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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

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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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The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate

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Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. Financial institutions (FIs) face the issue of whether to outsource their credit card programs or do it themselves – a decision that will maintain its importance in the coming new decade.

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TSYS On How Payments Power Rewards, And Rewards Power Loyalty

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Loyalty has come a long way in the payments realm, from the days when strict terms of rewards programs were more frustrating than enticing for consumers. Services offered include price protection and free food delivery, once users reach certain spending thresholds. Venmo, too, has been rumored to be jumping on the loyalty bandwagon.

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Retail’s 2020 Digital-First Payments Roadmap

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Consumers have always influenced how payment methods evolve – stretching back centuries to the barter system, and extending, now, into the digital age. And as payments are done in bits and bytes, across all manner of use cases, consumers prize convenience and personalization. In the webinar scheduled for Jan.

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France’s Joko FinTech Gets €1.6M To Help Consumers Earn Credit Card Rewards

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million from investors including Partech, Axeleo Capital, Lafayette Plug and Play and others to further develop its loyalty program integrated into credit or debit cards. Through Joko’s mobile app, credit cards become loyalty cards, so there is no need to scan or say anything. French startup Joko announced that it has raised €1.6

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Easing Recurring Collections For Tech-Averse SMBs

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While user experience is key, these tools must also be agile enough to rise to small- to medium-sized businesses’ (SMBs’) digital-native foundations. But when platforms can promote automation without adding complexity to the user experience, these technologies will be able to find traction within SMBs everywhere.

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Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

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Among the more popular players in the P2P space is Venmo, a mobile payment platform owned by PayPal. The peer-to-peer mobile payment service offers a social media element aimed at making the exchange of money more fun for both sides of the transaction. Users can also select an emoticon to indicate the purpose of the request.