PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. It’s finally here: with the iOS 11.2 Microsoft.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Green Dot Corp released earnings on Tuesday that topped analyst expectations, with 55 cents a share reported, versus estimates of 40 cents a share, as organic growth and card counts both showed momentum in the period. Streit also said the company has entered an agreement to acquire a small tuck in secured credit card portfolio. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Mobile technology by payments provider ACI Worldwide is a crucial part of the Co-operative Group’s (Co-op) new pay-in-aisle app, the firm said in a July 31 press release. . especially in urban areas and among millennials,” said Andrew Quartermaine, vice president, ACI Worldwide. One of the U.K.’s The Co-op was the first U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Perhaps the biggest story in P2P, though, is the ongoing battle between P2P providers Zelle (operated by Early Warning Services ) and Venmo (owned by PayPal ). The Zelle network is used by an upwards of 5,391 financial institutions (FIs), either through a mobile banking app or by registering a debit card with Zelle’s app.

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NCR

JUNE 15, 2017

The peer-to-peer (P2P) payments market has been getting crowded of late, and owners of iOS devices in the US will soon have a new option to choose from as part of the annual update to Apple’s mobile operating system. The post Apple takes on Venmo in P2P payments market appeared first on Banking.com.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

When consumers point their cameras at an object, Bixby Shopping identifies it and directs that shopper to an eCommerce site operated by a Samsung partner. Mobile shopping game show app Gravy wants to capture the attention of millennials with short game shows almost every night of the week. These apps can be quite entertaining too.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The program is operable immediately. The consumer electronics side excludes some key brands, such as Apple, Samsung, Dell, Google and Sony. Beginning this month, REI members can trade in their own used gear through the co-op's online, member-only trade-in program to receive REI gift card credit. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While mint chocolate chip ice-cream might be the way to a foodie’s heart, MintChip digital currency is not the way to a millennial’s mobile wallet, apparently — at least not in Liberty Village, Toronto. Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Apple Needs To Diversify. is mired in cybersecurity anxieties.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. The company integrated GO-PAY into the GO-JEK app, which lets customers store money on their mobile phones, much like a digital debit card. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 billion in 2017.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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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. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Not because he didn’t have a buyer, but because his buyer didn’t have that much cash— and McKelvey didn’t take credit cards. Among sellers who have accepted a loan from Square Capital, 54 percent are women and 46 percent are men; among millennial business owners, 60 percent are women and 40 percent are men. The Bumpy Road. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Customers participate through a customer intake program in the Nordstrom New York City store in exchange for Nordstrom gift cards that can be spent at its signature brands as well as its owned brands HauteLook and Trunk Club. It is playing the sustainability card this year, with Fashion Footprint Calculator.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

26, the eCommerce operator — via its Alexa Skills Kit Blog — announced the debut of “two new Alexa capabilities that will help create a more natural and intuitive voice experience for your customers.”. The company has an option to transfer money to the bank without a debit card for the same fee. 18 announcement. #3:

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

By way of example, Fagan noted that with the “pays” ( Apple Pay , Google Pay and Samsung Pay ), if those firms tried to go individually to several thousand credit unions, the effort would be a struggle. For users, being able to use points accumulated at the point of sale, with ease, can be a game-changer, cementing loyalty for cards.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The more enabled, the data shows, the more quickly and flexibly an FI can respond to changing consumer patterns in areas like credit usable, the more products it can offer and the efficiency it can operate and optimize its offers. Among bridge millennials, Americans biggest earning and spending demographic, the figure jumps to 41 percent.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There’s a demographic push at work here, too, said Carcillo, which he defined as “millennial consumer groups.”. That’s the number of Merchant Link customers that are asking about contactless payment — with the operative word being “asking.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices. But for the last three decades or so, the business model did not change very much. There are challenges to be ironed out.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. 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 Fees follow. “By

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. A whopping 63 percent of millennials (ages 18 to 29) don’t have a credit card, according to a survey commissioned by Bankrate and compiled by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Offer millennials the human touch.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Finance said this past week that a third of card payments were done the contactless way, and this was up 18 percent year on year to 4.5 Given that the debit and credit card share of total retail sales is at 77 percent, acceleration in contactless may be in the (virtual) cards. billion pounds.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Visa says cybercriminals are using new strategies to steal credit card information from around the country. In a feature story , PYMNTS spoke with Eric Lorenz, vice president of finance operations for Priceline, about how the company leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to promote seamlessness as well as security.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

If they’re not using the app, consumers can go online and register a rewards or credit card and get a More account, signing up for emails or text messages for alerts about promotions. What’s ahead? They want to go into a platform and get information before they make a purchase.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

In 1985, Microsoft released its first (not so popular) version of Windows — an operating system that enabled applications to deliver functionality on a variety of personal computers. Two: Platforms have to operate at scale. Even payments cards charge both sides. And, to use our word, ignition. That’s really important.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 15, 2015

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Branch innovation and branch closings.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Payments had been relatively static with innovation around cash, checks and credit cards. In the last four years, we’ve had the adoption of bitcoin, Samsung and Apple Pay and the explosion of FinTech,” said Jenkins. Of course, it’s not just the FinTech industry and tech-savvy millennials who are fueling digital change.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

In 2003, the majority of the online shopping was done at the desktop at the office when the boss wasn’t looking, and that experience included laboriously typing in card credentials at every site. All you millennials out there, ask your parents what they used to do as teenagers on Saturday afternoons. Should they focus on apps?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

Moderated by PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, the panels featured Tony Fadell, one of the creators of Apple stalwarts including the iPod and iPhone and former CEO of Nest, and Jim McCarthy, EVP and global head of innovation at Visa. What drives innovators, to, as Apple once nudged us, “think different?” We could, but why?

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Diana Chin (HR & Operations). 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. That’s new.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Millennials still make up the largest share of shoppers who begin and complete their shopping journeys via mobile phones, but baby boomers make up 28.3 The top performers in the current retail market are not the digital marketplaces one might assume, but merchants with both brick-and-mortar and online operations. This compares to 45.1

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Apple and Google have enabled their mobile web browsers for video content to play automatically on web pages as long as the audio is muted. And, according to Pew Research, millennials are the group most concerned about running out of data (and the group most likely to use a mobile phone for payments). Autoplay May Not Mean Autopay.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One of the general topics at hand was what it might take to get more restaurants — including quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and fast-casual operations — to get in the game and update their technology, payment and guest engagement efforts for 2020. The stakes are too high to stay behind the pack for too long. Innovation Sparks.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Second Curve analyst Zack Maxfield opened a TD Bank checking account on his phone in nine minutes while he waited to speak with a teller at one of the bank’s branches, but waited an hour to fund the account and order a debit card. The workplace a millennial will most confuse with Silicon Valley – Live Oak Bank in North Carolina.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The magic of a better-than-a-taxi-ride ending and simply stepping out while the payment resolved quietly by itself on the backend was foremost a central appeal for Uber, particularly when stacked against the always somehow broken card readers in the back of cabs that required cash payments. “We wanted to formalize a lot of it.”. “At

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Getting on board with this new technology is key for banks and financial institutions as they look for ways to attract millennial consumers. This year, the Digital Banking Tracker looked at millennials’ financial habits and why younger users favor digital banking solutions over traditional banking models.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Music is sold by the song — for those who still buy digital music — but more likely those songs are streamed, one song at a time, from services like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, many people, if they read the Grey Lady at all, open Apple News or Flipboard and get a selection of articles, including some free ones from the New York Times.

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