PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Alternative payment options stand to fuel acceptance as they alleviate customers’ fears surrounding credit cards and fraud, and domestic online marketplaces are beginning to take root. But Amazon won’t get to enjoy its status as the only major online marketplace in the region for long.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The shift to digital commerce is more urgent than ever — and so are some of the potential pitfalls as fraudsters recalibrate their attacks and eye card-not-present transactions as a new way to make off with ill-gotten gains. And, she added, for merchants that already had an online presence, there’s been a marked volume swing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Visa and its India FinTech partner, Open , are rolling out their joint credit card product for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). 11) that Open, which operates a small business banking and financial services platform, announced the Founder’s Card, the result of its existing partnership with Visa.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

In Latin America, such a company exists in the form of MercadoLibre , a triple-threat regional financial powerhouse based in Argentina. It is one of the region’s fastest-growing companies, having just turned in a stellar first quarter in a region that has more complexities than any of its northern neighbors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Get a toehold in a consumer’s account with a card and whammo, here comes EMV. Fraudulent activity is 81 percent more likely to occur online than at the physical point of sale. By now, it’s widely known that chip-enabled cards have been pushing fraud to digital conduits. Pity the poor fraudster. We pity no fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Its client roster includes MGM Resorts, Caesars Resorts, and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino; the Oregon and Pennsylvania state lotteries; Churchill Downs; Golden Nugget online; and DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, and Rush Street sports, among others. A value card gives VIP guests immediate access to winnings. There are more than 2.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And in an interview with PYMNTS, Jacob Shoihet , co-founder and CEO of the online financing platform Marco Financial , said the problem is particularly acute for exporters. “In But, as Shoihet said, these firms account for roughly 50 percent of trade volume in the LATAM region. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Indian online payments platform Cashfree has landed millions in new funding to help fuel its growth, while InComm Payments has acquired Brazilian gift card processor Todo Cartões. InComm Acquires Brazilian Gift Card Processor Todo Cartões.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

But reaching a broader range of consumers, accommodating their payment preferences, and satisfying regulatory and tax issues in unfamiliar territory introduces a host of new operational challenges for these companies. With so many retail stores closing, they need to be able to provide a way to sell D2C wherever those consumers are online.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers around the globe have moved their purchasing online during the pandemic, and those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are no exception. The region’s financial institutions (FIs) and merchants have needed to work swiftly to support unprecedented levels of digital payment and shopping growth.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

Australia-based commercial card firm Emerchants Payment Solutions is reportedly looking to make a strategic acquisition in the U.S. million to purchase Store Financial , a payments company operating in the B2B payments and payment card space. Reports on Thursday (April 28) said Emerchants is seeking to raise $36.7

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Walmart Makes It Easy to Shop Online While in Store. Consumers looking for a specific product they can’t find in-store can now ask an associate to help them find the item online via an in-store device. In the press release announcing the new feature, Walmart noted that customers can pay via cash, check, credit card or Walmart Pay.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Dimon’s comments come at a time of aggressive growth and gains by numerous digitally native startups that have modernized and streamlined online banking and payments for the masses. unveiled its next generation of operating software for ATMs, designed to integrate the now decades-old cash-dispensing machines into the digital age.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Amazon has had and still has its impact, of course, having bought Whole Foods and helping to send companies such as Kroger and Walmart into the meal kit market and to their own online delivery models, scrambling to get clicks and online sales. Shipt is joining Peapod and Instacart. Refreshing the Delivery Model – Literally.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Revolut has launched an acquiring solution for its Revolut Business starter pack, which will allow businesses in 13 European countries to accept credit card payments online. and EEA consumer cards and a 2.8 percent fee for all other cards. The product will feature a 1.3 percent fee for U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The bank will be able to serve retail customers, lend money and take deposits, along with other online banking functions. Recently, it announced a new ‘GrabPay’ card, a numberless card that can be used to pay for services at nearly 53 million merchants worldwide.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Recent data indicated that 82 percent of SMBs shutter in their first year because of poor cash management operations. As SMBs seek opportunities to expand their operations, and reach new customers and markets, they will need the right spend and workforce tools to ensure funds are spent appropriately. Inside The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Visa President Ryan McInerney said that beyond the core card business there remains the opportunity to “capture new flows of money using our expanding network of networks.” Drilling down a bit further into tap to pay metrics, the company has 145 million tap to pay cards in the U.S., will issue tap to pay cards. B2B Potential.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Regional financial institutes Hong Leong Bank and Maybank are also looking into the possibility of applying for a license, according to the sources. The central bank in Malaysia said last month that it was considering releasing as many as five conventional or Islamic online banking licenses. million customers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The integration will help to grow Esker’s order-to-cash (O2C) solution by allowing for secure online payment capabilities around the world. “As By enriching our O2C solution with online payment, we increase businesses’ operating efficiencies and help them get paid faster, particularly in the collections process.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Providers serving a wide array of businesses have access to more card or customer data than individual merchants, meaning they may be more able to flag individuals showing signs of fraudulent or unusual behavior. . Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

