contactless card [or] a mobile wallet on the phone.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

According to payments services provider FIS (via a report from CasinoBeats.com ), “digital wallets will be the preferred method of payment for online gambling activities globally in three years, as further major legislative changes come to the fore. is one of the main examples of that, and a target of EML’s prepaid business expansion plans.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. Brands see this digital shift in their numbers, even as stores have reopened and physical sales have started to increase. The Path Forward.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

But those illegal marketplaces — often called the “Dark Web” — also present a juicy opportunity for those fighting fraud to detect and even preempt criminal activities than cost businesses revenue and, often, parts of their brand reputation. Early Warning Value. Enough of the basics. But that goes only so far.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

That’s what led him to Goodworld, an online platform that removes the friction from digital donations, making them possible (and secure) by using hashtags. Those issues were the main topics during a recent discussion between Gossart and Karen Webster for the latest edition of the PYMNTS Matchmakers podcast series. Payments Facilitator.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

Groupon , the deal website operator, announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that is buying Cloud Savings Company, the parent company of online discount code platform Vouchercloud and brand loyalty provider Giftcloud. Currently, Vouchercloud operates in 11 countries, with its main focus in the U.K.

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MARCH 26, 2019

If the consumer has a credit card saved with Amazon or Google, the company can charge the card with permission, so the consumer doesn’t have to go through the extra step of entering payment information during the ordering process. The employee or wait staff wouldn’t know the difference between a voice or an online order.

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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

MARCH 14, 2018

From day one, said LaBella, the focus and main customer was the recipient – unlike the majority of remittance platforms, which are most focused on getting the sender to establish an account to initiate the payment. Recipients are then able to use those funds to shop online and/or pay bills. The Trust Factor. What’s In It For Walmart?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Ordering must not only be seamless, but needs to keep customers’ identities and card details safe. As the mobile app space gets more saturated, most brands are leaning hard on their loyalty and rewards programs for a boost. How are brands responding to the needs of these two distinct customer bases?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The company says it is improving on the nail salon model by offering online booking tools, ethical business practices, and high-quality services at reasonable prices. Follain — Gaelic for “healthy, wholesome, and sound” — features a curated portfolio of skincare, hair care, and cosmetics products from over 40 US brands.

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JUNE 16, 2019

As for Target, the “retailer said Saturday that registers were fully back online and said the outage was due to an ‘internal technology issue”’ and was not security related. Triad’s main business is selling advertising space on the websites of retailers and helping brands create digital advertising campaigns.

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BankBazaar

JUNE 22, 2020

Do your research, compare your options, and buy the best one (preferably of a reputed brand even if you have to shell out a little extra). There’s a wide collection of geysers available from top brands such as Crompton, Bajaj, Hindware, Usha, Havells and more. Additional Reading: Credit Card Purchases Converted Into EMI: Yay Or Nay?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

His main exposure to the payments industry was using his Bank of America debit card to pay for things at the store. That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Karen Webster and Rich Stuppy, chief customer experience officer at Kount , talked about all the recent digital and mobile strides that QSRs have been making — and why they are still behind the curve when it comes to protecting their technology, customers and brand reputations from online criminals.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

To that end, Goldman Sachs Group, undergoing a very public transformation from Wall Street titan pivoting toward filling the the financial needs of Main Street, is reportedly in discussions with Amazon to bring small business loans to Amazon’s platform. Like the Apple effort, the Amazon lending partnership would be co-branded.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Then, my thoughts immediately jumped to the opportunities this new tender type could create for online merchants. card network in 1985 by turning a merchant’s cardholder base – 25 million Sears customers – into Discover cardholders by letting them use those cards at other merchants. Guess what? Because Everyone Has to Eat.

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