PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Google is planning to launch consumer checking accounts next year in partnership with Citigroup and Stanford University, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday (Nov. The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. “Our It may be the slightly longer path, but it’s more sustainable.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

H&M Home and Google have announced a holiday partnership, according to reports. The apparel, home design and decoration company has created a gift guide for the holiday season with Google, using Google Assistant voice technology. The closure will be completed by June of 2019 and will impact about 80 employees.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To counter fraud as the holiday season approaches, Best Buy , Target and Walmart made changes to their gift card programs. With the new policies, changes include lowering the transaction limits on the sale of store-branded gift cards. They also come amid an initiative to take on fraudsters that has run for a year. “By

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that fraudsters are increasingly requesting to be paid with gift cards, with some even asking for certain brands such as Google Play and iTunes gift cards. Google Play cards were not reported in significant numbers until this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This edition includes news about Facebook’s new payments push, Amazon’s new robotics plan and why Google is working more closely with financial institutions. Goldman Denies Discriminatory Apple Card Practices, Says It Will Reassess Limits. Google Dives Into DDAs. Google’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable,” Karen Webster wrote about six months into the great bot binge of the extreme excitement gunning up in the ecosystem around them.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

While the card networks have greatly benefited by the global boom in e-commerce, they are confronted with the corresponding growth in digital advertising. This will increasingly lead them to seek out data-sharing deals like Mastercard's reported arrangement with Google, which could prove vital to the networks' future survival.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Cashplus is upgrading its mobile app with the Google maps spend tracking feature, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. The Spending Insights tool uses data from Google Maps to find out where and when a payment was made. Transactions are easy to spot and show identifying information like brand logos.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news, Americans are struggling as savings accounts run dry, and several states are preparing their own antitrust probe into Google. State AGs To Press Own Case Against Google. Several states are moving forward with their own antitrust probe into Google and could decide to join the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Bank of America is adding mobile wallet functionality to its suite of commercial card products, the bank said Wednesday (Sept. According to Bank of America, mobile wallets can enhance payment security by tokenizing account numbers, effectively using a physical commercial card to generate a virtual card for a particular purchase.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Google officially introduced Google Home on Tuesday, the search giant’s answer to Amazon’s Echo and other smart home devices. Google Home will retail for $129 and will be available in stores on Nov. Also on Tuesday, Google unveiled its latest smartphones, the five-inch Pixel that will retail at $649 and the 5.5-inch

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

To provide men’s personal care items that feel like premium brands at accessible price points, eCommerce innovators are building product lines through the direct-to-consumer (DTC) model. Founder Matt Mullenax was inspired to start the brand after cutting his teeth in the DTC world as an early employee at Bonobos.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To speed up shopping trips for its customers, 7-Eleven now takes Google Pay and Apple Pay at most of its U.S. They’re nearly universally recognizable as the brand behind the twin cultural forces of the Slurpee and the Big Gulp. Frictionless experiences are the future, and digital payments are key to such experiences.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Mobile Cards: Make or Break? One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Twelve years ago, LendingClub Founder Renaud Laplanche built a business to help consumers manage the $800 million in outstanding credit card debt. The Upgrade Card is tied to a line of credit that can be used everywhere that Visa cards are accepted. Interest rates on the Upgrade Card range from 6.49 The Upgrade Card.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

When it comes to finding information, consumers “Google” it. Though the eCommerce giant has yet to turn its name into a verb, that’s how customers are treating it, with 55 percent turning to Amazon — not Google — as their first shopping search resource. However, Google’s not letting those shoppers go easily.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

According to security researchers from PhishLabs , Google Play has a bit of a phishing problem. A problem in the sense that the research company claims that, since the start of the year, it has found 11 apps that are hosted on Google Play created by hackers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Payments company Stripe is rolling out a new solution that lets businesses create and issue their own credit and debit cards, the company announced on Thursday (July 26). In a press release, Stripe announced the launch of Stripe Issuing, its service that enables companies to create their own cards, both physical and virtual, via an API call.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Payday loans and the advertising of some lending products just got a lot less Google-friendly. Google announced that it has updated its AdWords policy to effectively ban advertisers from marketing a number of lending products starting July 13. credit cards).” credit cards).”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. The company is also working with issuers, including Citi and Fifth Third Bank, to convert cards on file into tokens.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

