PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While contactless payment methods in the form of mobile wallets and contactless cards are both becoming more common features, our consumer-survey data strongly indicates while that’s better than making consumers dip their cards, it’s not quite the gold standard when it comes to giving consumers hands-off options for payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

In the move toward digital payments in cash-centric economies, building trust in bank accounts and payments done in bits and bytes is critical. Call it a way of bridging the divide between digital transactions and those rendered in bills and coins. That footprint is important,” Gelebart noted. Cash In, Cash Out .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The good news for customers — and the challenge for financial services players, both established and emerging as the decade comes to a close — is that when it comes to payments, this is the era of customer choice. Bitcoin, Libra, instant payments, Open Banking — these were the big subjects on repeat last week, Dobbie told Webster.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The shift away from legacy payments processes was well underway before the pandemic, but COVID-19 is creating fresh urgency to move to cloud-based digitized systems, David Disque , president at CSI (Corporate Spending Innovations) told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Disque said office shutdowns have “created a lot of havoc. …

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Cash was long king in Nigeria despite more than a decade of efforts to bring cashless options to consumers, Jay Alabraba , co-founder of Nigerian payments platform Paga , told Karen Webster. We saw significant upsurge in the number of signups — about five times growth in the first two months of Q2 versus Q1 for new registrations,” he said. “We

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 3, 2023

Banking Services Are Underutilized When a business opens or moves banks, they often agree to a basic account and usually don’t have a follow-up conversation with their banker about what products and services they should be using. Most of these non or small-sized franchise places pay on cash on delivery or last delivery net terms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

To that end, as Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity told PYMNTS, the stage is becoming increasingly set for currency — the literal cold, hard stuff of bills and coins — to be rendered in bits and bytes. We became a professional fundraiser for many charities across the U.S.,” What we have seen increased significantly is the bitcoin purchases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

Here’s a 2019 prediction that we guarantee will come true: There will be no human being or business adamantly hoping to be paid slower in 2019 than they were in 2018. We also guarantee that this prediction will hold, regardless of who one is talking about or the use case to which it pertains. Progress Points.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

In just three years, one word, one idea, has rewritten the payments rulebook: “instant.” Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the move to instant is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with payments, opening up new worlds of risk and reward. Making Money Fast. Want to make a CFO smile?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have deep dives on faster worker pay as well as cloud banking and news on WhatsApp’s payment functionality in Brazil. Top News . Mastercard Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

By bringing modern digital technology and payments expertise to existing businesses, the startup has been able to double its offerings – and then double them again – at a time when the world was contending with the coronavirus. So we launched an entertainment platform,” he said. Basically, we did like 150 live music sessions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Once the accounts are linked, Discover customers can pay for purchases at millions of online stores using PayPal, and instantly redeem any amount of accumulated rewards. . “We Now they can spend the rewards they earned with PayPal and have more choices when they pay.”. 25) press release. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

These longstanding frustrations have recently become more concerning for both parties, however, as the COVID-19 pandemic has made paycheck speed more essential for businesses’ cash flow reconciliation and employees’ bill-paying needs. Real-time payments can improve the efficiency of firms struggling with their cash flows, he added.

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CB Insights

APRIL 28, 2023

Shopify, an e-commerce infrastructure leader, has long used business partnerships to help merchants with handling payments. The company is continuing this strategy with its new partnership with invoice payments platform Melio to offer a direct bill payments service — which includes an option to pay directly through a bank account.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Technology, of course, has helped make strides in how we detect and treat any number of maladies. You can use your watch to monitor how many steps you take, use your phone to set up (literal) facetime with a physician, and pay bills with a tap of a virtual wallet. Much has changed in healthcare over the last decade.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Payments choice is emerging as more than just added eCommerce utility. Merchants expanding payment options are finding this an important differentiator, a major value-added benefit, seemingly tailor-made for the uncertain economic times we’re suddenly living through. Decade of Debit. Afterpay’s U.S. How Much Choice is Too Much?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

B2B ’s pain points when it comes to payments are well known — where paper checks dominate, where even the fax machine makes an appearance. Along the way, they said, the B2B payments landscape itself will be transformed, chiefly through digitalization and verticalization. Points Of Pressure.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The tipping point toward real-time payments’ ubiquity might be closer than many observers think, Mark Ranta , payments practice lead at FinTech Alacriti , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. Instant Paychecks Should Get Consumers Interested.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In today’s payments news, Mastercard is rolling out Mastercard Bill Pay Exchange with the help of several new partners. The firm has delivered a $5 billion financing rescue that The We Company — parent of New York-based WeWork — is considering alongside one from JPMorgan Chase. Apple Pay went live on Oct.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

