PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Swiss Bank UBS has announced that it has hired a new CEO of European Union operations, according to a report by Reuters. . arm of the company recently rolled out a new suite of commercial card products for its small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers. The bank appointed Christine Novakovic to the position.

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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

MARCH 10, 2020

In seed funding from well-known angel investors, corporate card FinTech Karbon Card has notched $2 million. Amit Jangir and Pei-fu Hsieh started Karbon Card last year. The firm offers an alternative to corporate cards. Hsieh said per reports, “Our vision is to empower all startups to achieve more through a Karbon Card.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With fine dining having taken a hit amid the pandemic, quick service and fast-casual restaurant gift cards are holding steady and even seeing a bit of growth, a new study by Paytronix finds. But quick-service chains saw a much more modest decline in gift card sales , which, after falling 3.6 27 and Sunday, Nov.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 9, 2018

Alliance Data Systems is developing a co-branded credit card and a private-label credit card program with Sweden-based Ikea’s U.S. furniture store operations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

A press release Monday (July 29) said Certify/ChromeRiver have reached a deal to acquire Emburse , a startup that provides virtual and physical commercial cards to manage employee spend as well as vendor payments. The company connects business managers to heightened visibility into employee spend and greater control over corporate expenses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

LINE Pay Corporation, operator of the popular payment app LINE Pay , announced that it is launching a LINE Pay co-brand credit card with Visa in Japan. The LINE Pay-Visa credit card is set to be released later this year, allowing consumers to make payments at merchants accepting Visa throughout Japan and around the world.

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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

MARCH 1, 2019

Supermarket firm Kroger has expanded its ban on accepting Visa credit cards, stating on Friday (March 1) that its Smith’s Food and Drug unit will stop offering that payment option beginning April 3. The move follows 2018 bans on the payment giant’s cards at Kroger Foods stores located in the state of California.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2018

People have been pulling up to a pump and using a card for a long time,” McCrary told Webster. “It The problem with loyalty to price is that it isn’t the same thing as loyalty to brand,” McCrary noted — and because gasoline is such a commodity good for consumers, it is hard to build brand loyalty.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

However, all three entities will operate separately. Although the three strong brands have been consolidated under one entity, they will continue to operate independently within their distinctive markets,” said Sureswipe MD Paul Kent, according to IT Web. “We We believe each provides a distinctive client solution.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Do FIs want to navigate card programs through that?”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The Apple Card is planning to offer 0 percent installment financing on iPhones by the end of 2019, 9to5Mac reported on Saturday (Dec. During Apple’s October earnings call , chief executive officer Tim Cook hinted that the Apple Card was planning 24-month 0 percent financing for iPhone purchases. Apple Card?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Chef’d , a the meal-kit operator, has halted its business operations after using up all its cash and failing to line up more of it. While it was able to ink deals with large food companies and diet plans, it was tough to run the operation — and thus the cash burn rate. They are definitely having growing pains,” he said. “It

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

It also looks at how banks, card networks and other expense management providers are competing to lure SMBs to their platforms over those of competing services. The bank will soon offer its SMB clients a co-branded corporate card for expense management. How Sysco Uses Credit Cards For More Robust Spend Management.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Users of the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) American Express (Amex) card aren’t happy with the changes coming to their cards, which give them one-third fewer reward points for almost every dollar they spend. The SPG Amex card had paid one Starpoint for each dollar spent on everyday items.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

is expanding payroll card operations across the African continent, a market that represents significant growth for the company. A recent press release said Mint has entered into an agreement to process Mastercard -branded payroll cards to disburse salaries to government employees. The Mint Corp.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

B2B FinTechs are once again showing off the versatility of the corporate card. While QuickBooks is piloting card payments on invoices powered by PayPal , Airwallex is readying the launch of its own corporate card — both physical and virtual — designed to enable cross-border payments. QuickBooks Adds Card Payment Support.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

has taken in $920 million in cash via arrangements with co-branded credit card firms. The hotel company is said to be one of the biggest co-brand partners of American Express. As it weathers a lull in travel because of COVID-19, Marriott International Inc. The hotel firm will receive $570 million from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

UBS Bank USA is rolling out a new suite of commercial card products for its small business (SMB) customers, according to Bankrate reports this week. ” According to Jubitz, UBS first looked at clients of the bank with personal UBS credit cards, and found that many of those customers were using that personal card for business expenses.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Adyen operates in more countries and currencies than competitor Stripe, and serves large, international operations, while Stripe works with startups and developers. What do they have in common? In terms of payments, they all use the services of Adyen, the Amsterdam-based payments giant. Adyen’s Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Playbook found that nearly 50 percent of the 2,000 CU members polled said they want their financial institutions (FIs) to focus on loyalty innovations, such as rewards offerings, in-app coupons and card-based cash back programs. The Member-CU Loyalty Disconnect . Likewise, 33.3

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

To bring higher-end products to its website, Walmart had courted brands like water-filtration company Katadyn for months. As part of its efforts, the retailer gave some brands the opportunity to determine how outside sellers on the its website price and display their products. These brands are objecting because of pricing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The virtual card offers a strong value proposition for corporates in the form of enhanced security and control over spend. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag. Top Trackers And Reports.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

credit card business, mobile-first company Jaja will pay an initial cash consideration of $671 million at current rates. The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. s Automobile Association and a Bank of Ireland branded card. (It To acquire the Bank of Ireland’s U.K.

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

About 2,800 of supermarket group’s staff will transfer to bank, which will sell Tesco-branded services Tesco has struck a deal to sell the bulk of its banking business to Barclays for £700m in a deal that will include the transfer of about 2,800 staff to the bank. Continue reading.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Loop Commerce , the operator of GiftNow, is announcing the launch of its GiftNow Card with Athleta , the Gap’s lifestyle apparel brand. GiftNow Cards are designed to allow shoppers in brick-and-mortar locations to make it easier to give the right gift, even if they aren’t sure what the recipient’s size or favored style might be.

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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? For brands, Gravy provides an alternative to traditional advertising such as pre-rolls and banners that can’t hold customers’ attention as long as shows like Gravy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. The company said payment card information — including card numbers — from visitors who went to the restaurants from Nov. 3, 2017, through Jan. 2 2018 may have been affected.

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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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APRIL 20, 2017

based hospitality group which owns and operates brands like Crown Royale and Holiday Inn, recently reported finding malware in 1,200 of its U.S. The malware looks to have been designed to steal guests’ payment card information. We continue to work with the payment card networks.”. “We franchise hotel locations.

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BankBazaar

JULY 26, 2023

BankBazaar posted a 51% YOY increase in revenue in Q1-FY24, driven by its portfolio of co-branded Credit Cards and P ersonal L oans , closing FY23 with audited revenue of ₹159 crore (66% revenue growth from FY22). This performance is against the backdrop of Credit Card spends in India hitting a record high of ₹1.4

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