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JUNE 21, 2019

Mobile Innovation. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the QSR word, mobile order-ahead. The effort to get that right on college campuses involves tokening credit card payments and providing seamless sign-in services. Subscription Rising.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Airbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO Amid Bookings Rebound. Verizon Debuts Visa Credit Card With Rewards. To provide a new method for cardholders to save on their cell phone bills, Verizon plans to debut the Verizon Visa Card. NEW DATA: How Credit Unions Are Innovating To Help Micro Businesses.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As more stakeholders and players join the fold, there’s a ripe opportunity to find innovative ideas in unlikely places. PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done?

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Payments 2016: The Year Of EMV-Enabled Cards. At the transaction level, consumers began to feel like they were more protected from fraud with the introduction of the EMV chip card. Throughout 2016, financial institutions continued to roll out new EMV-enabled cards to their consumers. Worst of Times.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

The executive said that among the most important factors in both sides of the relationship – that is, travelers and home owners – are “trust, protection and reliability,” noting that “every traveler should trust that their payment is secure, and every homeowner should feel confident that they receive payments on time.”.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits. FICO’s Take on Debit Security.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It explains why many fitness trackers, gym memberships, home exercise equipment, or books or apps on physical and financial self-improvement bought at the start of the year begin to collect dust right around Valentine’s Day – just in time for a big romantic dinner. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

While 2020 has been a monumental year for B2B payments digitization and innovation, plenty of friction still exists in the way corporate buyers pay their suppliers. Solutions like commercial and virtual card products, for instance, assure buyers the ability to extend capital float while accelerating payment to vendors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

ISOs sold terminals and card processing, mostly to brick-and-mortar merchants. Most people were still paying taxi drivers with cash, and if those drivers had POS terminals, they – hmm – weren’t working when you wanted to use a card to fund the ride. Chip cards didn’t exist in the U.S. The Connected Economy’s Potential.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

It looks like a race is shaping up to determine the future management of General Motors ’ credit card business. However, the Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that the London-based Barclays is also bidding for GM’s card business, while current issuer Capital One is unlikely to let the account go without a fight.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

The company claims that it doubled in size last year and has secured contracts to double in size again this year to arrive at 12 locations. And, for security, the suites come with solid woodgrain doors with deadbolt locks. Hospitality Innovations. Alternatively, members can show their cards at the counter.)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They must also take a more balanced approach to growth, sidestepping the payments innovation mistakes that established players have already made, according to Colin Gardiner, chief revenue officer for shared RV marketplace Outdoorsy. “We Outdoorsy users looking to rent their RVs list them on the online platform for local renters to book.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The commercial card space is anything but straightforward. For one, payments innovation has created an explosion in the types of cards businesses can use, from fleet cards to one-time-use virtual cards. But innovators in the space press on. “We’ll be in other continents by the end of the year.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Most of those solutions still rely heavily on checks and business credit cards — which are resource-consuming processes with higher risk[s] of misuse, fraud and theft,” Gitesh Athavale , head of product (cards) at Nium, told PYMNTS. That things came to a boil in 2020 is a matter for the financial history books at this point.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece. The (Advertising) Haves And Have-Nots.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

If the sure-thing principle can be believed, then last week’s Marriott breach of 500 million customer records won’t have much of an impact on the consumer’s decision to book a hotel room at a Marriott property for their next trip. Hackers got off with some 41 million customer accounts, including payment card details.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

To book one of the company’s apart-hotel units, travelers can use a few different channels. They can book through Airbnb , and most of the company’s units are Airbnb Plus. Locale also allows travelers to book directly through its website or via phone. For payments, Locale accepts credit cards (and does not take cash).

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JULY 22, 2019

Others are still relying on card networks to create more support for faster payments over mobile channels. Spanish bank BBVA Group has just created a mobile payment platform with the help of card networks Mastercard and Visa, which will allow customers to make payments without inputting sensitive customer information.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Human beings have been saying the above, or some variation on it, for approximately three thousand years since it was first written down in the Book of Ecclesiastes in 935 BCE. No matter how advanced we get, no matter how innovative technological advances we add on — there is always a little bit of history repeating in there.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

To provide consumers with less expensive and more flexible booking options, eCommerce innovators are taking new approaches to hotel reservations. With that scenario, a traveler could book the first night at a non-refundable rate and the others with a rate that allows free cancellation to, say, the day before check-in.