However, efforts are picking up to move more of those payments from checks to digital methods. Just a few weeks ago, the company launched its new service called Bento Pay. Even so, some 80 percent of small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) still use paper checks for payments. Say that the company’s bill is $100 monthly.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Inefficient, but stubbornly entrenched, paper and cash dominate bill payments. With 44 percent of the 15 billion bills in the U.S. paid using those archaic payment choices, the move to digital payments is a shared effort amid companies, processors, billers and, of course, consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) automation technology has hit the ground running, with solutions designed to accelerate invoice processing, optimize payment strategies and promote digital adoption. That’s not to say that small- to medium-sized business (SMB) invoice payment challenges are any easier to overcome. The result?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Four years ago, Amazon introduced its Amazon Pay digital wallet to increase online payments. Today, it offers a credit card and processes payments for customer bills. It also helped that high-value currency notes were banned that year and fueled digital payments as Walmart Inc.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Point-of-sale (POS) lender Affirm is putting its initial public offering (IPO) on hold until January or later. An apparently veto-proof vote by the Senate sends the defense bill to the president for signature – and within it, legislation that would strengthen anti-money laundering efforts. regional banks. Senate Overhauls AML Laws.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Digitizing documents is key to optimizing workflows, but when it comes to the procure-to-pay space, not all digital invoices and purchase orders are created equal. What It Means to Be Digital. The result is a lot of paper and PDF documents, which creates a slew of challenges for the procure-to-pay workflow.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Corporate treasurers show increasing interest in real time and faster payment solutions, the latest research suggests. However, it’s not necessarily the ability to pay suppliers in real-time that has companies enticed. Treasurers See Faster Payments Benefits. Chase Accelerates SMB Bank Deposits. Community Banks Go Real Time.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

From coordinating a team of newly remote workers to assessing new business models, the coronavirus pandemic is drastically disrupting the way organizations run and it is forcing a complete rethink of almost every aspect of operations — payments included. While it’s still early days, Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Carrier billing has managed to establish a strong foothold worldwide — as it has been a popular way to buy digital content in Asia, Europe in the Middle East. But carrier billing is evolving beyond its traditional one-off purchases as telecommunications firms (telcos) are thinking about how to leverage more than their billing capabilities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Fleet payments, WEX’s flagship focus, grew with a 7 percent increase in total fuel transactions processed during the quarter compared to Q3 2017, with a 22 percent increase in fuel prices accelerating value for the company. The place that Noventis plays in, which is consumer online bill pay, is itself $1.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Supply chain financing is a practice that has received a bit of backlash in recent weeks, with critics accusing some large corporates of forcing discounts on small suppliers to speed up payment. “Law firms are looking for consistency in payments to make sure they don’t have to weather long payment terms,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

A look at recent activity around the card shows a good deal of innovation and a fair amount of concern over rejection rates for both the card and its mobile wallet cousin, Apple Pay. 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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That’s something that shouldn’t be surprising, since we don’t do a great job of teaching young people about money, Step CEO CJ MacDonald told Karen Webster. I mean, the average American doesn't have $400 in emergency savings and pays $350 a year in banking fees. We don't take that lightly. 2021 And Beyond.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

That’s especially true when it comes to getting paid for their work, a process that can drag between getting invoices out and getting payments in. Accepting digital payments and integrating them into the billing flow requires SMBs to do the heavy lifting of obtaining a merchant account. Solving SMB payment problems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

In this week's news, we saw Quevos secure funding, new data on loyalty and rewards programs, and research on how nonprofits are using digital payments. Robinhood is mulling selling shares directly to users if it chooses to have an initial public offering (IPO). Open Banking Meets Instant Payments at the Online Checkout.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

There are few participants in the American healthcare system that offer rave reviews of its payment process. payers (insurance companies) and members (patients) all offer different perspectives on what’s really wrong – but all agree that if healthcare payments was a patient, it would be flatlining.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Looking ahead to a new decade in payments — and the opportunity to monetize transactions — over the horizon lies the vertical. Vertical payment solutions are nothing new. And the end of the decade is a good place to take stock of where we thought we would be, where we are and where we most decidedly are not.

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