PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This week, Stripe introduced banking services, we get a glimpse of the EU's upcoming Digital Services Act and PYMNTS' data reveals online purchases ruled Black Friday. Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The Weekender can catch you up.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. Through collaborations, Samsung Pay launched a rewards program, the first mobile payments platform to do so, the company said. Contactless mobile payments are growing worldwide, but the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

23) that they have entered a strategic partnership to launch Visa Commercial Pay, billed as a suite of B2B payment solutions for enterprises making the shift to digital transactions, and, specifically, virtual cards — and away from paper-based manual processes. She said 89 percent of B2B buyers are making more online purchases than last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

That influx of users new to digital paths and processes has created pressure in the market for brands to leverage video content. After all, many consumers have learned that it’s more convenient to have groceries delivered or conduct 80 to 90 percent of their banking transactions online or via mobile.

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PopularBank

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Costs of paying by mail vs. online and mobile banking. The second way we analyze fraud is by the size of its impact, which comes in many forms, including brand damage or financial loss. On the other hand, mobile and online bill pay from Popular Bank is free and available 24/7. Fraud can be analyzed two ways.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) in mobile food ordering: tantalizing. That’s a silly simplification of the very serious matter of what AI is doing for the restaurant sector, among others, as online ordering becomes a way of life and not just a lockdown relic. Advanced AI Makes Systems Smarter. Catering to Individual Tastes at Scale.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Citi has rolled out its new Citi Fleet Card in Europe and the United Kingdom, with a new solution that brings together a contactless-enabled card with a mobile program. Salon division was among the first Citi customers to go online with the offering, according to a Thursday (Dec. Kao EMEA's U.K. 17) announcement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

As retailers scramble to capture the digital shift, it’s easy for some overlooked details, such as unanswered customer complaints, to harm their brands. To prevent this, a new category is emerging around the area of online reputation management , with a luxury automaker among the latest brands to embrace the technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

based in Sao Paulo, inadvertently left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers’ personal and payment-related information publicly available online. The leaked information also includes online payment account details with access for nearly 40,000 wirecard.com.br The Brazil cosmetics company that bought Avon Products Inc. Natura & Co.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A new Mastercard initiative aims to improve online transaction clarity so that customers can know exactly who they purchased from, according to a press release Tuesday (Sept. The release said doing so is a way to both clear up confusion for customers and also to allow brands a way to establish more presence.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Global branded payments provider Blackhawk has debuted a new service allowing companies to outsource gift card and eGift program management, according to a news release Tuesday (Sept. The solution works for both companies with existing gift card programs and those looking to start one, the press release said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Verizon is partnering with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card in the first half of this year, they said on Thursday (Jan. T-Mobile recently started providing banking services through T-Mobile Money, and Amazon and Uber now both offer their own branded cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

What are credit cards all about? Affirm was founded by Max Levchin in 2012 to help to remedy that merchant-consumer relationship by giving online shoppers an alternative to traditional credit cards and retailer-branded installment loans when shopping online. If you said, “Payments – duh,” you’re only half right.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. elections.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

And though this market presents brands with a large audience of potential customers, will digitally native millennials tune in to a shopping network? The mobile game show HQ Live Trivia, already counts up to two million participants per game. However, the platform does send the proceeds to the brand, less any money donated to charity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mastercard is partnering with CleverCards and Appreciate Group to offer gift cards directly to mobile wallets, Mastercard announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. The Select Digital Gift Card can be sent immediately by email, text or messaging app, and is available now as a last-minute Christmas present. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

Then, in the 1920s, gas stations such as Texaco took the idea and created a payment system closer to modern-day credit cards by offering customers pieces of paper that were the size of playing cards, setting a standard size for cards. These gas cards became more important during the oil embargo in the 1970s.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

To help diners make the best use of their mobile devices to order meals, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are tapping into mobile innovations. Technology that lets diners place their orders for pickup or delivery has become more common, and mobile devices are serving more restaurant functions than they have in the past.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

But it also has to be easy, fast and friction-free — now more than ever as a mass of consumers are moving their shopping, dining, working and leisure time online in response to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a skill that has become mission-critical for a lot of brands in the last few weeks, he said.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Consumers won’t be walking up to a cashier after standing in a checkout line to swipe a card when they visit a store. In a world where, as the Census says, 90 percent of retail sales still happen in the physical store, cards rule. Amazon, of course, owns Whole Foods and operates its own branded book stores and convenience stores.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 25, 2019

Citibank is hoping instant cash back rewards at checkout will encourage more card use and grow customer affinity with the brand. In July, the bank is enabling instant reward redemption capability at checkouts from both Android and iOS devices, for both online and physical store transactions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

consumers did at least some shopping online as of April 11 — a figure that had risen to 35.7 Consumers are also changing how they pay for their purchases, with a recent study finding that debit card spend was up 11.7 Debit cards are also being used to more quickly pay workers who need fast compensation now more than ever.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Plus, Canadian payment services company Interac is collaborating with Walmart Canada to expand debit card payment methods in store and online. Nigeria's Challenger Bank Kuda Raises $10M For Its Mobile-First Services. Its initiative is being operated by Xunxi in coordination with Alibaba’s Taobao online shopping site.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In the first two blogs in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance and Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences, we defined embedded finance and looked at the goals and strategies that firms should take at the outset of their modern embedded finance journey, as well as how and why firms should consider getting embedded banking.

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BankBazaar

AUGUST 29, 2022

So, we’ve picked the top Credit Cards that offer you freedom from fees (among other best-in-class benefits). If you’re looking for a lifetime-free Credit Card that’s high on rewards, your search ends here. YES Bank-BankBazaar FinBooster Credit Card. Best for: Online dining, grocery shopping and apparel.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Goldman Sachs said it doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple -branded credit card, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Nov. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? There are no fees with the card, and it integrates with Apple Pay and the iOS Wallet app.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Goldman Sachs said it doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple -branded credit card, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Nov. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? There are no fees with the card, and it integrates with Apple Pay and the iOS Wallet app.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2017

Online gift card marketplace Raise is announcing the launch of their new mobile app for iOS and Android. Raise’s marketplace is home to 300 retail partners and 3,000 brands and serves approximately 2 million customers looking for discounted digital gift cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The July 2020 Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker® done in collaboration with Kount shows that online orders are positively booming, but not all of that activity is good. New digital account openings have climbed in parallel with incidents of cybercrime as consumers have migrated to shopping primarily online during the COVID-19 pandemic. “New

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

JPMorgan Chase had the highest "buzz ranking" among banks in 2018, according to YouGov's Brand Index, an annual poll measuring which brands are considered the best by consumers. The Buzz […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Digital greeting card and gifting company Givingli has chosen Blackhawk Network to provide its app users with digital gift card selections. Givingli is an app that brings together greetings created by indie artists, customization functionalities, and gifts from brands, according to a Thursday (Jan. 14) announcement. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Mobile checkout is getting a boost from one of the largest retailers, further evidence of the technology’s continuous move deeper into the consumer mainstream. According to a report from Chain Store Age , “7-Eleven is introducing mobile checkout to select locations in New York City. Other Mobile Pushes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Gift cards may seem a logical answer. But not brand. What happens if you buy a card from a store that’s not exactly right for that person? Stuck is stuck, with a tight smile of thanks, and perhaps that card is left in a drawer. Stuck is stuck, with a tight smile of thanks, and perhaps that card is left in a drawer.

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