PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

In the April Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of mobile order-ahead and QSRs, including industry milestones, the entry of mobile order-ahead into new and unexpected spaces, and the security threats that prey on both users and providers. Developments from Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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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

MAY 1, 2018

Mastercard Introduces Remote Biometric Card Enrollment. As biometrics have begun to represent the next generation in securing payments, Mastercard has unveiled a technological advancement for its own biometric cards. Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub; Adds 2,000 New Tech Roles. Regulators in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2018

as well as the credit card numbers of approximately 209,000 people. The breached information included names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and, in some instances, drivers’ license numbers. These allegations state a viable claim for violation of the data security regulations,” Salinger wrote.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

In the latest Mobile Point-of-Sale Tracker , PYMNTS reports on how mPOS solutions are entering new markets around the globe, and how players in the space are working to make sure they also become more secure as they become increasingly popular. Around the mPOS World. Meanwhile, other players in the space are unveiling their first mPOS forays.

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PopularBank

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Considering some of the most common household bills, such as your mortgage or rent payments; credit card bills; home alarm system and security; auto insurance; auto loans; school loans; school or college tuition; cable and internet; mobile phone; health insurance; dental insurance; life insurance; utilities (e.g.,

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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. What better to get top-of-wallet relevance than embedding a contactless chip in your card?”

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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. The rivalry between cybercriminals and the fraud and security teams at banks, which are tasked with stopping their attacks, is incredibly lopsided.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

To find out how companies can choose the best solutions for their needs, PYMNTS recent caught up with Perry Kramer, vice president of Boston Retail Partners, to talk about the state of the full-service payments industry, the method his team uses when helping retailers find and adopt new payments solutions and what he sees coming down the pike.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS caught up with vendors from Boston and San Diego to explore how mPOS is becoming increasingly critical to winning business at Pride events. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World.

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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. Keeping The Meat Secure. will reach 56.8 We’re not talking about small packages. No system is perfect, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

billion, and also expanded internationally by purchasing Hong Kong-based investment app 8 Securities. Earlier this year, SoFi acquired payments firm Galileo for $1.2

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Tech and Finance

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Take Social Security as soon as you can — at 62 advises Steve Maersch, contradicting just about everyone in the retirement advice business. Maersch’s accountant yelled at him to start taking Social Security when he turned 62, and he did. From 62 through 69, Maersch collected $111,543 in Social Security.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While there, Orgel was most recently involved in the launch of the new Apple Card. As Boston-based Flywire’s President and COO, Orgel will oversee its global payment network, business operations, finance, legal, compliance, and corporate strategy and development. Flywire announced his appointment Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pedicab drivers in cities like Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., can now accept credit and debit card payments thanks to mPOS systems that allow them to take cards while on-the-go. To secure a portion of the quickly expanding mobile market, several players rolled out new mobile wallet solutions over the past month.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

but this growth was stymied because customers were required to preload credit cards into their apps to use the program. Many customers were hesitant to do so, fearing security breaches. All they had to do to earn points was scan a QR code on the Dunkin’ app or swipe a new physical membership card.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

With Brex’s arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards ( see definition below ). Here is a list of the 15 challenger business credit cards currently active in the United States. HQ: Boston. FunnelDash.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

With Brex’s arrival on the scene in 2018 followed by a meteoric rise to multi-unicorn status, there has been considerable attention to, and investment in business credit/charge cards ( see definition below ). Here is a list of the 15 challenger business credit cards currently active in the United States. HQ: Boston. FunnelDash.

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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. Kenna Security. PYMNTS breaks down the latest deals below. Cybersecurity. Back-Office. ServiceTitan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

After all, Boston managed to have a St. Each basis point shaves off roughly 11 cents of earnings per share, said Don Fandetti of Wells Fargo Securities. This behavior, he noted, is even observable among Amex’s corporate partners Delta and Hilton, who are looking for more favorable terms in the cards they are jointly rolling out.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2020

If he could have left the bag in a safe and secure place, he would have been “a happy customer,” he recalled in a PYMNTS interview. Consumers pay for their storage by credit card, and the hosts get paid out every Friday through Stripe , which Korbel said “is our third-party payment processor.”.

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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. So take all the security, administrative and efficiency problems that come with being cash only — but writ large.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Thousands descended upon T-Mobile Park stadium in Seattle on March 28 — the earliest opening day in Major League Baseball (MLB) history — to see their home team, the Mariners, take on last year’s World Series champions, the Boston Red Sox. At the concessions POS, there’s quicker transaction times.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2017

Jim Harper, CEO of Sonde Health in Boston, which is working on voice tests to monitor for postpartum depression, Parkinson’s and dementia, was quoted as saying: “We’re trying to make this ubiquitous and universal by engineering a technology that allows our software to operate on mobile phones and a range of other voice-enabled devices.”.

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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). As for security, the executive noted that P97 has been working with the card networks to create a transaction cloaked in tokenization, a vital line of defense — which, along with multi-factor and geolocation services, can blunt skimming efforts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The data did not reportedly include password information, Social Security numbers or financial information. 25) that it secured $1 billion in new funds from Japan’s SoftBank and China’s Alibaba affiliate Ant. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. That’s how Silicon Valley feels right now.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

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. All of these things, John noted, have security issues – and are terribly inefficient.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Imagine if, instead of getting a ‘flu fighter’ Band-Aid at the pharmacy when getting the vaccine, that person got an eGift card that is spendable at the pharmacy. According to a recent pilot study at a pediatric hematology clinic at Boston Medical Center, ridesharing services reduced the clinic's no-show rate by 8.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

22) before reportedly extending the service into Boston and New York, among other cities. Starbucks is bringing additional cities to its delivery network through a partnership with Uber Eats. The coffee chain was launching the expansion in San Francisco on Tuesday (Jan.

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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.). and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions. I’ve watched the credit card industry almost from the beginning, and we got in early. True in 2009.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Apple has long said that it ixnays anyone but Apple, and anything but Apple Pay, from accessing the NFC chip needed to make a contactless purchase at a terminal in a store because of security concerns. 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

JANUARY 15, 2018

For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something. They know they can do that anywhere they shop – the biggest of the big stores and the smallest of the mom-and-pop shops – and that their card will be accepted and will work. Locking and unlocking the front door.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

He pointed out that making this work smoothly requires a “slick” process that can take money from the customer in a very fleeting but steady and secure manner that requires minimal interaction. 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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