Payments Dive

AUGUST 4, 2022

More brands have entered the cryptocurrency and NFT markets despite signs of declining consumer interest.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Brands looking to sell directly to end users need a vision for what their omnicommerce experience should be, and a plan for how they’re going to deliver something to complement their existing business instead of merely complicating it. Bhatia said there are parts of that effort that brands should focus on and others they should outsource.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – What’s a bank to do when it’s core market is somewhere else and it’s trying to establish itself as a major player in a market already dominated by a set of major banks? The answer, at least to Barclaycard, is co-branding. Based in the U.K., Barclays is one of the major banks in Europe. […].

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Accenture

APRIL 7, 2020

Across Asia, a revolution in payments, banking, e-commerce and services is underway. Underpinned by mobile, digital and open data, established brands and new entrants alike are redefining banking for customers who will seldom set foot in a physical branch.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal . Williform said he conceived BlackCool as a brand inspired by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that brings about a positive change for Black culture. This is a win-win.” .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, Inspire Brands is buying Dunkin’ for $11.3 Plus, Denmark’s Nets is merging with Italy’s Nexi to create one of the largest payments platforms in Europe. That Its Brands Can Run on Dunkin’. After speculations last week, private equity-backed Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin' and bring it private for $11.3

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Bank of Ireland Global Markets has teamed up with fintech company WorldFirst to offer its U.S. based SME customers a foreign exchange and payments service, under the brand – Bank of Ireland Global Payments. told Bank Innovation. It […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Brands, Inc. Gibbs said the company rolled out its contactless initiative for Pizza Hut during the quarter by adding more pickup and payment options for customers. The brand has served nearly 20 million contactless digital orders as of March 2020. “We’ve For Taco Bell U.S., On the downside, Yum! billion in revenue.

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Perficient

JANUARY 22, 2021

I will tell you my preferred brands, and you and your partner will get the same revenue and purchase history. Especially now, data acquired from loyalty programs show brands relevant ways to engage with customers. Customers “sell” their data all the time in the form of loyalty and rewards programs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Men’s Wearhouse owner Tailored Brands might seek bankruptcy in the third quarter of its fiscal year, according to a 10-Q regulatory filing with the U.S. Tailored Brands said the pandemic had a significant effect on its business, as has been the case with a number of merchants. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “We

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Amazon-owned PayFort has changed its name to Amazon Payment Services and will offer installment payments to the markets it serves in the Middle East and North Africa.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Some of the minds behind direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are inspired by their personal experiences. Yardbird’s concept, which has grown into a brand with an eCommerce website and a showroom in Minnesota, offers 10 furniture collections. Higher-end retailers, however, were charging $4,000 to $5,000 for a set of outdoor furniture.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Younger consumers expect instant gratification and affordable ways to obtain the goods they desire, prompting more retailers to adopt buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment services. In fact, the data has shown that the [BNPL] brands that have some maturity to them [have] actually brought in younger customers.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

China’s UnionPay , the payment card issuer, is gearing up to roll out branded cards in the U.K. According to a report in the Financial Times , with UnionPay facing increased competition in its home market from the likes of Alipay and WeChat Pay , it is setting its sights on expansion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Today (June 17) Visa is announcing that their sensory branding suite is in over two dozen countries care of a dozen new partnerships. Visa’s sensory branding suite of products includes a sound, animation and haptic cues for consumers and merchants when a Visa transaction is completed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

PayPal appointed Allison Johnson , a marketing veteran with over two decades of experience in her field, as the company’s new executive VP and chief marketing officer (CMO) on Monday (Jan. I was an early convert to PayPal’s vision of fast, secure online payments. Johnson brings a vast knowledge of marketing to her position.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Global payment processor Payroc announced Wednesday (Nov. 18) in a company press release emailed to PYMNTS that it has acquired Bluestone Payments. Bluestone Payments, founded by Linda Rossetti and launched in 2006, connects merchants in niche markets to payments programs through a referral system.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Geoff Seeley, former Airbnb marketing official, is now working with payment company Afterpay as its global marketing leader. Before that, he worked on digital transformation at Pearson , the world’s biggest education company, and he also worked in marketing at Unilever , Ogilvy and Dentsu Aegis.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Today, it is a must-have for financial institutions (FIs) — that is, if they want their payment products to be the first one for which customers reach at the point of sale, whether physical or digital. The Bank Innovation Readiness Index , in collaboration with payments solutions provider i2c , provides evidence to back that up.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Social shopping is the newest hot trend fueled by the pandemic, as new startups are emerging and established brands such as Macy’s are catching up to capture this area. In retail technology, Yotpo is helping brands capture the digital shift by making a compressed marketing stack for online shopping.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 7, 2019

