PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Currently, about 30 percent of all online sales in Southeast Asia in 2016 occurred through social networks, like Facebook, Instagram and Line (Naver Corp.’s Additionally, 80 percent of shoppers in Southeast Asia used social media to research items and contact sellers. says market research firm GlobalWebIndex.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

percent plan to buy Halloween greeting cards ($390 million of total spending). Pinterest is the fastest-growing costume influencer on social media at 17 percent, but the social media site has seen 133 percent growth since 2012. billion in spending, and 35.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In 2016, customers took to social media to complain about a similar thing. You have allowed nearly £1k of fraudulent transactions on my card. Some customers complained that they’d been charged for orders they didn’t make, including one case in particular worth almost £1,000.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

While there are plenty of tools that make it easier to get money deposited into a bank or debit card account, there aren’t many that make it easier to ask your friends or co-workers to cough up the cash when you pick up the tab after a night out. billion in 2016, with an estimated value at $43.7 percent to 25.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

22) that it has rolled out two enhanced consumer authentication solutions, step-up authentication and identity verification, to mitigate card fraud within call centers. billion last year, while the mean consumer cost of fraud more than doubled from 2016 to 2017 to $102 per incident. billion in 2017, tripling over 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The move pushes Visa ever further away from cards and toward its goal of becoming, as management has often described it, a “network of networks.”. Credit Card Spend: Bank results show continued spending on credit cards. JPMorgan’s latest quarter showed credit card transactions were up 10 percent in the quarter.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

In the social media reply to a user who asked why the payment method was taken away, the retailer said, “JCPenney made the decision to remove Apple Pay for our stores, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The retailer’s support account on Twitter noted the change during the weekend, 9 to 5 Mac reported.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

The scam started in 2016 with an attack in Ukraine. In April, Cisco Systems’ Talos security unit warned that dozens of cybercriminal groups have found a home on Facebook, using the platform’s online marketplace to sell illegal services such as stolen credit card information and spamming tools. Moldova and Ukraine.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

billion in Q4 2016, the first full quarter of Same Day ACH Credit availability. The peer-to-peer mobile payment service offers a social media element aimed at making the exchange of money more fun for both sides of the transaction. The social side of Venmo makes it less awkward,” said Vaughan.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does. We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Visa’s newest APIs will help those within the Visa ecosystem to create digital cards on demand and add digital services. Is Apple Card Already Changing Payments? Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, is reportedly settling on Synchrony Financial to issue the Venmo credit card. Welcome to the PYMNTS Weekender. We hope you enjoy.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nowadays, communication is dominated by e-mail, texts and social media posts in volumes that dwarf those of the past using paper. Firstly, cards have no role to play. In part two, I explain a precedent for this atomization and its implications, and how the payments industry needs to prepare. Precedent and Implications.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 19, 2016

He cited a recent survey that found content marketing ranks as companies' most significant digital marketing trend for 2016. He said that there are even greater differences in lead generation for checking accounts and credit cards. So if Accenture, and Google, think social media can promote B2B client acquisition, should your bank?

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2018

With the new functionality, users can register a credit or debit card and make payments within the social media platform after setting up a security PIN, TechCrunch reported. In 2016, Instagram rolled out shoppable tags on photos from as many as 20 retail brands.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Unsurprisingly, fast food patrons immediately began warring on social media about whether or not the results could be trusted. People on social media will engage in online debate for almost any reason — sometimes no reason at all. Chick-fil-A’s average sales per restaurant in 2016 were $4.4

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MAY 2, 2017

Facebook (FB) shares have hit record highs amid investor optimism on the social media giant’s upcoming Q1 earnings report. Research from Proofpoint found a 45 percent spike in BEC attacks in the last quarter of 2016 compared to Q3. billion in attempted wire fraud between October 2013 and May 2016.