This marks a change for Target — a retailer that had, up to this point, enabled mobile pay only for its own mobile wallet app and the Target-branded REDcard linked to it. That is consistent with what we have seen around the world when it comes to contactless card adoption,” Sanford said.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Google Pay has partnered with India-based gift card solutions provider Qwikcilver to issue real-time virtual gift cards from more than 150 online and offline brands, across 1500 cities in India.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The workers are coming from around the globe, yet Lee says the stiffest competition is from firms in the tech realm, including Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Google. The bank’s tech needs range from new products such as the Apple Card to its growing dependency on cloud infrastructure. Apple Card?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Chevron updated its branded mobile applications to offer consumers access to Venmo to pay for fuel and car washes at the pump from their mobile devices,” said Bill Miner, Chevron’s general manager of Americas Marketing Sales & Services. “The The rewards were announced for the payment company’s Mastercard debit card at certain retailers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

The IAB said effects are being felt across ad-supported websites, “as well as companies that provide technical infrastructure to support selling ads” such as network services, brand safety and attribution services. The wild card here is the amount of small businesses that feed the revenue of ad words and social platforms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Merchants may be able to deliver the best experiences to their customers through their own apps, but not all customers want to take up hundreds of megabytes on their phones — unless they really love the brand. Gift Card Popularity. Consumers want gift cards,” Gilbert said. Everyday Occasions. Gilbert said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Vast numbers of consumers are happy to ask Alexa, Siri or the Google Assistant to play a song, find a recipe or dim the lights in their smart homes. percent of respondents) and payment methods that don’t require touching a card reader (58.6 Last year, PYMNTS’ How We Will Pay Survey found that while an increasing share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Riders with NFC-enabled mobile phones will be able to download the EASY Card, and for those without NFC-enabled phones, the app will provide a display-generated ticket and one with a bar code.

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The Financial Brand

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Targeting competitors' key search terms helped tech giant push its new financial card into banking consumers' view, planting a big flag. The post Google Search Takeover Helped Launch Apple Card Marketing Drive appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Shoppers can start a purchase in stores by selecting the card icon in the Afterpay mobile program, which activates the Afterpay card that can be used for purchases via Google Pay or Apple Pay. There are real opportunities for those brands that deeply understand their consumer.”. And there's a huge opportunity.

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The Financial Brand

JULY 20, 2021

A battle of titans is building between Apple and Google over the future of banking. The post Why Apple Pay + Buy Now Pay Later Will Drive Banks to Google Plex appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights. At stake are data and checking account revenue.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The stage is being set, then, for consumers to pivot away from legacy banking toward trusted brands that, increasingly, are building out financial services. The company’s API, he said, enables users to create an own-branded debit card (not a co-branded one) into their apps. You can reward people in non-cash ways.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Helping brands launch their DTC and subscription businesses with the flexibility to sell how their customers want to buy – and fast – is the future of digital commerce.”. Startup brands are taking advantage, and established players are catching up. Payments Drive Digital Experiences for Brands (and Consumers). is investing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

With Burberry launching a social experience at its brick-and-mortar Shenzhen store and social platforms like Facebook pushing their commerce capabilities, new startups are popping up and established brands are catching up to capture this newest area of the digital shift. Brands and Mastercard. 4) with Tuli. On Tuesday (Aug. ”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

It is also, according to reports, a favored new method by thieves, who will access someone else’s credit card information, use it to create a Fortnite account and then buy V-bucks, the game’s currency. Capital One ’s further reprots domestic card loans increased 8 percent or $5.8 Credit card loans increased 5 percent to $116.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. Card issuers have been slow to release contactless cards due to limited acceptance at the point of sale. But EMV chip cards are more secure than magnetic stripe transactions, and newer versions of contactless cards use EMV.

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