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APRIL 17, 2018

That option is not always available with the traditional suspects for business travel booking, like travel agents or online travel agencies (OTAs). As a result, Avi Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience when he helped found Travelperk. “We That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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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. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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JULY 31, 2019

The image stems from about two or three centuries ago, when medieval superstitions were being seriously challenged by empirical thought, and the view has been reinforced countless times — even into the early 21st century if you look hard enough — by books, movies, TV shows and other methods of cultural communication. FinTech Partnerships.

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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.”. That includes the payment of airline fares.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Online business travel booking and expense management company Serko is entering the “world of virtual card payments,” the company said this week, announcing a partnership with virtual card company Conferma. “Integration with Serko is key to getting mass adoption.”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. The clothing retailer is hardly alone, as 85 percent of merchants say that they innovate to stay competitive, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , while 77 percent say they use it to drive sales.

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JUNE 15, 2017

There’s no disputing that the pace of innovation in consumer payments over the last several years has been quick and its reach broad. There’s been an abundance of innovation in where consumers shop, what they use to pay when they buy and the devices they use to enable those payments. Raising the Level of the Game.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Hospitality Innovations. The app asks consumers where they are going, what time and day they would like to stay and, when consumers register, the app puts the card on file, much like the app of a big hotel chain. It’s seamless,” Solomon said, noting he thinks that will eventually become the dominant way travelers book suites.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the quick-service restaurant (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.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2020

Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. Travel platforms are enabling more online bookings than ever, and 83 percent of U.S. Merchants Need To Rethink Booking.

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The top banks have the funds, technology, and development teams to make this happen. Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small Business Innovation. reached 31.7

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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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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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JUNE 22, 2016

From hackathons to startup pitches, startup accelerators and innovation labs, there are no shortage of ideas – and, it seems, the money to keep a steady stream of them flowing. McLaughlin shared that framework with the assembled crowd at the “ Matchmakers” book launch in New York last week. McLaughlin said.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Braun faces charges of accounting fraud and market manipulation designed to artificially inflate the financial technology company’s balance sheet to make it look more appealing to investors and customers. Airbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO Amid Bookings Rebound. Verizon Debuts Visa Credit Card With Rewards.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The funding is being earmarked to launch credit cards-as-a-service in the U.S. as well as 21 European Union (EU) countries — sent a letter to antitrust regulators asking that they throw the book at Google as fast as possible. Report: Strategic Payment Investments Give FIs, FinTechs Innovative Payment Options. and Canada.

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While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s been a rough road for card-linked offers. In the latest episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist and author of “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” explore the pitfalls of card-linked offers and how one matchmaker is using the power of gifting to overcome them.

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JUNE 4, 2020

” Continuing Innovation. With a cautiously optimistic outlook, corporate travel technology firms continue to press forward to introduce new tools for businesses in preparation for returning T&E spend. For CWT, that means a recently-announced partnership with corporate travel expense management FinTech SAP Concur.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

28) that it is rolling out GantCoinSM, a payment solution that lets business travelers pay for hotel reservations made via Concur Travel , phone or email with a virtual card. The solution needs only a corporate card to generate a virtual card for payment — not a separate bank account devoted to virtual payments, the company explained.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them. That things came to a boil in 2020 is a matter for the financial history books at this point. Fishing For BaaS. Now, the trick is to make smart choices with urgency because cybercrooks never sleep.

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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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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. Find the experts, and leverage all you can in terms of their technology, innovation and reach,” he recommended.

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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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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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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. billion of the 6.93

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JULY 7, 2020

Speaking with PYMNTS, PayParc Global Solutions Founder Taylan Taspinar discussed the sector’s dire need to upgrade its B2B payments strategy after a yearslong lag in innovation — and why not just data, but industry-specific data, is essential to combatting friction. A World Of Pain Points. ” The Journey Ahead. ”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

For instance, 95 percent of companies surveyed permit out-of-policy travel booking, which can lead to a lack of transparency in how employees are spending company money. There are simple technologies that can address these issues, he added. “That’s one of the big awakenings for a number of readers of the study.”

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JUNE 13, 2019

Indian ride-hailing startup Ola , which is backed by SoftBank Group, is planning to build a technology center in Silicon Valley — right near rival Uber. Hyundai will proactively respond to market changes and persistently innovate to deliver greater value to our customers.”. Rewards can be used for Ola rides, flights and hotel bookings.

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MAY 3, 2019

To provide consumers with less expensive and more flexible booking options, eCommerce innovators are taking new approaches to hotel reservations. While the technology could allow consumers to save money on their trips, the platform isn’t all about the cost savings. For payments, the site accepts credit cards and PayPal.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Patent and Trademark Office, which describe the use of blockchain technology to enable high-volume B2B transactions and enable digital signatures on individual payments. will drive finance departments to find ways to process and accept payments via means other than traditional card processors with high fees.

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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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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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MARCH 5, 2019

Perrin-Largilliere pointed to her own firm’s Book with Confidence guarantee, wherein HomeAway offers comprehensive payment protection tied to the transaction. As travel bookings migrate to the mobile device, Perrin-Largilliere said HomeAway has “re-engineered the way we manage payments – not just from a technical standpoint.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Kaiser told Webster that POS financing may prove especially appealing in “less developed countries, where there’s not as much availability of credit or credit cards, [and] where there are more cash transactions. Kaiser explained that the first payment is charged when the trip is booked, and “the airline will receive its funds.

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