PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“N26 aims to connect all aspects of our users’ lives seamlessly and that includes partnering with their favorite brands,” said Nicolas Kopp, U.S. These new Perks enable our customers to receive benefits and discounts when booking travel, trying new experiences and products, or simply using the products they love every day. CEO of N26.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Though commercial card innovation has recently hit an acceleration point, there is still plenty of room for progress. Power took one key friction point of the small business (SMB) credit card market to task. “Basics like credit card terms, and benefits and services, are the lowest-scoring factors in our study.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

It will be a series of virtual market weeks to help businesses connect with customers at a time when in-person events are impossible to hold. These three virtual market weeks can help answer member and toy community needs. The first market week will be July 13 through 19. Two additional weeks are planned for Aug.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s been a rough road for card-linked offers. In theory, the fostering of a connection between merchants and customers by integrating offers directly into the network-branded account they’re using at the merchant sounds ideal. Evangelizing For Gifting.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The newly branded company aims to innovate the way travel merchants promote and sell across all digital channels. “I am very excited to unveil our new brand, which captures our ambition and capability as both FinTech and travel tech specialists. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution. .”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Silicon Valley credit card startup Brex has begun a points transfer partnership for its rewards program with JetBlue Airways , Brex announced in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. The program reinforces Brex’s airline transfer platform, which is offered alongside travel booking and statement credit. . 24, 2019, and Oct. 24, 2019. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Many enjoyed huge first-day price pops, heating up the IPO market even more — and 2021 seems poised to only continue the fireworks. Popular stock-trading app Robinhood Markets reportedly recently hired Goldman Sachs to lead a possible 2021 IPO that would value the company at more than $20 billion. Then shares soared 85.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

UATP exists as the oldest payments network in the world, having been in service for more than 83 years and serving the global air travel market exclusively. After all, trips are booked months in advance and can be tweaked, changed drastically in terms of the detail (destinations and days) or cancelled outright.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

7) as the Ikea brand continues to shift itself to digital, according to published reports. The chain plans to commemorate it with a book due out next autumn. The same trend has been underway for the past decade or so in mass-market publishing. Do catalogs work for every brand? The decision was announced Monday (Dec.

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MyBankTracker

JUNE 15, 2020

With no annual fee, this card could be a good choice for the occasional traveler who wants to earn free nights or the regular spender who’s interested in racking up hotel points. But is the American Express Hilton Honors Card right for you? Not as rewarding if you use the card to book hotels other than Hilton properties.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

Citigroup results came in better than expected for the second quarter, the firm said Friday, buoyed by growth in emerging markets and its overall loan portfolio. The overall revenue growth came as North America’s top line was up five percent and emerging markets were up 10 percent. billion, versus $17.5 billion expected.

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MyBankTracker

JUNE 3, 2020

If you spend regularly at hotels while traveling, opening a hotel rewards credit card could be a money-saving move. Hotel credit cards allow you to earn rewards you can then redeem for free award nights. Not as rewarding if you use the card to book hotels other than Hilton properties. There is an annual fee of $95.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

There are more than a few mind-blowing stats about Amazon , most of them having to do with its 44 percent of the eCommerce market, or maybe the $88.9 billion in revenue it booked during the second quarter of 2020. Some of those options had great marketing and sounded good, but they just didn't work for the seller.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2024

For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. For the most part, early-bird (or very-early-bird) prices are still in effect, so you can easily save $1,000 or more on a pair of tickets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

That’s especially true of the travel industry, where a “mobile-first” mentality and the emergence of online marketplaces has increasingly brought an omnichannel experience to researching, booking and paying for trips. As he told Webster, “I don’t think we’re quite there yet.”. It’s ahead of me, and helping me — and it’s cool and fun.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Walmart announced Wednesday (August 22) the launch of its new eBook service dubbed Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo, which provides customers with access to an all-new digital catalog of books in the stores and online. Customers can also purchase digital book cards in 3,500 Walmart stores.