million U.S.customers, a milestone it's achieved by embedding itself into the payment platforms of large consumer brands. The Australian company this week added known brands like Ray-Ban, O'Neill and Levi's to its partnerships with 3,300 retailers -- a beachhead in a crowded market of startups that include Affirm, […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Western Union just took another big step toward ramping up its growing digital payments arsenal. Western Union first unveiled the goal of expanding digital payments to 100 countries during its investor day event in 2019. The legacy global remittance giant said on Monday (Nov. also called stc pay, for up to $200 million.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 23, 2018

Executives from Caesars Entertainment, Guess?, McDonald's and Skogen's Festival Foods discussed mobile messaging at the recent CONNECT: The Mobile CX Summit in Chicago.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer mattress brands as mattress sales move from brick-and-mortar retail to eCommerce. One brand, though, saw a market opportunity as brands like Casper and Leesa took off. But the brands currently on the market were a useful learning experience for Nectar.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

“We started by aggregating suppliers — this was relatively easy because there was an intrinsic value for suppliers to display their brands online, specially, for those that didn’t have an online presence before joining us,” Pham told PYMNTS. Payments happen outside the marketplace and are done between supplier and buyers via wire transfers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Citigroup is teaming up with Grab , the ride-hailing startup out of Singapore, to roll out co-branded credit cards. In May Citigroup launched a co-branded credit card with Paytm, the Indian digital payments company, and with Qantas a couple of years back.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

End-to-end integrated payment and security software provider Sphere has announced its acquisition of Health iPASS , according to a press release. Health iPASS provides software for cloud-based patient engagement revenue cycle management, helping providers collect revenue and giving a streamlined healthcare payment experience.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

On Monday (April 9), American Express unveiled a new global brand platform and marketing campaign dubbed “Powerful Backing: Don’t Do Business / Don’t Live Life Without It.”. While we have always been known as a relationship company, many people have considered us as only a consumer brand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the challenge for retailers now is deciding what to do next, Amazon Pay Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Wenzel told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. She said this has been critical to Amazon Pay’s success as a payment solution for merchants selling off Amazon.com. It’s predictable.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The retailer said the move will allow customers to complete in-person transactions using PayPal or Venmo account balances or linked bank accounts or payment cards without the need to touch a keypad or present a payment card. Prior to the pandemic, few consumers had experimented with contactless payments at all.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

North Lane Technologies and daVinci Payments said they have finished their merger, making a "high-growth, premier payment company with innovative technology and solutions," according to a Thursday (Dec. 10) announcement. North Lane Technologies was known as Wirecard North America in the past.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Subscription brands, for example, are looking good. For all their current strength, however, subscription services struggle with lost customers and revenues from undue friction at several points in the onboarding and payments process. Top 20 merchants also support more language options and accept more payment methods.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Digital banks, alt credit providers and digital wallet providers may not be thinking about cards as of late 2019, but they are thinking about how to scale their solutions beyond their domestic markets — how to make them interoperable on a global stage. So today (Sept. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Sweden’s Fingerprint Cards AB unveiling a biometric software platform for payment cards, wearables and USB dongles. And mobile payments company TransferTo has become two different brands, DT One and Thunes, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

percent of United States consumers have made at least one purchase with new brands since the start of the global health crisis, for example, driven to try out new merchants due to either lower prices or the expectation of a more convenient experience. eBay On Turning Friction-Filled Payments Experiences Into Consumer Loyalty Opportunities .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Within China, sales of brands from Gucci to Chanel, which have been sluggish for years, rose at the fastest pace in five years in 2016 and are positioned to consolidate those gains in 2018. 2017 saw a global recovery of the luxury retail market due to their affinity for high-end brands.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

In payments, brand matters, more so now than it ever did, and for SMBs adopting mobile commerce initiatives, speed matters too – speed to market and speed to accepting payments in any manner customers desire. The initial launch is being done in tandem with FreshBooks and Infusionsoft.

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