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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs. Until March of 2020.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Consumers want cards, and they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way," said Turner. The company said that through the expansion of its Digital-First Card Program, which was announced last Wednesday (Sept.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. economy had moderate gains in the pandemic year of 2020.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Use of a charge card similarly grew year over year from 23 percent to 31 percent.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. 2020 Trendline One: Rapid Acceleration Of Cash To Digital Payments.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

market for initial public offerings (IPOs) had a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic — or perhaps because of it. billion during 2020’s first nine months. Considered an online version of a dollar store, ContextLogic looked in many ways like the next Amazon. percent during 2020’s first nine months to $1.75

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APRIL 24, 2020

In-person payments of transactions like parking violation fines or sanitation fees is no longer possible, leaving government entities to accelerate their electronic and online payment acceptance capabilities. ” Accelerating ACH Innovation. Yet ACH volume is on the rise, and that includes in the B2B payments context.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Consumers, in short, entered spring 2020 realizing that their old, largely physical habits for feeding themselves were a bad fit in a world where proximity between themselves and strangers was frowned upon as a public health liability. Digital Innovations Will Outlast the Pandemic That Inspired Them. Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins.

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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. Following The Consumer Trend.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Shorten the timeframe a bit, and it gets (just a bit) easier to see what may be rushing toward us – or what we may be rushing toward — in terms of innovation in-store, online and across all manner of channels. In fact, a time capsule sealed today, with a prediction of what Dec.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Outback Steakhouse Debuts Curbside Gift Card Concierge. Outback Steakhouse has rolled out a new “curbside concierge” for holiday gift-card shopping that will allow customers to call ahead or go to their nearby restaurant and drive to a set gift-card drive-up parking spot with the service.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

This week, Stripe introduced banking services, we get a glimpse of the EU's upcoming Digital Services Act and PYMNTS' data reveals online purchases ruled Black Friday. Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To bring its fashions to new markets, Zara plans to roll out a global online platform. For payments, the company plans to support major credit cards, along with PayPal. Orders will be fulfilled from Zara’s Spanish online platform and orders will be in euros. The full online catalog will be operational by 2020.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, India’s pay-later app Slice is introducing a no-fee Visa Card, while Stripe is purchasing payment processor Paystack. Plus, London’s FinTech space has been going strong in 2020 despite the pandemic. In VC Investments So Far In 2020. Data: London FinTechs Netted $3.6B

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APRIL 7, 2020

But the numbers tell a tale, and recent stats in the March 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index show the need for CUs to step up their efforts to innovate. CUs need to move beyond payments, said Fagan, and embrace what he termed a “full-scale, full-service approach to innovation.” percent to a recent 21.9 Keeping Score.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers. Indiana University will have them this month.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

In today’s top news, The Clearing House (TCH) is increasing the value limit for general transactions on the TCH-operated real-time payments (RTP) network, Verizon is working with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card and the United States is moving to get tough on the sale of counterfeit merchandise through eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. These lanes allow customers to order and pre-pay online and pick up at a designated time. Loyalty, too, is a source of innovation. Pickup Windows. Contactless Payments.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small Business Innovation. million in 2020, making up nearly all (99.9%) U.S. The number of small businesses in the U.S. reached 31.7

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AUGUST 4, 2020

The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. As for how they’re navigating those shortfalls, 37 percent of SMB owners are tapping personal funds, while 26 percent are using personal credit cards.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

In merchant innovation, an increasing share of consumers are tapping into mobile devices and laptops to do their shopping or make their journeys to physical retail stores more efficient. And in B2B payments, virtual cards are helping firms manage spend in real time. All this, Today in Data. Data: $600B : Collective amount U.S.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. Booking Holdings cautioned investors on Thursday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

The antitrust suit challenged the acquisition, saying it would put Visa in a position to maintain a monopoly in the online debit card market. The proposed deal originated in January 2020, PYMNTS reported. Plaid’s service allows users to share banking information with apps like Chime and Venmo.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Visa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud By 87 Pct. Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Even after the pandemic subsides, the digital acceleration we experienced in 2020 will not — it is here to stay." . In the midst of these struggles, the payments industry has risen to the occasion and innovated to become an even more integral part of the economy and people’s lives.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Herron and Webster agreed that’s not too surprising, given consumers’ 2020 drift toward digital and the large set of eCommerce upgrades that merchants have made over the past eight months. Before COVID-19, there were probably a lot of demographic groups that didn't know how easy it is to order online and then head to the store for pickup.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Online sales of such products are projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2020, presenting a problem for third-party marketplaces that allow individual sellers onto their platforms. Fast Speeds, Smaller Packages and Online Counterfeiting. It’s the stuff that you and I go online and order and get shipped directly to us at home.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Issuers sent cards to consumers and providers sent point-of-sale (POS) devices and terminals to merchants. Bringing consumers and merchants together used to be a fairly straightforward process. But the lines of commerce have blurred, presenting both challenges and opportunities for merchants to engage with their targeted shoppers.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. Online Resale. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

With trade shows canceled and enterprise digitization accelerated, 2020 was a big year for the adoption of B2B eCommerce. As the trend proliferated, it opened up new opportunities for businesses to migrate their payment workflows online, too.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Debatably the most impactful payments innovation of recent years — and that’s saying something — BNPL is having a massive impact on retail, as evidenced by the proliferation of brands and the steady flow of venture capital to players that are defining the space. Let’s go with “pay later.”. percent of millennials have them, as do 88.8

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JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. AvidXchange.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

PSCU’s recent 2020 Eye on Payments , which polled more than 1,500 CU members and other FI customers in the United States, found 70 percent of respondents decide how to pay for a product or service based on which safe options are available at the point of sale.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

on Halloween 2020, we’re confronted with the prospect of a long, strange COVID winter. As PYMNTS noted in the Pandenomics report in early October, “the biggest change of all will likely be the share of consumers shopping for groceries online. Payments Innovation Leads the Way . Our research shows that 85.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. 23-25, 2020. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

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