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OCTOBER 5, 2019

That lost library book we had almost managed to convince ourselves no longer existed. The book that became the second reason we’ve avoided going to the library since the waning days of the second Bush administration. Can I be arrested for holding onto a library book for over a decade? The first being Amazon, of course.).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

As perks for consumers go, cash-back offerings remain the leader of the pack when consumers are choosing credit cards. 13 percent of adults have an airline or hotel credit card, and 12 percent have a general travel rewards credit card, according to surveys by CreditCards.com and YouGov Plc. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

But while there are a nearly endless number of cases presenting corporate payments challenges, increasingly, businesses of all kinds are seeking a similar experience — and prepaid card technology can be a valuable tool in meeting those requirements. It also includes the growing market for employee rewards, incentives and wellness programs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

However, unless one happens to work in a big company and have their travel booked through a managed travel department, chances are they’ve never heard of the network. The savings that airlines enjoy from corporates booking via UATP’s rails are used to create tailored offers for their corporate customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It was the wild card category for back-to-school, and it will be the wild card category for the holidays. percent, just four points ahead of clothing and apparel and two points ahead of sporting goods, hobby, music and books. 15, no one could fault the retailer for putting the full weight of its brand behind Walmart+.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Ending poverty, fighting cancer, and bringing women into tech fields: all in a day’s work, along with simpler pleasures like reading a book with one’s child each night or adopting a pet from a shelter. The card network announced Thursday (Feb. Buying the celebratory beer with Mastercard, apparently.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

It is a beauty scheduling app that enables consumers to book digital appointments with their preferred stylists, while also offering a turn-key appointment solution for hairstylists looking to build an online booking hub for their clients. It was, in her mind, like OpenTable – but for beauty appointments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

card network in 1985 by turning a merchant’s cardholder base – 25 million Sears customers – into Discover cardholders by letting them use those cards at other merchants. There was the same talk then about retailers not letting consumers use a payment card owned by their largest rival. Guess what? Because Everyone Has to Eat.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2018

That’s why Americans will collectively spend $23 billion this year buying tokens of appreciation for their mothers in the form of flowers, cards, candy and consumer electronics that they will give to them on Sunday, May 13: Mother’s Day. I think our brand is very kid-first and fun.”. At launch, Kidbox carried around 30 kid’s brands.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Millennials and younger generations are digitally minded and want to interact with brands that can answer their personal requests through online and mobile channels.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s hard to pin down exactly when the term “personalization” entered the business lexicon, but the 1993 book, The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time , by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, certainly helped launch the term’s popularity. Challengers are picking off bank customers with macro-personalization.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Stitch Fix Kids , for example, sends out a selection of kids’ clothing each month, while GiftLit focuses on curated children’s books. Such boxes represent a small segment of the broader subscription market, but they face the same challenges, including fraud attempts like card-and-wallet tests and account takeovers (ATOs).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Loyalty is a tricky proposition, especially as plastic cards have given way to mobile payments, and there is little mercy for those businesses that get loyalty wrong. Most of the purchases they make, most of the cards they choose, have loyalty rewards attached to them,” Stevens told Webster. For me, loyalty is a solution to that.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

“It’s our HOHM rest pod, sleeping pod but it’s also the technology for the people of that location to book it,” Woods told PYMNTS in an interview. Through the site, consumers can book a pod to recharge for a block of time ranging from 30 minutes up to 4 hours. The Sleeping Pod Market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

ISOs sold terminals and card processing, mostly to brick-and-mortar merchants. The Collison brothers had founded Stripe, but it would be a year before it would be in-market. Chip cards didn’t exist in the U.S. Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India. The Connected Economy’s Potential.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

banking market. million, gives the startup a £200 million loan book and £300 million in deposits. We will continue developing and rolling out our app and credit card as planned, [now] with a little more spring in our step. When the deal is finalized, we’ll operate the whole business under the Tandem brand.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

The dog days of summer are almost upon the retail world, and if a warm winter wasn’t enough to suppress sales at some of the most established brands in the industry, the next few months could have a real impact on the look of the overall landscape. Closely following is Diamond Book Distributors and the $1.6-million

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

banking market. That acquisition gave Tandem a £200 million loan book and £300 million in deposits. We will continue developing and rolling out our app and credit card as planned, [now] with a little more spring in our step. When the deal is finalized, we’ll operate the whole business under the Tandem brand.”.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Things were a bit more active on the Amazon front, with a big infrastructure investment pushing its market cap back over the $1 trillion line, a new B2B financing partnership with Goldman Sachs potentially in the offing and its expanding stores and services menu. The loans themselves would reportedly be co-branded.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. The specific issue that I’m referring to is merchant surcharging – a fancy term to describe the fee charged by merchants when consumers use network-branded card products to pay for their purchases.

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