PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Etsy is hardly alone: eCommerce is experiencing year-over-year growth of 14 percent, according to the Payments Powering Platforms Tracker , and merchants looking to capitalize on this rise must accept the preferred payment methods of their customers, which include everything from credit cards to PayPal to Venmo and everything outside and in between.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Customers can take advantage of the program in a variety of ways, including via the Tim Hortons app, a physical loyalty card and a digital card available for Apple and Android phones. The QSR industry is particularly appealing to bad actors, as many related apps store credit card information and other highly desirable data.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Visa And The Future Of Venue Payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Visa And The Future Of Venue Payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

22) before reportedly extending the service into Boston and New York, among other cities. In other news, Apple announced that five major retailers now have Apple Pay: The tech company said that Taco Bell, Target, Speedway convenience stores, Jack in the Box and Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest support the digital payment service.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. Apple Needs To Diversify. But the big problem for Apple Pay is that users are not convinced that it is a better way to go than the method they currently use.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pedicab drivers in cities like Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., can now accept credit and debit card payments thanks to mPOS systems that allow them to take cards while on-the-go. Mobile payment pioneer Apple announced it would widen the reach of Apple Pay. Around the mPOS world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

It is currently operating in New York, Chicago and Boston, but has received driver requests from 49 U.S. Passengers go to the URL, enter the vehicle code, browse the menu and check out using a credit card or a mobile payment option like Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. Eat Your Coffee accepts credit cards as well as express checkout options, including PayPal , Amazon Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The Differentiators.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

What CVS says is unique about CVS Pay (clearly not the name) is that it enables HSA and other co-pay information to be stored in the app so that the proper amount is charged to the user’s registered card at checkout. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices. have been settled.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2018

At one of the busiest locations, Oxford Circus, TfL noted there are almost half a million contactless journeys a week – the equivalent of 50 cards or smartphones being tapped every minute. For instance, New York, Sydney, Miami and Boston have all announced plans to introduce contactless payments in the coming years.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). You want to know what really sizzled this week? As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something. They know they can do that anywhere they shop – the biggest of the big stores and the smallest of the mom-and-pop shops – and that their card will be accepted and will work.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Fees follow. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Back in 1870, it took days to get cash from Boston to San Francisco through a combination of railroads and horseback. But the fact of the matter is that it is really easy now for people to pay merchants — it takes a couple of seconds with a card — and it’s not that hard to pay people. That’s really been the story in payments.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

It’s called Card Risk Assessment for Blackjack Scenarios, or CRABS for short. McDonalds, which accepts Apple Pay at its 14,000 restaurants in the United States, said Apple Pay accounted for 50 percent of its tap-to-pay transactions. The only card he had with him was that driving licence that S. Out of nowhere, N.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Based on a clearly defined strategy, this team has established a dedicated fintech group that offers services ranging from BaaS to sponsoring card issuance and lending, to providing crypto services, to offering niche partnerships to the gaming industry. Goes to Larry Mazza and the crew at MVB Bank in West Virginia. The Stock to Own in 2021.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

Move over, Apple Pay. Samsung’s decision to acquire LoopPay in February for $250 million was a clear sign that the company stepping up to the challenge of Apple’s mobile payment technology, Apple Pay. ” LoopPay was founded in August 2013 and remains headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts post-acquisition.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The data digs into the likes, dislikes and habits of Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay mobile payments users. Why do mobile payment users choose another method if they have taken the trouble to load their card data? In the span of a week, almost 50 percent of Apple Pay users had not used their app, versus only 1.3

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FICO

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another theory is that people’s exposure to their credit reports and FICO® Scores, like seeing their updated FICO® Score on their monthly credit card statements, may have increased awareness and resulted in more prudent management of their personal finances. Paul and Boston. MSA 1 (City) Level View.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Apple’s move this week is about merchants. New research suggests that Apple Pay has gone from being accepted at 16 percent of U.S. And it is a 90 percent that Samsung will compete for unopposed, since neither Apple nor Android Pay have any immediate plans to take on the Thai market. merchants to 36 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

When you think of Apple Pay in a web context, it should really be called Apple Checkout. The only two companies that can do this are Apple and Google. The first is Apple has like over 600 million accounts. AK: With [Apple], it’s really a joint go-to-market-type thing. And they can do it for a few reasons.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The world of B2B payments saw its latest significant acquisition play this week with Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill announcing its intention to acquire VersaPay, a company that provides cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions. Google, Amazon And Apple — The Connected Home Team Of Rivals . The B2B Receivables Revolution .

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Demoing first with apple watch. Is this the first time we have seen an apple watch as apart of a demo today? Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Plus the 1% rewards. Virtual reality?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2016

We take our weather very seriously in Boston.”. Apple Pay was new, everyone was excited and the world was more or less convinced that plastic cards were about to go the way of the typewriter. After all, who wants an analog solution like a card in a digital world? Grievance: Why are you just not that into us?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One possible new healthcare area for Amazon involves non-emergency medical transportation – at least according to Robin Heffernan, CEO and co-founder of the Boston-based Circulation , whose software coordinates rideshares and other forms of transportation for patients in need of non-emergency care. And the frontier will keep expanding.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 19, 2017

Naturally, as is the case for most forward-looking of retailers, they do not take cash, so I paid with one of the many cards about my person. Perry Kramer, vice president and practice lead at consultant Boston Retail Partners, contends that as many as four-fifths of (US, I presume) retailers are already “largely cashless”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. In what was a huge blow for the DOJ who brought the antitrust case to court on behalf of merchants, the 66-page decision said that consumers weren’t harmed and if merchants didn’t like taking American Express cards because the fees were too high, they could just not take them. Better not.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

An app with a card on file, Uber, as all of us who are addicted to it know, requires no intervention on the part of the consumer to pay and tip the driver. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That means our focus in payments should be about swapping out mobile phones for plastic cards at the point of sale inside the store — right? Whipping out a card (or cash) has been how gasoline has been bought as long as there have been cars on the road. Charges are made to the card on file in the app. Take books, for example.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up. How about Facebook gift cards?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. For millions of consumers accustomed to using credit and debit cards, the proposition of using a fingerprint hasn’t been all that appealing. “It’s hard to fight the credit-card companies,” says Gartner (IT) analyst Avivah Litan. ” via Boston Globe. via Boston Magazine.

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