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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Might mobile payments help revolutionize corporate cards? It’s been well documented how reliant on paper checks B2B payments have been right up to and even into the pandemic — with a significant percentage of payments being done through those antiquated means.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Most are encouraging employees to work from home while also moving their back-office operations online, and payments operations are no exception. Around The B2B Payments For The Virtual Workforce World. The benefits of using digital B2B payments solutions extend far beyond their ability to support a decentralized workforce.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

This study assessed how restaurants’ customer engagement strategies have evolved since the pandemic's onset, and helped identify the key digital innovations that can help restaurants deliver improved user experiences and boost their average unit volumes (AUVs). These payment types often deprive receivers of immediate access to funds.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

According to Goldman Sachs, the B2B payments space will see volumes topping nearly $200 trillion by 2028, more than five times the volume of B2C payment flows. Technology today can automate a range of workflows surrounding a B2B payment, including invoicing, payment term management and payment processing.

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JUNE 24, 2020

With corporate travel still on pause, commercial card innovation has taken a different direction. This week’s look at the latest initiatives explores how FinTechs are wielding the corporate card in ways other than business trips, from accessing credit for accounts payable to financing employee lunches.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. Telecommuting, online education and moving to a cashless and virtual financial system will likely become the norm,” he told PYMNTS. This most recent black swan is proving that online financial services are a lifeline service.”. But the lesson is to not despair.

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APRIL 24, 2020

As local- and state-level government entities continue to run, it’s not business as usual for the public sector — particularly in the way these entities make and receive payments. It’s been a boon for ACH payments, said Jeff Thorness, president of Forte Payment Systems , a CSG company.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use. They also offer more safeguards against fraud than traditional business credit cards. B2B Virtual Card Purchasing On The Rise. PYMNTS reported that 46.4

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s happened to almost all consumers: They’re idly perusing their credit card statements when they come across completely confusing, seemingly random charges from businesses they don’t recognize in locations they’ve never visited. Consumers panic and call their issuers to question these charges. Building A Better End-To-End Customer Journey.

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JULY 15, 2020

Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs , Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). To use Apple Pay, customers tap the card icon in the Afterpay app, which then activates the Afterpay card in the Apple wallet.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Payments, of course, are a vital part of the whole legal betting process. A key part of user experience is payment speeds.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

A transformation toward contactless payments is underway at the nation’s credit unions as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower infection risks with COVID-19. Offering touchless payments thus has the potential to drive merchants’ performance through consumer preference. The High Stakes Of Offering Contactless.

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MAY 16, 2019

That provides a rough idea of some of the motivation behind Mastercard ’s latest effort in payments and commerce innovation — an effort described in depth in a new PYMNTS interview between Karen Webster and Amnah Ajmal, Mastercard’s executive vice president of core products. Not Just A Number. FinTech Role.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

FinTech SumUp is launching its first card for business payments, in partnership with Mastercard , SumUp announced in a blog post on Tuesday (Feb. The new SumUp Card will enable merchants to quickly access money and monitor finances while making necessary business payments. The card will also help U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But George Connors , senior vice president of gaming and sports solutions at Fiserv , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that other things have remained the same — like online gaming. market as regulatory restrictions were lifted from online gambling in recent years. The user experience has to be good,” he said. “If

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Is the end of credit, debit cards drawing near? Physical cards, they’re not going anywhere,” Sharon Pazlar, director of output solutions for Fiserv told Bank Innovation. “As Financial service firm Fiserv says, no.

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JULY 15, 2020

Livestreaming online shopping is finally gaining momentum in the United States, via an evolving business model from Glamhive. 57.9% : Share of credit-centric revolvers who are interested in payment plans for large purchases. 65.8%: Portion of debit-centric consumers who want card apps to offer easier account management.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

The pandemic has forced businesses to pivot quickly to continue their operations — both domestically and internationally — with relative ease as the health crisis affects everything from supply chains to payment schedules. These digital changes should pertain to more than just payments themselves, however. trillion reported in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Spreedly , a payments infrastructure firm headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, is introducing innovative revenue optimization solutions aimed at increasing conversions. Too often, the complexity of building infrastructure to optimize across multiple payment providers was limited to only the world’s most sophisticated teams.”.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As demand increases for digitally-driven money management solutions, Mastercard has expanded its Digital-First Card Program in North America. Consumers also have fast digital access to card information, including the 16-digit number, CVC2, expiration date and customer service information. and increasingly, also for commerce.” .

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Mastercard is teaming up with Network International , which works in digital commerce for the Middle East and Africa, to help drive the adoption of commercial payment services in that region, according to a press release.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

million credit card customers to more easily manage and pay their balances. The bank’s “Pay by Bank” platform will be enabled by Mastercard’s Open Banking Connect service, which allows mobile and online credit card customers to make safe and instant electronic payments from their accounts.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Consumers want cards, and they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way," said Turner. The company said that through the expansion of its Digital-First Card Program, which was announced last Wednesday (Sept.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

In the midst of these struggles, the payments industry has risen to the occasion and innovated to become an even more integral part of the economy and people’s lives. Throughout the pandemic, payments have been an invaluable tool to connect, support and enact change.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

EXCLUSIVE—Card company Dynamics Inc. revealed its Wallet Card, described by the company as the “world’s first” connected payment card, at the CES conference currently taking place in Las Vegas, the company announced today.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

The corporate card industry continues to dig its heels into adoption efforts with the launch of new products and features designed to elevate the value of the card beyond a mere means of payment. Employees Lack Access To Corporate Cards. WEX Links MYOB Users To Card Payments. Plastiq Loops Into QuickBooks.

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JUNE 15, 2017

There’s no disputing that the pace of innovation in consumer payments over the last several years has been quick and its reach broad. There’s been an abundance of innovation in where consumers shop, what they use to pay when they buy and the devices they use to enable those payments.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Use of a charge card similarly grew year over year from 23 percent to 31 percent.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. Millennials Drive More to Faster Payments .

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Online marketplaces are connecting retailers, consumers and nonprofits amid the pandemic. And online shopping and digital fraud are increasing simultaneously, but merchants can take steps to ensure that debit-based card-not-present (CNP) transactions are kept safe. All this, Today in Data. 92%: Portion of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

As B2B eCommerce accelerates its technological innovation, and as adoption grows, it continues to look toward the world of B2C to implement optimized end-user experiences – for both the buyer and the seller. The Intersection of Payments and Trade Credit.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

COVID-19 has shifted consumers away from card-based payments experiences, while P2P has accelerated a change enabling merchants to own the payments experience itself, Debbie Guerra , executive vice president of merchant and payments intelligence solutions at ACI , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Payments Flexibility

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

In B2B payments and corporate finance, it wasn’t only bank-FinTech collaboration that made headlines in 2018. Partnerships, joint ventures, as well as merger and acquisition (M&A) activity between banks, startups, payments firms, technology conglomerates and everyone in between became a popular strategy for tackling friction.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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