PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. To purchase items at the store, consumers download an app called beePay, which connects to their credit cards or the company’s mobile payments wallet. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Amazon India has introduced a way for customers to pay their credit card bills through Amazon Pay , the eCommerce company’s payments arm. The feature allows making payments for any credit card bill via UPI or internet banking. “As Today, it offers a credit card and processes payments for customer bills.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Corporate credit card data was not exposed in the massive Capital One data breach that came to light earlier this week, according to Business Travel News reports. Former Amazon Web Services employee Paige Thomson, 33, of Seattle, has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on suspicion on carrying out the data breach.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The giant eCommerce website can now connect a stored credit card with a palm print. For now, the feature will only be available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, at 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street and its store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Avenue North.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

News comes this week, as reported by The Seattle Times, that U.S. The money is being used to pay for one-off expenses such as vacations — and also to pay down credit card debt. Chief among those debt types is credit card debt, which now stands at nearly $900 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Seattle global remittance startup Remitly is rolling out a new banking product created especially for immigrants, the company announced Monday (Feb. Every Remitly Passbook customer gets a Visa debit card. The new banking solution offers secure international money transfer benefits without fees. “We

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Seattle-based doxo already offered consumers the ability to pay their bills with a single login, from any device, using their credit card, debit card, bank account or cash. […]. Apple Pay is now available as a payment method for more than 2.5 million consumers and 45,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Capital One announced that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, as well as thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers. The Washington Post reported that the FBI has arrested a Seattle area woman, Paige A. Thompson, on a charge of computer fraud and abuse.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In the press release announcing the new feature, Walmart noted that customers can pay via cash, check, credit card or Walmart Pay. The retailer said at the time that “associates will help customers pay and go by simply swiping their credit card and providing them with a paper or electronic receipt for their purchase.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

A Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for stealing credit card numbers and selling the data online, according to The New York Times. Seleznev was convicted for running a credit card and identity theft business out of his homes in Indonesia and Russia. “This prosecution is unprecedented.”

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BankInovation

MAY 18, 2020

A new partnership between Cross River Bank and Remitly, a Seattle-based remittance company, has enabled Remitly customers to receive international disbursements in near real time, thanks to Cross River’s recently expanded push-to-card capabilities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

25) in Seattle, according to reports. . Located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, the space is four times bigger than the first cashierless location that opened to the public in January 2018. . Ceiling cameras and shelf sensors record what people put in their carts and automatically charge their credit card on file as they exit the store.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Seattle-based Thompson was charged with one count of computer fraud and abuse following her arrest on Monday (July 30). noticed her activity on a Meetup she organizes called Seattle Warez Kiddies, which is for people into “hacking, cracking.” I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest,” Ms. Online, she used the name “erratic.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Amazon To Deliver Coronavirus Test Kits In Seattle. Amazon Care was reportedly talking with local health groups about helping deliver at-home testing kits for COVID-19 in Seattle. Seattle has become one of the regions of the U.S. The bank called the claims “unnecessary and unwarranted” per a report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

Phone scammers claiming to be from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are saying they have a vaccine to cure the coronavirus (COVID-19), and are asking for credit card and Social Security numbers from unsuspecting victims to reserve it, according to a report by The Verge. Fauci, M.D.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Customers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Some curbside customers will also receive complimentary gifts like free unlimited coffee cards, holiday Nordy Bars, Sugarfina cubes and more, the company said. for a $20 fee.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Downdetector.com, the Seattle-based company that collects status reports from a variety of f sources, said there have been nearly 2,000 incidents reported with Apple Music, while more than 200 users flagged issues with iTunes and the App Store. It was unclear how many users and which countries were impacted, the news service reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The pilot will be introduced in the Seattle, Washington area, the company said, and will let customers use their mobile phones to pay in a seamless manner. Grocery chain Kroger is rolling out a new contactless pay solution at its Quality Food Centers (QFC) locations, according to a press release.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The 70-year-old Seattle, Washington resident was so close to death earlier this year from COVID-19 that a nurse held a phone to his ear while his family said their final goodbyes, The Seattle Times reported. The payments came by way of direct deposits, paper checks and debit cards. Michael Flor may have more lives than a cat.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Seattle-based Thompson was charged with one count of computer fraud and abuse following her arrest on July 30. noticed her activity on a Meetup she organizes called Seattle Warez Kiddies, which is for people into “hacking, cracking.” The breach impacts about 100 million individuals in the United States and around 6 million in Canada.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

What about gift cards? Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend. But other research says to forget millennials and focus on ourselves, as many of us enjoy buying eGift cards for me, myself and I — and, sometimes, you. Just like cash.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

The tills and checkout area of the store have been removed, and a helpdesk was created to assist consumers who want to make cash or card payments. That was the fourth Go location — and the first to open outside of Seattle, Amazon’s hometown. At the time, it was also reported the company launched an Amazon Go location in Chicago.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

The Seattle-based coffee behemoth said in a Tuesday (July 21) news release that beginning this fall, customers who use the Starbucks app to order at company-operated stores will no longer have to pay for their purchases through the app in order to earn stars in the rewards program.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 28, 2016

CFPB has issued its July 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about credit cards and complaints from consumers in Washington and the Seattle metro area. The CFPB began taking credit card complaints on July 21, 2011, the day on which the CFPB officially opened its doors for business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“With the pandemic, [typical incentives like] going out to eat, going to the movies, traveling, and even procuring and shipping merchandise — they’re just not practical,” Nat Salvione , chief commercial officer at digital rewards and loyalty provider Tango Card , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Filling The Travel Void.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

The the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for the Seattle-based tech startup. New Data: Why 75 Pct Of Consumers Want More From Card Apps Than They’re Getting. Mobile card apps have been touted as the “Swiss Army Knives of card management,” but card apps currently in the market are missing some crucial tools.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

She was also the CEO of Amazon subsidiary Quidsi, based in her native New Jersey, The Seattle Times reported. At SoFi , based in Silicon Valley, Renz will lead the FinTech startup’s credit card, brokerage and bank account businesses, one of the sources told WSJ. Renz’s exit is the latest in a slew of company departures.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The company allows customers to purchase items through their cellphones with their credit cards. After linking their cards to the service, the checkout follows an auto-pilot process of sorts. The technology has been made famous by Amazon through its checkout-free Amazon Go stores in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to The Seattle Times , a company spokesperson confirmed that employees received an email notification and apology from Co-president Blake Nordstrom last week regarding the breach. In April, retailer Hudson’s Bay disclosed that customers at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America had their payment cards compromised.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers view the Seattle-based commerce giant Amazon as a direct competitor, so this move […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Seattle-based coffee giant’s loyalty program has 19 million active members that account for 48 percent of its annual revenue. . Text messages, digital wallets and even old-fashioned physical cards are some of the other ways consumers prefer accessing loyalty rewards.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

the FBI recently issued a warning for holiday shoppers of a new scam called eSkimming , in which cyber criminals hack into legitimate online retailer websites to steal shoppers’ credit and debit card details. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

According to the eCommerce giant, the new technology will allow consumers to pay via a palm-print scan that verifies their identity and pushes their payment using whatever card they have stored. The technology will make its debut at two Amazon Go locations in the company’s hometown of Seattle, according to published reports.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For now there is just one store and it’s in Seattle and only open to Amazon employees, Read More. Amazon released a video today promoting its Amazon Go stores and their “Just walk out” technology. Users check in with their apps at the door and then fill their shopping bags and leave.

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