PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

Uber announced on Wednesday (April 17) that it is adding Apple Pay to its popular Uber Eats app, according to reports. Apple Pay has previously been a payment option for the Uber ride-hailing app, but the addition to the food app is new. Uber also accepts credit and debit cards, as well as PayPal. Those markets include the U.S.,

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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

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. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay. consumers showed that of the 7.75

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Banks and Apple Pay have not always had easy partnerships, but a hot market for co-branded cards gives Goldman Sachs a chance to advance its consumer ambitions and Apple an opportunity to offset slumps in device sales.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Meanwhile, Amazon is opening its first branded grocery store , and there are questions about discrimination and the Apple Card. Amazon To Open First Branded Grocery Store. Goldman Denies Discriminatory Apple Card Practices, Says It Will Reassess Limits. Former U.S. 11) before confirming the news.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

Apple’s New Chip Groove. Last week’s reports suggest that Apple will soon wave goodbye to its long-term chipmaker, Intel, in favor of making its own chips for Mac computers. The goal is to bring all Apple products into alignment in an attempt to make them work more smoothly, similarly and seamlessly in tandem.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Mobile Cards: Make or Break? One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer mattress brands as mattress sales move from brick-and-mortar retail to eCommerce. One brand, though, saw a market opportunity as brands like Casper and Leesa took off. But the brands currently on the market were a useful learning experience for Nectar.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion. This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Have you heard about Mini Apps or Apple’s new App Clips feature? Both concepts are relatively new, with Apple’s App Clips becoming available in IOS 14 this month (see our Prepare Your App for IOS 14 introduction ). You can even use Apple security to sign-in to your app without prompting with a form to fill in.

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PYMNTS

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. teenagers’ wish list is Apple ’s latest iPhone. percent of teen’s wish lists, with the top four consumer brands being the iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBooks and Airpods. The top item on U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If there was any stigma left about used clothing it may have been erased last week as Nordstrom put its high-end brand on what it calls “re-commerce.”. While “reselling” or “secondary market” are more likely to keep ownership of this burgeoning market, the reselling market is reinventing itself for 2020.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. It started with an announcement that a California Kroger subsidiary — Foods Co — would stop accepting Visa credit cards (but not debit cards) at 21 of its grocery stores and five of its gas stations, effective Aug.

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The Financial Brand

APRIL 30, 2023

This article Enthusiasm for Apple Savings Account High Among Millennials and Gen Z appeared first on The Financial Brand. Seven in 10 Apple Card holders and many who don’t yet have the card say they plan to open its high-yield savings account.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Shoppers can then check out using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay or health savings account (HSA) / flexible spending account (FSA) at launch. The Custom Eyeglass Market. Beyond Fitz Frames, King Children is another player looking to serve the market with custom glasses. Solving Glasses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In the latest bit of Apple Pay expansion news, Macquarie Group and ING Direct have announced that they will start using Apple Pay in Australia this month. Apple Pay has had something of a bumpy lift off down under — only one major Australian bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, has adopted the Apple Pay system.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. The company is also working with issuers, including Citi and Fifth Third Bank, to convert cards on file into tokens.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In addition, Razer ’s mobile wallet dubbed Razer Pay may come to tens of thousands of point-of-sale (POS) terminals in Singapore , and a Worldpay study has found that consumers in Singapore still prefer to make payments with credit cards over eWallets. At the same time, only 13 percent of adult smartphone users in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

This marks a change for Target — a retailer that had, up to this point, enabled mobile pay only for its own mobile wallet app and the Target-branded REDcard linked to it. That is consistent with what we have seen around the world when it comes to contactless card adoption,” Sanford said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The company is going the way of Nike, Apple, Shell and Target by eschewing the use of type in its logo, instead relying on its iconic image to remind users of the company. The text-free logo decision comes in the wake of the company trying to avoid the word “card,” as cashless technologies continue to spread and become more common.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

There are apps for all sorts of tasks, but Apple doesn’t want apps to do one thing in particular — mine crypto, CNBC reported. In an update to its developer guidelines, Apple has banned mining. Wells Fargo has also decided to ban its customers from buying crypto using its credit cards — at least for now, Bloomberg reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The project is expected to be co-branded. In March of 2019, Goldman and Apple joined forces to form a co-branded credit card, the Apple Card. The deal gives Goldman direct access to Apple’s more than 100 million U.S. subscribers. Recent consumer undertakings were lower than 3 percent of 2019 revenue.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The market for wearables is expected to reach nearly $70 billion by 2025, according to research firm IDTechEX , with healthcare-related products seeing the most growth. CNBC noted that the smartwatch market alone has doubled in size to $13 billion over the past three years, with Apple , Google and Samsung all actively competing in the space.

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Targeting competitors' key search terms helped tech giant push its new financial card into banking consumers' view, planting a big flag. The post Google Search Takeover Helped Launch Apple Card Marketing Drive appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point of sale. But EMV chip cards are more secure than magnetic stripe transactions, and newer versions of contactless cards use EMV.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

And though this market presents brands with a large audience of potential customers, will digitally native millennials tune in to a shopping network? In its effort to do so, Gravy doesn’t seek to make money selling the actual goods — it seeks to market the actual stage. Attracting Millennials. Payments And Cash Back.

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The Financial Brand

AUGUST 11, 2019

Now that Apple Card is in the market, banks and credit unions must ask: Can we match this high-powered offering from Apple and Goldman Sachs? The post Apple Card Rollout Threatens Traditional Financial Institutions appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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The Financial Brand

APRIL 18, 2023

This article Apple Card’s Newly Launched Savings Account Is Another Brick in the Walled Garden appeared first on The Financial Brand. Deposits are a challenge for the banking industry, but Apple's savings account is a much bigger competitive threat than just funding.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Shoppers can start a purchase in stores by selecting the card icon in the Afterpay mobile program, which activates the Afterpay card that can be used for purchases via Google Pay or Apple Pay. However, these purchases can be viewed as too costly in a market full of less expensive alternatives.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Excentus, a provider of loyalty marketing and technology services, announced Tuesday (Oct. 18) that it and Verifone, a player in payments and commerce solutions, have developed a solution to enable merchants using Verifone Commander Site Controller to offer their customers an electronic punch card loyalty program.

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The Financial Brand

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article An Analysis of Apple’s Strategy in Banking: Memojis, Marketing & Next Moves appeared first on The Financial Brand. It’s just as much part of Apple’s strategy for reeling in Millennials & Gen Z as its Apple Pay marketing. You can tell a lot from a memoji.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Never in the history of payments has there been such a media-frenzied, corporate disrupting and consumer-captivating moment as last week’s unveiling of Apple Pay as part of this week’s release of the iPhone 6. Apple shrewdly coopted its greatest weakness as an inexperienced new entrant. Where does it go from here? No one really knows.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

The funds can then be uploaded to a mobile wallet, including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay. Swift Prepaid is also supporting Bitty’s ability to provide immediate access to cash advances that are uploaded to business debit cards.

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