Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In addition to fireside chats, startup demos, and general sessions, Bank Innovation’s 2018 conference has added a pre-conference workshop on how to build an innovation team, added even more time […].

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Checkbook has joined Visa 's FinTech Fast Track program and launched Virtual Cards , a program that will expand the reach of real-time payments, according to a press release. Virtual Cards were created by Checkbook to reduce the fear of losing a wallet or being a target of credit fraud, according to the release.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- Is the prepaid card market saturated? In 2018, we will likely see fewer cards, but an increase in dollar loads,” Brown told Bank Innovation. Not quite, based on insights Sue Brown, director of prepaid debit advisory service at Mercator Advisory Group shared with Bank Innovation. “In

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JANUARY 24, 2021

The crimes that ended up driving the change in 2020 were scams and the darknet market, the blog's stats report. LVL, an upstart bitcoin exchange, has rolled out its own Mastercard debit card which it's taking pre-orders for, a report from CoinDesk says. More stats show that scams netted around $2.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the report, cybercrime touched nearly every sector throughout 2018, including those that may seem less obvious, like education or manufacturing — and for one obvious reason: the money. For example, Marriott , Facebook and a database marketing firm by the name of Exactis exposed the records of roughly 300 million people.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

With commercial cards continuing to press their way into accounts payable, a new report from Accenture suggests it’s the virtual card driving adoption of card-based B2B payments. for 2018 — meaning v-cards may secure a larger share of the corporate card spending space than physical corporate cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. One area of development that J.P.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The rate of credit card delinquencies jumped 52 basis points (BPS) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018, and will likely continue to increase over the next 12 months as consumers take on more debt. The rate of new delinquencies on credit cards stood at 6.42 The rate of new delinquencies on credit cards stood at 6.42

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

The Mastercard Track Card to Account Transfer, the release says, will let businesses use commercial cards to pay suppliers even if the suppliers don't take card payments. Mastercard Track was debuted in 2018, and works on real-time data collection and faster payments, helping businesses with B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Italian consumers are embracing a new government program aimed at boosting retail sales while tamping down on tax evasion that allows buyers to receive a 10% refund on card payments made in stores. By offering the incentive, they hope to cut down on black market deals and fraud, according to The Financial Times.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The United States’ tight labor market exacerbates competitive tensions for such agencies, though. That appears to concern many businesses as 74 percent of recruiters stated in 2018 that they expected to more intensely vie against other firms to attract new hires in 2020. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. rose from 3.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This year, retailers from Kroger to Whole Foods Market brought new offerings ranging from cashierless checkout to personal shopping services to their stores. In August, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced the rollout of a curbside pickup service for groceries in Virginia Beach and Sacramento. Personal Shopping Services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The program is housed in an app that will provide users with a photorealistic AR experience in a 360-degree virtual environment, where they can interact with a number of displays that educate them on the features of their card. To begin, the users must scan their cards on their phones. Power 2018 U.S. According to the J.D.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

bank NatWest has started a three-month trial of a biometric credit card that will use a fingerprint in lieu of a PIN. If the purchase is more than £100, then the card needs to be put into a terminal with the fingerprint as additional verification. . NatWest launched a test of biometric debit cards earlier this year. .

