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Digital Payments are Here to Stay

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Ruston Miles, founder and advisor of Bluefin Payment Systems takes a long look at how the coronavirus pandemic affected the payments industry and how that changes the future. This will be the first article in ATM Marketplace's series, COVID-19: A look back at a year of change.

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Crate And Barrel: Personalizing The Shopping Experience For A Digital-First Buyer

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Consumers were shopping, transacting and interacting with merchants via online or mobile channels well before the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset, but the global health crisis has dramatically accelerated this trend. Others are altering how they shop and pay at brick-and-mortar locations now that retailers around the globe are reopening.

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For SMBs, The Pressure’s On To Embrace Payroll Flexibility

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In a pre-pandemic world, the workforce was in dramatic flux. From the rise of the gig economy and lower barriers to becoming an independent contractor or a solo-preneur, to the accelerated development of real-time payments capabilities all had major implications for payroll. Playing The Support Role.

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Alibaba On Facilitating Cross-Border Trust To Boost International Commerce

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The pandemic has triggered a massive surge in eCommerce businesses looking to expand internationally. Many had never transferred funds across borders and lacked the payments infrastructure necessary to send or receive cross-border payments at scale, magnifying the friction points associated with cross-border payments processes.

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PSCU CEO: Debit Still Wins With The Resilient Consumer

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In a year marked by unpredictable events, high unemployment, business closures and, of course, a global pandemic, the U.S. consumer is still standing — but how they pay has changed with the times, both out of necessity and out of convenience. Debit Wins Out. I think debit ultimately wins out,” Fagan continued.

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Keeping Grocery?s ?Digital Shifters? Loyal Post Pandemic

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The new coronavirus had an immediate effect on the grocery industry, with many grocers putting safety measures in place to ensure both their employees and customers could interact safely in stores. This includes changes to how customers find items, how they fill their orders and how they pay. There were 62.5

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Today In Payments: Stripe To Offer Banking As A Service To Merchants; Affirm Expands Canadian Presence With PayBright Buy

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4), a new service that will offer debit cards, bank accounts and other financial services to online merchants and vendors using Stripe’s payment processing platform. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments startup Affirm announced its acquisition of Canada’s installment payments firm PayBright. trillion, up more than one-third.

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