PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Welcome to the PYMTS Weekender, where we recap the week’s biggest development in payments and commerce. This edition includes news about Facebook’s new payments push, Amazon’s new robotics plan and why Google is working more closely with financial institutions. Facebook Launches ‘Facebook Pay’ For Cross-App Payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Publishers’ Letter Spotlights ‘Apple Tax’ – and Digital News Delivery. Several publishers – including The New York Times and CNBC – petitioned Apple’s CEO Tim Cook to offer a commission structure similar to the one given to Amazon. Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars.

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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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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Consumers can use Apple Pay at 36% of U.S. merchants now, up from 16% a year ago, according to a new report from Boston Retail Partners (BRP).

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 10, 2017

With Apple’s WWDC, Zelle, PayPal’s Venmo and Square Cash, and competition in the consumer payments space is about to kick into high gear, writes Josh Hawkins, vice president of marketing for the Boston-based digital payments company Circle.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

While some markets may be seeing relatively slower adoption of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) than others, there’s no denying that the overall popularity of mobile and contactless payments are growing fast among consumers. Meanwhile, POS solution providers like Ingenico are betting on the growing popularity of contactless payments.

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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. Korean consumers see no evil in mobile payments. The statistics get even better as the daily average number of mobile payments increased almost 83 percent to 810,000.

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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). All of those viewers present a massive commerce opportunity and a chance for payments to really shine.

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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). All of those viewers present a massive commerce opportunity and a chance for payments to really shine.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

The latest news on mobile payments shows that the big banks are wanting in on the mobile wallet race, but are they already too far back in the pack? Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Pharmacy operator CVS , for example, experimented with a program in Boston in which shoppers received free delivery on prescriptions and eCommerce purchases as well as other perks. percent — of health and beauty firms said consumer demand to use new payment methods was a motivation for inspiration. Just under half — or 45.9

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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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NCR

APRIL 26, 2018

The growth of contactless technologies as a fast, convenient option for everyday payment has been illustrated by new figures from Transport for London (TfL), which have revealed half of all pay as you go journeys on the UK capital’s transport networks now use this technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

They are increasingly able to serve more customers than ever before, thanks in large part to mobile payment acceptance technology. 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.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. And why advances in the field of voice and visual, particularly when applied to authentication, are poised to become such a disruptive force across the payments and commerce landscape.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The scorecard is mixed, delivering on only a few stated goals, but the most important goal pertains to digital payments. Where the impact to physical notes may have left something to be desired, digital payments are garnering more interest and headlines, and some marquee names are angling to get in. As such, Nov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. Barcode-Based Mobile Payments. The app will allow users to scan their prescription barcodes, which will trigger a cloud-based payment.

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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. Moving To Mobile Payments .

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MyBankTracker

MAY 7, 2021

John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. Once the request is received, an assistant to their licensed insurance representatives will call you from the Boston headquarters. Background on John Hancock. Indexed universal life insurance.

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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. The crux of my presentation being… “Chip and PIN” had no idea that they would inadvertently launch “Fish and Cushion” and that goes for the payments industry as a whole. What can I say? I crack myself up. Here’s why….

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans. 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?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

And it’s going to shake the payments industry by its ankles. Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” What is it you ask? Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Payments have always been about what’s next, Karen Webster recently noted, from the first exchanges made for seashells to bitcoin and beyond. Go to Innovation Project, aka “The Davos of Payments,” for two days of closed-door, off-the-record conversations on the campus of Harvard University. The simple answer is … well, simple.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Giving consumers a safe and trusted online payments experience means being comfortable finding and then following the paths not typically taken to uncover potential vulnerabilities – and then defending those decisions to team members and management. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. have been settled.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. Fearful of giving up ground to a tech intermediary — Apple , Google , Amazon — many OEMs are working with third parties to develop their own branded apps and connected in-dash experiences. population had a phone in their homes.

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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. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant. Fees follow.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. Two weeks ago, eBay’s decision to intermediate payments wiped about $8 billion in market cap from PayPal in the space of 48 hours. The average height of a female in the U.S. A week ago it was 28 degrees.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

When it comes to mobile payments, there are plenty of question marks. That’s why PYMNTS and InfoScout track those burning questions and more — and we have plenty of news to share in this week’s Mobile Payments Tracker as we continue last week’s delve into the PYMNTS/InfoScout mobile payments adoption data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The year may be winding toward a close and slowing down, but this week the world of payments showed signs of neither as big players seemed to be racing down to the wire to get their big news out before the clock strikes 12 on the 31st and the calendar resets to 2020. The B2B Receivables Revolution . for each share.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

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. And Walgreens, the nationwide chain of drugstores, said its mobile wallet payments had doubled since Apple Pay came out. might never regain the strategic heights.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Digital and payments plans were developed, investments are being made, and transformation projects are being executed. If that is not enough, the bank established MVB Edge Ventures and now has equity positions in Flexia Payments, Grand and Victor – all of which are embedding payments, banking, and risk management services in new ways.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

PYMNTS: So, in your opinion, where is the future of the payments industry headed, and will retailers ever be able to figure out the $4 trillion online cart abandonment issue ? AK: The next two years in the world of payments is going to be unlike anything you have seen in the world of online payments in the last 10 or so years.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

Move over, Apple Pay. Featuring technology from Finovate Best of Show winner LoopPay , Samsung’s Samsung Pay mobile payment service is on its way. Now, Samsung is announcing that its unique take on mobile payments will launch in South Korea on August 20 and in the United States on September 28.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. Is it “a bot time” for peeps in payments to get on board and confront the reality that bots are today what apps were in 2007 and 2008?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As mobile payments continue their race into the mainstream, land grab expansion seems to have become the name of the game. That announcement comes as most of the global payments-watching community was watching Samsung Pay’s imminent foray into India. Apple’s move this week is about merchants. Speaking of watching — and watches….

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FICO

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

One driver of this observation is likely the FCRA-mandated seven-year purge rule for negative information, which means that missed payments reported in the 2007-2009 period (epicenter of the recession) have been dropping off of people’s credit reports. Paul and Boston.

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