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OCTOBER 4, 2019

With the recent launch of the Apple Card , Apple has sent a signal that they seek to offer a better user experience than banks. In fact, their slogan for the card is “Created by Apple, Not a Bank?.” And the card is no longer just a payment instrument; it’s more than the card itself.”. Especially in the U.S.,

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MAY 28, 2020

As retailers scramble to capture the digital shift, it’s easy for some overlooked details, such as unanswered customer complaints, to harm their brands. To prevent this, a new category is emerging around the area of online reputation management , with a luxury automaker among the latest brands to embrace the technology.

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APRIL 17, 2020

To reportedly help it compete with Apple Pay and the Apple Card, Google is creating its own tangible and virtual debit cards. The tech company’s debit card will have the brand of Google along with its partnered financial institution; however, it is not known what the offering’s name will be.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

-based NatWest has introduced Apple Pay to its 1 million small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) business banking customers, giving them more options to make payments on the go, LearnerBonds reported on Tuesday (Nov. With Apple Pay, the actual card numbers are not stored on the device or Apple servers. In 2018, some 27.7

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Apple provided the latest endorsement of at-home connected fitness, announcing on Tuesday that Apple Fitness+ will launch in time for the winter gift-giving season. We know Fitness+ will take working out with Apple Watch to the next level with unparalleled engagement, convenience, and inspiration.”.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Merchants must constantly reevaluate their customer-targeting efforts to suit the latest commerce developments, and many are pivoting from brick-and-mortar advertising to focus their outreach online or via social media channels. These trends are in turn ratcheting up the number of customers who are moving to new brands.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In today’s top payments news, Banco Santander is acquiring just over 50 percent of the U.K. payments platform Ebury for $453 million. Also, Goldman Sachs has doled out approximately $10 billion in credit lines for the Apple -branded credit card. And Capital One is back online after a major outage. Apple Card?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Amazon Go stores in Seattle are reportedly being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading scanners, while automotive brands are taking control of digital purchasing platforms. The tech lets shoppers use their palms as an ID and payment method. Amazon Expands Palm Biometrics In Seattle .

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Digitally-native brands are testing the brick-and-mortar retail waters, and, now, new malls are set to have entire spaces designed around them: Hudson Yards, which is under development in Manhattan by the Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group, will reportedly house a dedicated floor for these brands called The Floor of Discovery.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A new survey has found that big retailers like Apple and Nike are losing favor in China, as consumers are showing a preference towards local brands. Chinese brands have been better at leveraging social media to reach out to shoppers in China,” said Catherine Lim, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst. There’s a stronger buzz.”.

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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. For payments, King Children accepts all credit and debit cards. Fitz Frames offers prescription glasses, blue light glasses and sunglasses. Solving Glasses.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

But the payments and eCommerce industries saw plenty of news as well, from Apple reaching a $2 trillion valuation to the U.S. NuoDB President and CEO Bob Walmsley joined Karen Webster to assess all of the week’s developments in our latest edition of This Week in Payments. Here’s what they discussed: Apple $2 Trillion Triumph.

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Is the expansion of Apple Pay’s functionality to include website functionality enough to enable the tech company’s payments venture to top PayPal, the reigning king of mobile payments?

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

The Tracker also explores how the payment preferences of younger generations — such as bridge millennials, millennials and Gen Z — may be well-suited for utilizing BNPL. Retailers worldwide are exploring the impact of BNPL solutions, especially in Australia, where the payment method is proving particularly popular.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

PYMNTS caught up with VB in the wake of big news from the Big Tech, payments and banking world: Google plans to launch consumer checking accounts next year in partnership with Citigroup and the Stanford Federal Credit Union. Code-named Cache, the accounts will be handled by Citi and Stanford Federal.

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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. A Thicker Mattress.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Even if the weather refuses to play nicely, at least we can count on the payments and commerce ecosystem to snap to life with some resets and fresh starts. 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.

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JULY 25, 2017

Penney has had a mobile website and coupons for quite a while, it recently announced news that Apple Pay will be accepted across all of its stores in the United States. Customers visiting the store will now have the capability to make payments on items through their iPhones and Apple Watches. ” .

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JUNE 27, 2016

This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . Working with our partner, InfoScout, we fielded our latest quarterly consumer study of Apple Pay adoption and usage in early June and just completed our analysis. We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay. PLEASE GIVE ME A TRY!

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Continuing its global expansion, the US-based brand Apple and its online payment service Apple Pay are now available in Costa Rica.

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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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JUNE 10, 2019

Stripe rolled out chargeback protection, Apple rolled out its take on sign-in authentication , Mastercard launched an open banking platform and Visa and Western Union paired on a global push to card payments – and those are just the top headlines. There were plenty of introductions last week.

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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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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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JULY 27, 2020

Payments need to go where consumers expect them now, too.”. Payments have gone beyond mere utility to become enablers of experience. 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.”.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment. In 2009, Uber made payments disappear.

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MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing. So, what should you be watching?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Online platforms have done much to transform payments — especially in terms of transparency, speed and distribution — across any number of verticals from ride-hailing to food delivery. Another challenge is how to get music onto the services — in a bid to monetize those creations across Apple Music and other services.

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MARCH 25, 2016

percent as investors expressed concerns over a new flank in Apple Pay’s strategy that would bring the payments service to mobile websites. This would mean that Apple would compete more directly with PayPal – and as sell side analysts noted, this is the first real direct head to head encounter between the two companies.

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MAY 8, 2020

“Now more than ever, people are counting on technology to help them make contactless payments, shop, and manage their finances without leaving the house,” said Sang Ahn, vice president and GM of Samsung Pay’s North America service business, in a statement. NFC works with digital wallets and powers contactless payments.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. 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.

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JUNE 9, 2017

In the early days of the Internet, brands and businesses knew they wanted to get online, but they just weren’t quite sure why, or how best to do it. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. Coming Customization.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

11 (“11-11”) in China and some other countries — saw online sales explode past last year’s sales totals. online sales seen last year between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. billion online during that period, according to Adobe Analytics data. brands from Apple to Nike made strong showings. and Apple Inc.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Goldman will likely pay a slight premium, intending to make up any losses by selling its own products to GM cardholders, such as online savings accounts, personal loans and investment products. Without a well-known brand or branches, Goldman has turned to partnerships like the Apple Card , which had $4.5

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is especially true in eCommerce, where friction points have crystalized around FX rates, accepted payment methods and, of course, fraud. brands such as Apple and Nike saw strong demand, according to reports, as did brands with a decidedly international presence such as Estee Lauder and Marriott International.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There is no such thing as a boring week in payments, of course. And, to be fair, the JPM Coin bears some resemblance to the Utility Settlement Coin (USC), which banks like Barclays and Credit Suisse have been developing – and Ripple Labs claims it is working with the 200 banks and payment providers on its RippleNet network to use USC.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The bank’s tech needs range from new products such as the Apple Card to its growing dependency on cloud infrastructure. In separate news, reports surfaced in November that Goldman Sachs said it doled out approximately $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple-branded credit card. Apple Card?

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