PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Big Tech Battle of Market Caps : Amazon’s market cap has hit a significant milestone. With a new high of $900 a share, the company’s recent market cap stood at more than $430 billion. That’s nearly twice the market cap of Walmart and has three times the revenue of that stalwart eCommerce player. The lesson here?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In addition to traditional payment methods such as credit and debit cards, Klarna offers buy now, pay later options. Last month, the FinTech introduced a “ Wish Lis t ” to up its social game by connecting with lists curated by brands, influencers and shopping experts and share them with family.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The tech giant's first 5G-enabled smartphone will be a latecomer in China, as local brands have been offering their own versions ready to use on the country's established 5G internet networks. That said, Apple has been later to the game than some rivals, including Samsung, which already boasts multiple 5G-capable devices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. It started with an announcement that a California Kroger subsidiary — Foods Co — would stop accepting Visa credit cards (but not debit cards) at 21 of its grocery stores and five of its gas stations, effective Aug.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Williams started The Sock Spot website and started to reach out to brands. Now, he has more than a dozen brands with access to many different types of socks. It sits at the Powell/Market Street Bart entrance of the mall’s concourse level. The Market. The Machine.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

In the March mPOS Tracker , PYMNTS explores the new mPOS uptake, as well as how mPOS providers are launching solutions into new markets, boosting their presence where they already operate and partnering to expand their reaches. Around the mPOS World.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Brands and marketplaces now make it simple to auto-refill all sorts of products such as pet food and paper towels. Mastercard: Inside The Samsung Pay ‘Super Card’. One of the most recent developments in this space was the announcement of the Samsung Pay Card , which is powered by Curve and Mastercard technology.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Android Pay launched in the US a few days ago, and Samsung Pay is expected to be available there soon as well. Should a bank just stick with Apple Pay or enable their cards with all the “pays”? Should they consider alternative options, such as their own HCE-based, or depending on the market, even SIM-based NFC solutions?

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2016

That’s evident by its promotion for Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay and Visa Wallet on its digital wallet page showing that the bank wants to promote whatever digital payment option the consumer wants to use. What BoA has also been focused on is promoting Samsung Pay and Android Pay as a way to make contactless ATM withdrawals.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. In comparison to a market like China’s, it’s glacial. trillion — compared to the $112 billion market in the U.S., It hasn’t been easy. percent to be exact).

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BankBazaar

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Great deals on cards and loans! Additional Reading: Your Guide To The Ultimate Shopping Credit Cards. Yes, we’ve got these amazing Credit Card deals for you , with instant online approval wherein you complete all your application-related requirements via a video call with a bank agent. It’s the festive season! Excited much?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Card volume for on-demand, live-streamed and game or software content increased by 35 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to a First Data SpendTrend report. Regular retail experienced just 14 percent growth year-over-year, suggesting on-demand is fast emerging as a developing segment for digital commerce brands.

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NCR

DECEMBER 30, 2015

And while many developed countries are heading towards stagnation as the market becomes saturated, this is not the case in India, where the arrival of more affordable devices and a growing middle class are contributing to the continued rise. A booming market. ” What the future holds.

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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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William Mills

AUGUST 11, 2016

They discuss key insights from their article in the 2016 Bankers as Buyers Report titled, “The Payoff of Bank-Branded Mobile Wallets With Tender Reciprocity.” Interview Topic: The Payoff of Bank-Branded Mobile Wallets with Tender Reciprocity. ” For the full transcript of the interview, see below. McWilliams.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2016

It used to be about what could be thought of as ‘dumb terminals,’” said the investor, with enough of a fragmented market to give rise to a successful rollup strategy, as smaller firms became fodder for larger ones. But ease of use and what Rich termed a “plug-and-play” method of adoption become important. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, stating the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. In developed markets, 4G will move to 5G with 15 percent of mobile phones connected, and to 5G five years from now.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, starting the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. In developed markets, 4G will move to 5G with 15 percent of mobile phones connected, and to 5G five years from now.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

In launching its new ePort Interactive products and services, USA Technologies is seeking to enable what Lawlor describes as “the next generation of retailing” for unattended retail markets, including vending, kiosk and commercial laundry, among others. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

