PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

B2B online commerce technology company NuORDER has unveiled its NuORDER Payments offering. NuORDER brands can start taking credit card payments inside of their wholesale platforms without needing to process payments by telephone or harness a third-party payment gateway, according to a Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

In a report, Business Insider said Costco cards saw more than $52 billion in purchase sales during the first six months of the cards and more than $6 billion in loan growth. branded cards business growth. While Citi is enjoying a lot of growth since taking over the Costco card, it’s also resulting in an increase in costs.

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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. That seismic change may not be felt in payments.

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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. Consumers can use LINE Pay through their smartphone screen, without having to present a physical credit card. billion yen ($1.33

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Merchants are optimizing their eCommerce operations, but this is posing challenges for some, including luxury merchants. These retailers are accustomed to engaging with their customers in brick-and-mortar stores and building long-lasting relationships that lead to brand loyalty. billion this year — almost double last year’s total.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

In an effort to simplify B2B payments for Australia, FinTech service provider WEX is teaming with digital business management technology company MYOB. The tie-up provides WEX clients with access to MYOB's business payment technology for vendor payments through WEX virtual credit cards, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

A group of investors has acquired Sureswipe , a South African payments company, for an undisclosed amount. Sureswipe will be consolidated under the newly-formed Crossfin Transactional Services (CTS), along with Innervation Pan African Payments and Emerge Mobile’s iKhokha. However, all three entities will operate separately.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. Financial institutions (FIs) face the issue of whether to outsource their credit card programs or do it themselves – a decision that will maintain its importance in the coming new decade.

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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. In addition to market consolidation, the corporate expense management landscape continues to see greater competition.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Plus, Afterpay launched a cross-border payment option for merchants. The funding is being earmarked to launch credit cards-as-a-service in the U.S. shoppers with installment payments next year. The consensus: the brands ready to flex with the ebbs and flows of changing consumer preferences are the ones that will survive.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

For B2B payments, this summer was a season of technological progress. percent) express satisfaction with using virtual cards to settle invoices. In another collaboration with Mastercard this summer, the PYMNTS B2B Payments Automation Innovation Playbook similarly revealed that the demand for AP automation is on the rise.

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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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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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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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Indian FinTech Infibeam Avenues , which works in digital payment and eCommerce solutions, has bought all shares of Cardpay Technologies, which provides payment and invoice technology, in an all-stock deal. In the announcement , the companies said the acquisition will help Ahmedabad-based Infibeam offer better B2B payment services.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Mobile payments — the ability to pay for gas using an app? People have been pulling up to a pump and using a card for a long time,” McCrary told Webster. Brands are improving their food services, renovating bathrooms, expanding their shop offerings and expanding their mobile payment options. That can change, she noted.

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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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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In terms of payments, they all use the services of Adyen, the Amsterdam-based payments giant. Adyen operates in more countries and currencies than competitor Stripe, and serves large, international operations, while Stripe works with startups and developers. Netflix, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, Spotify., Adyen’s Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

2) that it had been the victim of a malware attack that almost stole customers’ payment data. Landry’s owns and operates more than 600 chains, including bars, restaurants, hotels, food and beverage outlets, and casinos. Landry’s said those incidents were rare, and that Select Club rewards cards had not been affected.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Mint Gateway for Electronic Payment Services, a unit of The Mint Corp. , is expanding payroll card operations across the African continent, a market that represents significant growth for the company. The three-year agreement will initially see 300,000 payroll cards issued.

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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

MAY 22, 2019

Mastercard and Interac, the global and domestic payment networks, announced Wednesday (May 22) they are collaborating to offer customers in Canada a fast and easy way to send money internationally. ” According to Mastercard and Interac, Canada is a big market for international payments given its diverse population.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

In a recent conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Miller discussed the impact of shifting buyer habits on merchants’ digital sales strategies, with optimized back-end payment processes essential to delivering a powerful customer experience on the front end. Brand Loyalty’s Surging Importance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment. In 2009, Uber made payments disappear.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Merchant acquirer Payroc announced that RewardPay , its signature payment processing product, is growing its processing features. Payroc said that RewardPay is a “card brand-compliant” surcharging program that lets merchants have cardholders pay all or a portion of their credit card processing fees.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Indonesian FinTech LinkAja closed a Series B funding round headed up by Grab, while Nigeria-based Kuda landed $10 million after a funding round. Plus, Canadian payment services company Interac is collaborating with Walmart Canada to expand debit card payment methods in store and online.

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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

MAY 5, 2020

has taken in $920 million in cash via arrangements with co-branded credit card firms. with the early payment of a signing bonus agreed to in the past as well as prepayment of revenues to come, Bloomberg reported. The hotel company is said to be one of the biggest co-brand partners of American Express.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

Customers can either round up their bills to the nearest dollar and give the excess to charity or get their change stored on loyalty cards. “The Federal Reserve is experiencing a significant coin shortage that is impacting our store operations and ability to provide change,” the company wrote on Twitter. “As If the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Payguru is a Turkish company currently working to give residents a way to pay for bus travel cards via text message, according to a report by Financial Times (FT). The way it works, since the company began testing it in the city of Kahramanmaras in 2018, is that users can send a text message and refill their cards via mobile phone.

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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

MARCH 17, 2016

Payment and banking solutions technology provider ACI Worldwide said on Wednesday (March 16) that it is linking up with Verifone, which provides payments and commerce solutions, to deliver what the two firms said is a “comprehensive pan-European card payments platform” tailored to Auchan Group, which is among the biggest food retailers in Europe.

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