PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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. Of that $10 billion, Apple Card?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Loading funds onto a prepaid card that opens the turnstile once scanned, swiped or inserted works terrifically well – until the customer forgets to check the balance on his transit pass, and finds himself locked out at the turnstile. And, of course, that moment never occurs on a day when one is early. cities in the next few years.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The most effective contrarians, of course, are those whose countervailing opinions are rooted in an intellectually honest framework or set of hypotheses that offer credible support for looking at things through a different lens. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. have been settled.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Just in case you needed even more of a reason to want the Pats to win!).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Just in case you needed even more of a reason to want the Pats to win!).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

The question is what happens if loans go sour — which means, of course, that banks get dinged if they do. Roughly 37 percent of SMB owners are tapping into their personal funds and 26 percent are using personal credit cards, which indicates that there’s a gap that could be filled by other credit sources.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

There’s credit to be added to said ticket, of course, leaving little time to find the appropriate terminal and make a payment — often resulting in them rushing around only to arrive as their trains or buses roll by. In 2012, we moved beyond the U.K. Something for everyone. “I That’s really the benefit our solution and our platform offers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

This once-free social networking site, over the course of the 11 years it existed, assembled millions of people who freely shared their experiences with each other and the entirety of the web. The citizens of Boston didn’t need a government report to tell them what was wrong, because taxi service in Boston was pretty pathetic.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was variety of course- but within limits. Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Donuts used to be one of the more standard staples of the American “balanced” breakfast.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

Part of the settlement is that, now, however, drivers can ask passengers for tips (in cash, of course) and hang signs in their cars stating that the fares do not include tips. In some cities like Boston, there is a $15 minimum – so an $8 or $9 taxi ride ends up being 40 percent more. Then, of course, there’s the issue of surge pricing.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. View credit card balances, transaction history. Stop payment requests.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. View credit card balances, transaction history. Stop payment requests.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. Like many small businesses (SMBs), he doesn’t accept cards. Ubiquity, of course, is payments nirvana. Their own experiences, of course (good and bad), are the final judge and jury.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The “Pays” — and Apple Pay as the granddaddy of all of the mobile contactless wallets — didn’t solve a problem at the physical point of sale when it launched in 2014, since cards worked just fine. Contactless cards are regarded as decision-drivers for shopping in a physical store 7.5 Of course, these are on Android phones, too.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 1, 2019

Aside from credit cards, I don't get much attention from bankers or financial advisors. A guess, of course. years duration based on FHLB Boston's spot rates at the time of printing. At least somebody noticed. Noticed that I might be a valuable checking account customer. But one based on my experience and my own checking volume.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Why do mobile payment users choose another method if they have taken the trouble to load their card data? There is a difference in the choice of debit or credit card as a funding source among users. Meanwhile, only 44 percent of Apple Pay users prefer to use a debit card as a funding source and 50 percent use a credit card.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). And these merchants and retailers are recognizing that, over the course of the next two to three years, that $400 billion is going to inflate to something like $1.2 Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas. trillion.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies. Payment-enabled, of course.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. At NFL events and shops, there will be an MVP checkout lane that encourages cashless payment, whether it’s through a card or a wearable. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth! It’s a tall order.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. These ever-present wild cards can tip the balance of an ecosystem one way or the other — sometimes by working quietly under the surface for long periods of time to fortify its health and keep the balance intact. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of the experiment, through a series of 1,000 daily tasks, the researchers changed how the white and green dots were presented to the monkeys. Of course, we’ve seen evidence of this hard-wired behavior play out in our own payments and commerce stomping grounds over the years. Locking and unlocking the front door.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

. – beach trips, outdoor cooking, waterparks and, of course, baseball. Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). One is making the merchant payments experiences smoother, so that customers at the concession stand can swipe their cards or tap their phones without issue at any stadium.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2016

And while all of those traditions are of course quite lovely, what makes Festivus really shine and stand out is, of course, the airing of grievances. We take our weather very seriously in Boston.”. That is more or less par for the course for the CFPB. After all, who wants an analog solution like a card in a digital world?

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 23, 2017

Payments Replatforming – for the most impressive project to improve payments back office, e.g. payment services hub implementation or cards replatforming. We will be announcing all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). Of course, we don’t really expect or even want gifts for our ninth anniversary. and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions. True in 2009.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Which means the inefficient, rush-hour obstacle course that stands between commuters getting their tickets and catching their trains needs to have far fewer obstacles. Instead, digital payments can make the entire experience as easy as waving a phone or tapping a card. Building A Better Future For Transport.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

billion at the nation’s spate of celebrations and official parades, like Boston’s historically drunk parade through Southie or Chicago’s ethnically ambiguous act of dying its rivers green for a few hours. There are, of course, worse decisions made on St. Patrick’s Day-related purchases as a whole.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. may be fertile ground for spending, but flexibility is key across cash, cards and even checks. . Beware the Ides of March, warned Shakespeare.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. may be fertile ground for spending, but flexibility is key across cash, cards and even checks. . Beware the Ides of March, warned Shakespeare.

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Payments Innovation Data Course 102

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

At launch, to use the service, customers must use a Visa or Mastercard issued by one of the nation’s six largest banks: Bangkok Bank, KTC Credit Card, Citibank, Siam Commercial Bank, Kasikornbank and Krungsri Consumer. According to new published data from Boston Retail Partners, Apple Pay has garnered the largest percentage of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Her proposed course of action is likely to deliver anything but more uncertainty. Banking customers who use Wells Fargo debit or credit cards can connect through the as-yet-to-be-debuted mobile wallet to work with NFC terminals globally.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, Bolus joined host Karen Webster to discuss how Boston-based VocoLife is matching these two sides together through the use of curation and dynamic rewards. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S. 9 Park, which is certainly one of the best restaurants here in Boston.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is, of course, a mere four years after voice-activated devices were officially introduced by Amazon and Alexa through the Echo device. The Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, by contrast, gets me far less excited, even though I use it a lot. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

What CVS says is unique about CVS Pay (clearly not the name) is that it enables HSA and other co-pay information to be stored in the app so that the proper amount is charged to the user’s registered card at checkout. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Peace Among Merchants and Card Networks. Seriously a Sizzle!

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online.

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