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Today In Payments: Wirecard Forces German Accounting Regs Reboot; Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards

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In today’s top news, Germany’s deputy finance minister wants to restructure accounting firm regulations, and consumers are turning away from travel rewards cards. Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards. Plus, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC) is looking to modernize bank reporting.

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Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations

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At the time of the black swans in 2001 and 2008, it was hard to tell anything positive was coming out of them. We even created the ability to use chip cards in a USB-attached chip reader to form-fill and send EMV-like payment information to merchants across the internet. Black Swans Are the Sandbox of New Innovations.

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How Gift Certificates Evolved From Paper To Wearables

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A few decades later, Neiman Marcus started distributing gift cards, but the retailer took a page from the 1930s department store playbook: It kept the cards out of sight and only sold them as novelty items. Compared to traditional paper gift certificates, gift cards were a plastic card with a magnetic stripe.

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Turkey’s PayCore Snags New Majority Investor Amid Digital Payments Boom

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Launched in 2001, PayCore notes that more than a million POS terminals in Turkey operate with software developed and provided by the company. In addition, PayCore’s software helps facilitate 60 percent of all credit card transactions in Turkey, the company said. , which has a footprint that extends to more than 12 countries.

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PayPal’s Xoom Makes Remittance Deal With Euronet’s Ria

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Xoom launched in 2001 and was purchased by PayPal in 2015 for $890 million in an all-cash deal. With the completion of the deal, PayPal said it and Synchrony have extended their co-branded consumer credit card program agreement, making Synchrony the exclusive issuer of PayPal’s consumer financing program online in the U.S.

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Billtrust Taps Green Dot For New CFO

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Billtrust was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. In October , Billtrust announced that it was expanding its presence in Chicago as it experiences rapid growth, including more than $30 billion in ACH and card payments processed. .

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Paysafe Hires Mastercard Exec As Director

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Before that, he was president of the Americas Region and served as president of Mastercard Canada from 2001 to 2004. He was also an executive vice president of Cards and Collections at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and spent 18 years with Toronto Dominion Bank.