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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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JUNE 28, 2019

credit card business, mobile-first company Jaja will pay an initial cash consideration of $671 million at current rates. The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. s Automobile Association and a Bank of Ireland branded card. (It To acquire the Bank of Ireland’s U.K.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. In comparison to a market like China’s, it’s glacial. trillion — compared to the $112 billion market in the U.S., It hasn’t been easy. percent to be exact).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They look for adjacent innovations with the potential for broader application, adopting features from one market to create a new product or improve an existing one. You can get started by mapping the customer journey, uncovering pain points and opportunities across their interactions with your brand. 2018, November 01).

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APRIL 21, 2019

Venmo, the digital payments company, is reportedly considering launching credit cards as a way to profit from its large customer base. Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, is reportedly settling on Synchrony Financial to issue the Venmo credit card. Venmo isn’t the only one that is eyeing the credit card market.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Merchants may be able to deliver the best experiences to their customers through their own apps, but not all customers want to take up hundreds of megabytes on their phones — unless they really love the brand. But don’t be fooled: The experience doesn’t feel like contextual marketing. “If Gift Card Popularity.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

According to Market Watch , a new report by Piper Jaffray found that teens would rather have those items than cash or gift cards. percent of teen’s wish lists, with the top four consumer brands being the iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBooks and Airpods. The next closest brand is Gucci , which only accounted for 0.6

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

consumers a low-cost, digital-only bank that will directly compete with Goldman Sachs ‘s Marcus brand. Barry Rodrigues, CEO of cards and payments at Barclaycard International, told Financial Times that the new offering would “leverage Barclays’ U.K. We expect to have that in the market next year.”.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Many enjoyed huge first-day price pops, heating up the IPO market even more — and 2021 seems poised to only continue the fireworks. Popular stock-trading app Robinhood Markets reportedly recently hired Goldman Sachs to lead a possible 2021 IPO that would value the company at more than $20 billion. Then shares soared 85.8 on March 13.

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JULY 27, 2020

Time to market is key, and that’s where sticky.io Helping brands launch their DTC and subscription businesses with the flexibility to sell how their customers want to buy – and fast – is the future of digital commerce.”. Startup brands are taking advantage, and established players are catching up. is investing.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

According to the latest Q3 2018 TransUnion’s Industry Insights Report the back half of 2018 has been a good year for sub-prime borrowers looking for access to credit. In 2016, the market experienced a pullback as lenders slowed or stalled sub-prime originations,” Komos said. Sub-prime issuing also ticked up 3.6

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JUNE 6, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. The global mPOS industry was valued at $26 billion as of 2018, and is projected to grow 35.4 percent between 2018 and 2025. JPMorgan Chase will roll out new Visa-branded contactless EMV cards this year.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

With Burberry launching a social experience at its brick-and-mortar Shenzhen store and social platforms like Facebook pushing their commerce capabilities, new startups are popping up and established brands are catching up to capture this newest area of the digital shift. Brands and Mastercard. 4) with Tuli. On Tuesday (Aug. ”

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JANUARY 20, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a suit against Georgia fuel card firm FLEETCOR , alleging that it bilked customers out of millions of dollars in hidden fees, a charge the company denies, according to reports on Monday (Jan. The publicly traded company was founded in 2010, and reported 2018 annual revenues of $2.4

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Robinhood , the investment app that upended its market by elimination of commissions on stock trades is bringing its brand of disruption to the United Kingdom. In the United States, by 2016, it grew to 1 million subscribers and 6 million by October 2018. As of December of 2019, Robinhood is now at 10 million subscribers.