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MAY 14, 2019

Amadeus B2B Wallet Partner Pay is more secure, more straightforward and less costly for all players, which is essential for the adoption of a new payment innovation,” said Bart Tompkins, managing director of payments at Amadeus.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

We all remember cramming — all that coffee and/or soda, all those books, notes and ink stains. Maybe one day, quick-service restaurant ( QSR ) operators will look back upon 2019 as their cramming experience when it comes to digital security and fraud prevention. Heck, yeah!”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When it comes to booking online travel, one can start out with a broad or narrow search depending on flexibility. And, depending from where in the world one is booking and in what originating currency, frictions can lead to the traveling equivalent of an aborted takeoff. This lets them pay later in a way that feels more secure.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

14), Concur secured a deal to purchase Hipmunk. “We are excited to welcome Hipmunk, the innovation leader in travel search, to the Concur and SAP family,” said Concur President Elena Donio in a statement announcing the takeover. According to TechCrunch on Wednesday (Sept.

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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. percent of CUs actively invested in loyalty and rewards innovations during the past three years. Yet, only 29.4 The Need to Compete.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In a culture where anything new can develop a buzz of innovation, it’s important to determine which problems are worth solving. Fresh from securing a deal with Visa , Billtrust CEO Flint Lane shared his thoughts on how to make those determinations, and some other things, too. What does innovation mean to you?

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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. Competition is thus a multilevel event for hospitality services that need to juggle payment innovations, user perks and security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2017

Concur’s innovation arm, Concur Labs, is taking a look at virtual reality for corporate travel. Reports Monday (March 27) said Concur Labs has created a prototype using virtual reality (VR) technology that may help corporate travel managers when a security incident occurs.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The good news is that throughout 2020, the payments industry has been rapidly innovating and seeking to simplify and automate processes for merchants and consumers alike. Fraud and security issues are significant problems faced by all businesses, but small businesses often have fewer resources to recover. But we could be doing more.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Last year brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, Europe’s attempt to boost online privacy and security for consumers — a law that just resulted in a $57 million fine against Google , which was accused of not doing enough to gain the consent of users when collecting data meant for targeted advertising. 3D Secure 2.0

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

Notable performance by division included a fall-off in equity market trading, which saw an 11 percent drop in sales, and the overall markets and securities services group saw $4.4 The overall loan book grew by two percent year on year, matched by a two percent boost in overall deposits. billion in revenue. percent, up from 3.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Automated compliance systems can help FI staff ensure that their AML and KYC compliance is up to code, as these systems can perform thousands of security checks in the time it takes a human staffer to handle just a few. Cloud Payments Integration.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

In its oversubscribed series A funding round, OnPay , a Georgia-based payroll software startup, secured $6 million, the company said this week. The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. AvidXchange.

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MAY 11, 2018

Largely triggered by Google's demo showing Google Assistant imitating human voice to book a hair appointment (see here; it’s pretty impressive), the chatter on Day 3 of FinovateSpring here was all about conversational banking. SANTA CLARA, Calif.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As an innovator and disruptor in the commercial payments space, teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank and First Data empowers us with access to their respective networks so we can explore additional growth opportunities. . and exposing ‘money movement’ for what it really is: offsetting entries on both parties books.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you’re really into technology,” Leidinger was quoted as saying, “there’s a revolution happening in hospitality… you can drive, innovate and take ownership.”. The hotel chain is working to allow guests to use their smartphones to unlock room doors rather than having to carry around plastic cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As always — though perhaps more than most — stadium food managers are chasing the payments holy grail of speed and security. Legacy point-of-sale systems are slow, said Anderson, but at least they’re capable of complex functionality, despite their shortcoming in terms of innovation and infrastructure.

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