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William Mills

MAY 10, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. One use case is to use a bot, via text messaging, to help customers when they have potential credit card fraud. Card-linked offers generated a lot of excitement a few years ago. Link your card to website or app, select the offer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

On top of that greater per capita amount, 179 million Americans are joining the Halloween party game this year, up from 171 million in 2016. billion will be spent on decorations and $410 million on greeting cards. Average spend among consumer will grow to $86.13, up from last year’s $82.93. percent last year and a peak of 32.1

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 13, 2020

Debt collection (25%): The largest number of debt collection complaints concerned “attempts to collect debt not owed” for miscellaneous products and services such as phone bills, health club memberships, and home utility services, followed by credit card debt. The majority of complaints involved “trouble during payment process.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

After meals are finished, guests can pay their checks at the table via an integrated card scanner or a smartphone app or mobile wallet. McCann pointed out that social media allows guests to share their experiences with the new tech in real time, turning them into instant testimonials for tech and restaurants that use it.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. You can look at life events such as marriage, credit card, new job, etc. Social media is a special challenge since social media was not created with compliance in mind. We are launching a pilot for the 2016-17 Australian grains harvest.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

Varonis even found one company with more than 2 million files with sensitive information (credit card, Social Security and account numbers) accessible to anyone on the company network. The 2016 Payment Survey found that U.S. That includes search engines, supplier websites and social media, researchers found.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. 01:20 pm William Mills, CEO of William Mills Agency, and Stephen Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc, discuss highlights from FinovateSpring 2016 Day 1. Going to speak about technology can be better used in the card world. Maria Gurina (Bus.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The social media platform announced that its chatbot service is now commerce-enabled. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 event on Monday (Sept. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 event on Monday (Sept. Facebook Messenger is officially accepting payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Coffee shop Starbucks’ sales revenue in 2016 was $21 billion, Dunkin’ Donuts saw $10.8 Gift Card Day.”. The magic of the National Coffee Day holiday works similarly to the statistically demonstrable magic of a gift card. Gift cards and “freebies” get customers into the store and prompt them to spend more.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We This year, we look at revenues.” Launched back in 2014, […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We learned a lot about 2016, but first and foremost, we learned that the future is a much weirder, more random and harder to predict place than previously thought. Chase Pay had been announced before 2016 but spent this year getting really serious about covering some big digital ground. Walmart kicked Walmart Pay out the door.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

The End of Excessive Card Surcharges. A new law is going into effect that will prohibit agents from charging customers fees for using their credit or debit card. But that’s not such good news for the agents, and some may opt to introduce booking fees or other incentives to discourage customers from using cards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Additional queues formed at concession stands as attendees reached for their credit cards and IDs to buy beer or wine. Following CLEAR’s successful launch, the technology has been introduced at concession stands throughout the stadium, where users’ biometric data can be linked to payment cards to enable quick purchases.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

. —68 percent of small business owners across age groups are optimistic about the economy , but millennial entrepreneurs are especially positive, with 81 percent noting they are optimistic about future economic conditions, an increase from 2016 levels, researchers noted. million millennials now make up more than a quarter of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Between 2012 and 2016 alone, in fact, the number of 18- to 24-year-old frequent moviegoers fell from 8.7 Once a show has been selected, MoviePass credits the user’s linked Movie Pass debit card with the full cost of the ticket. The debit card is then swiped at the theater’s POS to obtain the tickets. million to 7.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Now they can earn points no matter how they pay, even if they opt to use a credit card or cash. The company is also dedicated to live and digital interface with its customers, with a robust social media presence and a highly engaged following that exploded around spring 2016.

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Long Lasting Ideas

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For the first time, online local advertising is expected to overtake all local analog media. In fact, digital is expected to eat up more than half of all local ad dollars in 2016, according to Borrell Associates. Ask customers to tell their favorite story about your bank, or a bank employee on social media.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

billion digital records in the United States were compromised during the first half of 2018 – 291 records every second – with only six social media breaches accounting for more than half of all at-risk data. Experiencing such gains comes with risks, however, as digital IDs have presented new and underexplored avenues for fraud.

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