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Bank Innovation

MAY 20, 2019

As a growing number of consumers swap out cash for mobile or card payments, ATM numbers globally have begun to fall. It claims global ATM numbers fell by 1% in 2018 to 3.24 based consultancy and research firm RBR reported today that the number of ATMs worldwide fell for the first time. million, driven by […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Digital disbursements are appearing in unexpected markets , such as sports betting platforms and boatsharing sites. Data: 700 million: The number of active annual Alipay users exceeded this figure in 2018. taxpayers who received federal tax refunds via direct deposit as of May 2018. million: The number of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The following piece was written by Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages Pro , as a contribution to our 2018 year-end eBook. . Payments 2018 was a year of accelerated disruption. Then came checks, credit cards and wire transfers, with the most recent market explosion in several digital payment options.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Analysis of contactless card transactions revealed that the volume of commercial card contactless payments, both debit and credit, jumped 24 percent between 2018 and 2019. At the same time, commercial credit cards’ cash advances dropped 14 percent last year. SumUp Wields Cards For Faster Revenue.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Next week, shoppers at those 1,800 stores will be able to use contactless cards, as well as contactless mobile payments, via any one of the mobile wallet “Pays” — Apple , Google and Samsung. For the How We Will Pay 2018 Edition , PYMNTS and Visa conducted its annual study of U.S. Creating Contactless Momentum.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The CFPB has released its eighth annual report to Congress on college credit card agreements. The annual report is mandated by the CARD Act. (The The CARD Act requires mandatory reporting to the CFPB by card issuers on agreements with institutions of higher learning or certain affiliated organizations (such as alumni associations).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Even so, the global construction management software market is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2 percent from 2018 to 2022. What these studies didn’t reveal is that construction management software and tools like virtual cards can also speed payments and free up cash flow. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Russia’s trade associations have accused Visa and Mastercard of abuse of market power in the country. Reports state the complaint is focused on interchange fees – the amount paid by the lender servicing a trade outlet to the lender that issued the card. In the U.S. last month, they agreed to provide roughly $6.24 In the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

percent of the top innovators in the financial sector said they observe market trends first. percent said they wait even longer to release their innovations to market. Among the FIs that tend to release their innovations shortly after observing market trends, 81.3 As much as 53.3 For this, they can hardly be blamed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

The estimated value of the global intelligent vending machine market by 2025 is $15 billion. The wall-mounted machine also has a 21-inch screen for consumer interaction, and comes ready to accept near-field communication (NFC) contactless and card payments. The expected CAGR of the global parking meter market from 2018 to 2025 is 6.97

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

After posting better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings results, commercial payments firm WEX announced plans to acquire the fuel card assets of EG Group, Go Fuel Card. In a press release on Monday (March 25), WEX said it will acquire Go Fuel Card, the fuel card operations of the European fuel station EG Group.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Buca di Beppo , the Italian restaurant chain, reportedly knew about a data breach that resulted in two million credit card and debit numbers being stolen since Feb. KrebsOnSecurity said credit and debit card accounts from Earl Enterprises restaurants were up for sale as of Feb. 21 — but waited until the end of March to reveal it.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The startup credit card company offers its rewards card to people with no credit history. Since launching in the fall of 2018, the Petal card has signed up 50,000 customers, with more than 65 percent in the millennial and Gen Z demographic. ABS capital markets for Jefferies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

For example, over the last two years, Mastercard has moved its focus from start-ups that are still quite nascent, to those that have taken important steps to grow by raising funds, putting an actual product in market and beginning to scale. “And our goal is to find the opportunities to work together with start-up companies.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Payment processing company Worldpay and enterprise software firm Sage Group are teaming up to expand corporate card payment capabilities for joint business clients. market’s struggles with late invoice payments, citing Sage research that found 17 percent of all invoices issued from small and medium-sized businesses in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Capital One ’s domestic card loans increased 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 , the bank said on Tuesday (Jan. 22) as company executives gave an update of its card deal with Walmart. The financial institution (FI) said that, as of the end of Q4, the domestic card loans ending balance stood at $107.4

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MAY 7, 2019

Citigroup is the world’s largest credit-card issuer, with about 28 million customers, but the gap between its credit business and retail banking has grown larger. To combat this, Citi has begun testing perks for credit cards to encourage customers to get other banking products.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

While “reselling” or “secondary market” are more likely to keep ownership of this burgeoning market, the reselling market is reinventing itself for 2020. The company says 56 million women bought secondhand items in 2018, up from 44 million a year earlier. Nordstrom joins other department stores in the resell market.

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PYMNTS

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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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In our travels, certain payments-related messages have surfaced over and over, and as we enter 2018, bankers need to pay attention to these five themes: 1 – Debit: In 2018, market forces will take 3% of banks’ current interchange income. 24 this year), and 2018 won’t be any different.

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