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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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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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Afterpay Adopts Google Pay, Apple Pay

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Similar to Afterpay online, shoppers can pay for their in-store purchases in four installment payments. “As we enter the second half of the year and retail re-emerges across the world, it’s critical we help our partners drive business growth, both online and offline,” said Nick Molnar , Afterpay Co-Founder and U.S.

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Bank Innovation Relaunches

Bank Innovation

Today, Bank Innovation releases its most significant redesign and relaunch since the site initially dropped online in 2009. We hope you love the new Bank Innovation. When we started Bank Innovation, while the crosswinds of the credit crisis were still swirling, we were the lone voice for innovation at banks.

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Bank Innovation Kicks Off Relaunch Beta

Bank Innovation

We have undertaken our most significant redesign and relaunch since Bank Innovation initially dropped online in 2009. This beta officially kicks off today and marks a new chapter in the life of Bank Innovation. We hope you love it.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. In 2009, Uber made payments disappear. The Invisible Innovators .

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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The world of 2009 was starkly different, a far less optimistic place. Though the Great Recession was technically “over” by the middle of 2009, few people living in the real economy felt that fact in their daily lives. When people asked “what’s next?” in the year 1999, they were generally pretty excited to hear the answer.