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MAY 3, 2020

Instead, RBS said Friday (May 1) that it would “wind down Bó as a customer-facing brand” in only a half-year since the neo bank was rolled out to the public. RBS is looking to focus resources on Mettle, the second of its two digital-only challenger brands.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Marqeta, which is California-based and also works with payment cards for brands, is expected to close the round in a few weeks, although the numbers could potentially change. The Series E round is $3.8908 a share and the valuation is a large leap from 2018’s number, which was $545 million. billion, according to reports.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

Late last month the company announced it was expanding its partnership with Visa to include five new regions in 24 markets including Canada, Japan, Singapore and the U.S. bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets. banking licence. But despite its growth, the company has not turned a profit.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Wall Street being Wall Street was focused, at least in part, on trading and asset management revenues, which rebounded strongly in the fourth quarter, up double-digit percentages in most cases amid record high stock markets. credit and debit cards. In the U.S., billion cross U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission] SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions. based Shift4 Payments is the latest ISO to go public, including Atlanta’s EVO Payments , which went public in May 2018. Shift4 Payments, which has offices in Europe and the United States, first launched as United Bank Card Inc.,

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APRIL 17, 2019

Uber also introduced Venmo as a payment option in 2018, after noticing that six million payments in the popular app were marked “Uber” in the previous year. Uber also accepts credit and debit cards, as well as PayPal. Uber Eats will roll out Apple Pay to almost 20 markets in the upcoming weeks. Those markets include the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. 31, 2018, with a year-end goal of 300 million.) P2P Numbers. Zelle Bank Gains.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Providers serving a wide array of businesses have access to more card or customer data than individual merchants, meaning they may be more able to flag individuals showing signs of fraudulent or unusual behavior. . Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Though it’s been more than a year since each submitted applications to process payments in the $124 trillion market, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) hasn’t acknowledged and accepted the applications. The failure to formally accept applications from two of the biggest credit card brands in the world seems to be proof of that.

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JUNE 11, 2018

In their ongoing mutual mission to make coffee purchases more rewarding, Starbucks and Chase are rolling out the Starbucks Rewards Visa Prepaid Card. There are no monthly or reload fees associated with the card. Stars can be earned at any place Visa cards are accepted. “We

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Venmo , the digital money transfer service owned by PayPal , suffered payments fraud earlier in 2018 that played a role in the company posting losses that were higher than forecasted for the first quarter of this year. We cannot let that happen.”

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

In recent years, cybercriminals implanted malicious skimming code directly on e-commerce shops and online content management and payment platforms as a way of stealing payment card data at scale. Their goal is to compromise the merchant’s payments processing account and steal all of the payment card data processed by the merchant.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. The four-room house, which is a mere 238 square feet, was built for the brand by Modern Tiny Living.

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MAY 13, 2019

Small and micro merchants that would otherwise have been priced out of the market by traditional, fixed POS systems have seen success with mPOS solutions. Trust issues have only become more pressing as the global mPOS market grows, reaching a value of $170 million, according to a Global Mobile POS Market 2019 report.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

He will continue reporting to Krish Iyer, President & CEO Walmart India, and oversee operations, merchandising, people, marketing, real estate, kirana development program, digital, eCommerce and strategy,” a company spokesperson said. This is Aggarwal’s second promotion in less than two years at Walmart India.

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APRIL 10, 2020

. “With more Americans practicing social distancing and staying home with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to increase access to healthy meals and nutrition advice through our telehealth platform and partnership with Purple Carrot ,” said Lindsey Sacks, chief marketing officer of Fruit Street.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

By 2016, Chime was in the market with the full suite of features that digital banks offer today. As a pure-play digital bank, Chime offers as its primary product an entirely mobile/digital banking application that gives customers access to a network-branded debit card and a savings account. ”

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JANUARY 22, 2019

As perks for consumers go, cash-back offerings remain the leader of the pack when consumers are choosing credit cards. 13 percent of adults have an airline or hotel credit card, and 12 percent have a general travel rewards credit card, according to surveys by CreditCards.com and YouGov Plc. In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

One of the biggest trends in fintech today is the rise of digital banking products like mobile checking accounts and new debit cards. From Square to Paypal, a host of fintechs are creating products that let consumers spend money directly out of digital accounts using a physical card. turning Digital p2p payments into debit cards.

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MAY 28, 2019

The company integrated GO-PAY into the GO-JEK app, which lets customers store money on their mobile phones, much like a digital debit card. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018.

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