That means card portfolios can experience changing returns for financial institutions (FIs). For example, having tools that monitor cardholder behavior and automatically trigger actions that drive faster card activation helps get revenue through the door sooner. In dealing with multiple vendors, FIs often operate less efficiently.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. Growing interest in open banking typically coincides with the expanding use of online financial platforms and tools.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

They’ve seen it since they started working on the ground in Africa in 2006 to develop an online booking system for a small Kenyan airline looking to make themselves more appealing to foreign customers. They can route in a single step part of the payment to the delivery person, part of it to Uber Eats, and part of it to any other operator.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In addition to the expanded services for SMBs, Payoneer also announced a partnership with commercial card startup Brex to facilitate international business payments to contractors. These new capabilities and partnerships fuel our mission to empower businesses to grow,” said Payoneer VP, Regional Head of Americas Iain McNicoll.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

The company has added Alexa to its Dash Wand product, making it smarter and more capable than ever – and strategically positioning itself to own the emerging online grocery market. “If As consumers continue to get more comfortable ordering food online, Amazon is positioning itself at the bleeding edge of that market shift.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Unfortunately, he said, countless other companies struggle to make that transition, and face challenges in expanding reach and boosting conversion rates online. The payments capabilities of merchants large and small, Collison told Webster, may not be ready, technologically speaking, for the sudden surge in online demand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

That includes paying for everything from clothes to restaurant deliveries through online and card-not-present transactions. But drill down a bit, and cash usage has varied from country to country and region to region, depending on what phase of the pandemic (and lockdown) these countries are in. “On

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

Fraudsters are leveling up attacks to take advantage of the rise of online shopping and so businesses must be extra vigilant. Consumers are facing stress in many areas of their lives due to the pandemic and have little appetite for the added strain of confronting friction-filled experiences online.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Rules like the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been operating for several years in the European Union, for example, but there are different considerations when it comes to online transactions and privacy during a time when most consumers and businesses are operating indoors.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS found in a study published earlier this month, 42 percent of consumers are engaging in even the most routine activities online, and as much as $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving to digital channels. It’s no longer just a matter of, ‘can I take a credit card online?’”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Called sMALL Surprises , the curated box of goods from several of PREIT’s mall properties is a nod to subscription-based boxes, as well as one of the first examples of a REIT acting as an online vendor. Twenty-eight percent of PREIT’s portfolio consists of local and regional tenants.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The Moka app enables merchants to accept debit and credit cards as well as mobile payments like Alipay. Also in 2017, Gojek acquired two FinTech firms in Indonesia — Kartuku, the country’s largest offline payments-processing company; and Midtrans, a top online-payment gateway. million active monthly users in the rest of the region.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well.

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