PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2020

The decision to impose hold times followed a report that revealed that from mid-March until the end of April, credit card holders contested three times as many purchases as they did before the pandemic, according to Aite Group, a Boston-based financial services industry research company, as reported by WSJ.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A group of investors led by global financial investment giant Warburg Pincus announced on Wednesday (Sept. 23) that they have closed on a deal with the Boston-based software and eCommerce company for $155 million in a Series E round of financing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

It’s a demographic that, Berger said, is always shopping – representing a lucrative opportunity for retailers who want people to pull out their credit cards to buy things they want, but don’t necessarily need. “These are not folks who only shop seasonally – they tend to shop opportunistically.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

President Daniel Levy said, according to the outlet, “We have come to terms with Authentic Brands Group, Barneys’ new owner, to keep the Madison Avenue store open in a smaller footprint for the next 12 months while we continue to explore a longer-term solution.”. The release also noted that “gift cards may be redeemed until Nov.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Engel, Research Professor, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Mass. Hall, Executive Vice President, PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, Pa. Hughes, Senior Vice President of Card Marketing, Discover Financial Services, Deerfield, Ill. Tim Chen, Chief Executive Officer, NerdWallet, San Francisco, Calif. Kathleen C.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

In investment news, Boston-based Flipside Crypto notched $3.4 And Denmark’s Danske Bank is removing options for customers to purchase financial instruments that are tied to the price of digital currencies, CoinDesk reported – although the bank’s customers will still be able to buy cryptocurrencies using their credit cards. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

In a press release , MineralTree said the investment round was led by Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. MineralTree, an accounts payable and payment automation company, announced Wednesday (March 27) it closed a $50 million growth equity investment fundraising round. 406 Ventures and Eight Roads Ventures.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here, a fraudster obtains a legitimate user’s details to take over their online accounts, enabling the theft of money or a credit card, according to Marianne Crowe, vice president in the Secure Payments Innovation and Research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Education as an anti-fraud tool.

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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). Last year, at the Silicon Valley Super Bowl tech as a group went all out — and Visa led the charge.

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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). Last year, at the Silicon Valley Super Bowl tech as a group went all out — and Visa led the charge.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

with a platform called JustRide, which is a cloud-based collection of railways, and we launched in Boston with the city’s commuter rail service,” Donovan said. The architecture of our offering allows us to deploy very quickly and to a diverse group of customers.”. In 2012, we moved beyond the U.K. Something for everyone. “I

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2016

Generally speaking, withdrawal limits are not set at the ATM and are instead the purview of card-issuing organizations. Those massive withdrawals do not represent illegal activity, according to bank officials, but they do raise red flags in a regulatory environment where large cash transfers are often considered, at least, a reason for alarm.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

BIN attacks rely on combining a single, valid card number and a piece of number-generating software to create many potential card numbers. The attack relies on probing card-authorization systems to see which ones are valid numbers. And it all moves very quickly.”. The attacks, Gerber noted, are going to keep on coming.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Etsy is hardly alone: eCommerce is experiencing year-over-year growth of 14 percent, according to the Payments Powering Platforms Tracker , and merchants looking to capitalize on this rise must accept the preferred payment methods of their customers, which include everything from credit cards to PayPal to Venmo and everything outside and in between.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Data from Boston Consulting Group and AliResearch projects that consumers younger than age 35 will drive 65 percent of consumption growth in China through 2020. And BMI Research shows that while mortgages still comprise a majority of Chinese household debt, credit card and consumer loans have already grown from 4.6

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

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. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay. Android Pay is not yet an option.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Brex Co-Founder and Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras said in a press release , “Even before customers think about credit cards, they need a place to store their business capital. Cyberattacks hit financial services firms 300 times more often than firms in other industries per the Boston Consulting Group.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

But Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says generative AI serves a fundamentally different purpose than predictive AI, which is the powerful tool with which many financial institutions are already familiar. This can include images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. ZP Group incorporates three units: a government cybersecurity contractor, a human capital and staffing service and a security advisory firm.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

While on the other side of the coin, there are millennials who like to go out in groups, with budgets that may be more restricted but with time to go out more frequently. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S. BB: We see it as very complementary to OpenTable.

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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 23, 2019

This is a market that Boston-based ButcherBox is catering to by delivering grass-fed, grass-finished meat and other humanely raised, sustainably sourced meat and seafood directly to customers’ doors on a monthly basis. will reach 56.8 pounds per capita this year, and pork consumption will hit 51 pounds per capita.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. The goal is to improve and up on-demand interactions to help answer account and card questions. At least that response only took a few seconds to get.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

HeroPay, which bills itself as a group of “payment nerds who worry about all things payments so that you don’t have to,” offers a free account to any business or merchant who wants to browse its network of “top-tier processors” and shop for the best, most affordable payments processing option for their business. Payments are complex.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

For businesses with between 20 and 99 employees, credit cards remain their top financing source, while bank loans are more commonly reserved for firms with between 100 and 500 employees. Personal loans from family and friends also remain popular for this group.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Banks and card providers have been devoting a lot of attention recently to Asian markets, and it’s not hard to see why. Card providers have also been promoting the use of new solutions. With more than 1.3 billion potential customers in China alone, and a similar number in India, the opportunities for banks are immense.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The financial industry has paid $321 billion in fines just through the end of last year, as estimated by Boston Consulting Group. Multi-dimensional smart agents can also be created to monitor, for example, card activity across specific merchants.

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

The Department of Transportation will use the back-end support of Cubic Transportation and, in collaboration with Passport, will change the EASY Card revenue management system to allow travelers to buy fares using contactless, check balances on the cards, view account history and manage accounts through a new app.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Nike North America Media Relations Director Josh Benedek told Front Office Sports that the company took the “heavy lifting” out of shopping with its checkout experience: “All your preferences, all your credit card payments, everything like that is already set up on your phone. It makes that purchasing much easier.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

Existing backers Madrona Venture Group and Amplify Partners also participated, the firm said. Artificial intelligence lands on this week’s B2B venture capital roundup again as 6 River Systems, based in Boston, announced $25 million in Series B funding. This week, the company announced $10.3 Logistics. 6 River Systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The PYMNTS data supporting the permanence of this shift has remained largely consistent for every one of the 16 studies we have done and across geographies and demographic groups. Contactless cards are regarded as decision-drivers for shopping in a physical store 7.5 And the Pays still haven’t. 25-31, 2020.

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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. Patrick’s Day-related purchases as a whole. According to WalletHub , consumers will spend a collective $4.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

. “Thailand is the ninth country in 10 markets globally with which we have established our mobile payment presence, and the third country in Asia-Pacific apart from Singapore and Australia,” said Elle Kim, vice-president for the payment business group at Samsung Electronics. Google has announced that many more Wear 2.0

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

The business cards have all been exhausted, and the hearty salutations give way to weary nods of (yet again) recognition. With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. Til next year — perhaps by then spring will finally come to Boston. In one panel discussion, David S.

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