PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S., Gas stations are encouraging it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

In a payments landscape that is ever-changing and rapidly growing, having a focus on innovation that takes that same approach is significant. As Peter Read , President of Peoples Card Services , recently pointed out to PYMNTS, needs are never static, and neither should the payments innovation aimed at addressing them.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Mastercard has moved into point-of-sale financing with the acquisition of Vyze, a FinTech firm the payment card network calls an “an end-to-end platform that facilitates financing options for merchants’ customers at checkout.”. As well, Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Dorchester said the pace of payments and security innovation has picked up significantly over the past five years — and that’s a good thing, as it generates new options for businesses to leverage the best of both worlds. Pacing and fear are the two main factors holding payments back, said Dorchester.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You might be shocked to discover that fully 42 percent of businesses still used paper checks as their main payment method in 2019. Statistical swarms of millennials and Gen Zers report never having used a paper check. Banking on Instant. workforce in 2020.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Millennials have shown remarkable interest in these solutions, which allow consumers to finance purchases with specific terms when they check out online. Millennials lead in the early adoption of BNPL, especially older “ bridge millennials ,” or those aged 32 to 41 who tend to have more purchasing power than their younger counterparts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Yet, what if these companies extended their presence into banking by offering accounts that improved the way consumers use and manage their credit cards and debit accounts? For the Building A Better App: Banks And The Innovation Imperative Report , a collaboration with Ondot , PYMNTS surveyed more than 3,000 U.S. In fact, 24.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And so a sheepherding innovation – and new vocabulary word – was born. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Analysts pinpoint certain companies as bellwethers for the performance of a sector.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

It’s no wonder why retailers love gift cards – they are known to drive foot traffic, increase revenue, boost their customer base and complement retention efforts. But as consumers continue to move toward a digital option for their gift card needs, could a retailer’s dream turn into an actual nightmare?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

For the purposes of this exercise, we’re going to describe the “typical” grocery shopper – a bridge millennial, a 36-year-old mom of 1.93 Our shopper will use her card-on-file with her supermarket. This compares to 39 percent who wanted to register credit cards and 44 percent who wanted to register debit cards last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“ Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay an annual fee for one of its charge card products. As the slogan implied, being an American Express card member was the only way to unlock those benefits. Those are the 47 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Brad Fauss, CEO of the National Branded Pre-Paid Card Association and MPD CEO Karen Webster dug into the potential for these rules to create the kind of inconsistencies that could very well disadvantage the very consumers that the CFPB intended to protect. Who Uses Prepaid Anyway? So far, so good.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Fraud has become particularly problematic in the United Kingdom, where last year card-based losses increased by 19 percent compared to the previous year. A report by Lloyds Bank noted that the share of millennial consumers who fall victim to scams increased by 400 percent in the past year, even though overall fraud incidents declined.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

But playing and delivery methods keep changing, with Ohio of all places — no offense to the Buckeye State, home to multiple presidents and the Wright Brothers’ aerodynamic innovations — accounting for some of the latest developments. Consumers go Buehler’s , Giant Eagle or Kroger locations to buy the lottery card.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

For Mastercard , the acquisition furthers its continued strategy to move well beyond cards, to deepen its presence in account-to-account activity and to extend its position beyond credit and debit cards. Weddings, the Millennial Way? Why Mastercard Acquired Nets. Bank Regulators Probe Amazon Cloud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. Consumers won’t be walking up to a cashier after standing in a checkout line to swipe a card when they visit a store.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Corporate buyers can pay more rapidly online with credit cards, benefitting sellers, and enjoy easy access to detailed, searchable information to guide their purchasing decisions. B2B sellers know they must offer eCommerce sales channels if they want to appeal to today’s corporate buyers — many of whom are millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Payments and other forms of innovation and disruption are taking place as the gig lifestyle spreads across the world and seeps ever further into the daily lives of consumers while becoming more critical to business. Among the main challenges? The reliance on cash in many of the markets served by UReed, Alhassan said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On its eCommerce website, the company accepts credit cards, PayPal and Google Pay at checkout. Each of the company’s bars uses its upcycled SuperGrain+ flour as the main ingredient. It is finding a lot of success, as might be expected, with people like urban millennials, Kurzrock noted, and similar groups.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Fortunately, it appears the recreational market is getting some much-needed innovation to help organizations and associations process payments and participant registration. One company that is innovating in the sports and recreation industry is Amilia, an online registration and membership management platform.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2019

The main complaint about Amazon ’s retail horoscopes is that they were a bit boring and generic. Sanctuary Ventures , which describes itself as “the first global media lifestyle brand serving a horoscope/tarot/supernatural-seeking millennial audience,” recently raised $1.5 Not All Horoscopes Are Good Horoscopes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The challenger bank acquired a banking license when it launched, and offers each customer a fixed savings account, two credit cards and an app that offers personal spending advice. Challenger banks are not only delivering an innovative and smartphone-first approach to financial services. In the U.S.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The day focused mostly on mobile wallets, with a few main points shared below: Mobile wallets have been challenged by industry barriers : The old rule of thumb with a payments scheme is that it needs to please three parties: the merchant, the bank, and the consumer. I was only able to attend the final day, but it didn’t disappoint.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Or are the 27 percent of the population — those high-income Bridge Millennials and Gen X-ers with college degrees who are steps away from financial catastrophe — happy, even if they do report feeling more positive about the stability of their financial situation than they did this time a year ago? Sixty-six (66) percent have credit cards.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Across generations, PYMNTS’ research found that 40 percent each of Gen Zs, millennials and bridge millennials (respondents born between 1979 and 1988) say that they either won’t or likely won’t get the vaccine, 25 percent more than those who say they very likely or likely will. The remainder were somewhat likely.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Visa says cybercriminals are using new strategies to steal credit card information from around the country. Millennials Make Big Push For B2B Personalization. The rise of the so-called smart home — powered in large part by voice-assisted retail and payments — will be one of the main trendlines of the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2018

billion on candy and $400 million on greeting cards. More than 31 million Americans plan to dress up their pets this year for Halloween, with millennials leading the pack, so to speak. In short, it’s a product that should not be – and a piece of technicolor proof that not every innovation is a good innovation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Of the 41 percent of consumers who we reported still concentrate their grocery spend predominantly online, more than a third of those physical shoppers (37 percent of the 41 percent) visit multiple stores in search of “deals” and products not found at their main “go-to” store — and two-thirds of millennials do.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2016

In a Fireside chat with MPD CEO Karen Webster at this year’s PYMNTS Innovation Project , Paul Galant, Verifone CEO , said it’s really about the day-to-day efforts of delivering efficiency, security and ubiquity. PRIORITIZING INNOVATION. In Galant’s opinion, any innovation that doesn’t have a business model is simply a waste of time.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And its popularity with young consumers (77 percent of millennials used mobile banking within the past month) means that more consumers are likely to embrace these new practices each year. USAA was not the only digital banking platform to debut new services and innovations recently. Around The Digital Banking World.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. Consumers still overwhelmingly rely on credit and debit cards and cash for payments and will for some time, even if a chip on the smartphone replaces plastic cards.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

With more millennial consumers joining the banking systems, companies are turning to the technologies this generation uses on a daily basis to help them deliver more modern banking solutions. Another challenger institution, Starling Bank, began beta testing an app and will issue a Mastercard debit card to its users. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

I was reminded of this phenomenon recently after scanning a bunch of stories that described a variety of “disruptive” innovations in payments. Over the years, outdoor bazaars became main streets which morphed into malls and now online marketplaces where sellers and buyers meet to do business. Even payments cards charge both sides.

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