Or, as Dunkin’ Brands CEO David Hoffman put it during the company’s Q2 post-earnings conference call : “Our agreement with CARDFREE enables us to control our own destiny with the DD mobile app and to accelerate important digital initiatives, such as one-to-one marketing, catering, delivery and group ordering, just to name a few.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

This is the percentage of all Merchant Link orders that are for EMV terminals — a transition, said Carcillo, that “has really taken off in the market segments we serve, in retail and hospitality.”. Card issuers have started to offer cards that only work in contactless scenarios, which will also drive contactless payments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

The most well-known use case typically takes place within app stores, think Google Play, where users can make in-app game purchases or buy movies or music, without having to go through the painstaking process of entering payment card details on their phone. market in particular has been a little late to the carrier billing party.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay released its six-month report card , with some pretty interesting stats: ubiquity at all 4,600+ stores, high usage, high repeat usage, rave reviews from their users and a growing crop of brand evangelists that, Walmart Pay execs say, have become an effective recruiting engine. Woot, woot! The workhorse?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

In order to stay relevant to our customers, the brand has evolved the game over the years while keeping the concept the same,” McDonald’s archivist Mike Bullington told Business Insider. Their system offers credit card processing, gift card capabilities, loyalty program integration and report and data functions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

As more banks, industries, companies and even retail brands take on and use blockchain technology in their business, there are the enhanced and innate elements of efficiency and security. “A Blockchain also has the potential to open up markets to new investors and greatly increase transaction volumes due to decreased friction.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Many of these machines are outfitted with electronic payments and not only the traditional debit and credit cards” but also alternative forms of payments, from Apple Pay to Samsung Pay, said Lawlor. Mobile purchases is one on the consumer side, he said, and mobile marketing is among the “next big thing[s]” on the corporate side.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

And this isn’t a small or niche subset of consumers – according to the latest edition of the Digital Consumer Report , a PYMNTS/ Samsung Pay collaboration, 58 percent of consumers reported engaging in contextual commerce. And brands and technologists have to do a lot of work to build trust in these emerging forms, they noted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

” When Android Pay launched , it had the backing of all the major card brands, along with a handful of issuers, and it used NFC technology to enable payments in-store. is a particularly important market given the high contactless penetration. is a particularly important market given the high contactless penetration.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

An easy way to use the credit card or debit card, without actually carrying the cards around? Some new reports on the market point to an answer, but it’s not a particularly satisfying one. Even a favored bank-branded technology might supplement these choices rather than replace them. So why is it still an outlier?

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NCR

DECEMBER 16, 2016

billion Mastercard-branded cards in use around the world, enabling more than $4 trillion of payments in 150 currencies every year. Mastercard is one of the first brands to sign up to OnStar Go , the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform. There are more than 1.9 ” Expanding into wearables.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The latest CyberSource annual report on online fraud tells the tale of card-not-present fraud not just going down, but going down by a whole big bunch – across all channels. The experience is reported to offer a branded merchant frame, once swiped, that lets purchases happen inside of the Snapchat app. Online Fraud.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

With VocaLink added to its network assets, Mastercard has a way to spread its payments wings digitally, including enabling direct debit transactions, becoming the world’s interoperable faster payments and threading the regulatory needle in a market where interchange has been forced to pretty close to zero. The problem reported: speed.

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NCR

JULY 11, 2016

This is true in both developed and emerging markets – and in fact, the most successful P2P services so far have been those in places such as Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where they have become an integral part of the financial landscape. A primary option. Opportunities for banks.

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NCR

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The service works with any Apple or Android device, at any checkout lane, and with any major credit, debit, pre-paid or Walmart gift card. The fact that 22 million consumers already use the Wal-Mart app every month means it has a potential head start in this key market. As we all know, that market is already crowded.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an enterprise-grade smartphone that comes pre-installed with Visa’s Tap to Phone app. The partnership with Samsung is the first time the Tap to Phone software has been integrated into a device. The mPOS landscape got more interesting today (Jan.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Company Description: The UK-based financial services company runs sites such as Compare the Market, lesfurets.com, and Beagle Street, which let people compare insurance products. Company Description: NuCom is a German company with a portfolio of consumer and lifestyle brands including eharmony, Parship, Flaconi, and Amoreli.

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