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JANUARY 14, 2021

Rho Technologies , the FinTech behind Rho Business Banking, has raised $15 million in a Series A round, according to a press release. PYMNTS reported that many businesses, even lone mom-and-pop organizations, are becoming parts of ecosystems, which offer support via a number of integrated services like the ability to accept payments.

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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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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

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

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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Perficient

MARCH 25, 2021

Government relief programs and stimulus payments have been successful and have expiration dates; the time to prepare for the aftermath is now. Collections and loss mitigation functions have historically had underinvestment in terms of technology – banks should ask, “Can I afford not to any longer?”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Although the 20-year-old technology has long enjoyed strong adoption in Asia (especially China), 2020 could go down as the year that U.S. And CVS in August became the first major retailer to introduce PayPal QR code technology, which it plans to roll out in its 8,200 U.S. consumers who were using touchless payments by July.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Payment Cloud Technologies announced Tuesday (Nov. Payment Cloud Technologies said the new banking platform will help An Post’s brand, its diversification and will serve to strengthen the company’s services to meet a broader range of customers. ‘We The company went on to note that there are 2.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Carrboro, North Carolina-based chain has used its technology-first strategy to get, keep and grow its customer base – even while its stores were shut down early in the pandemic. Fleet Feet has come up with proprietary technology to address that. More than one million Fleet Feet customers have used the technology.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

No matter how advanced we get, no matter how innovative technological advances we add on — there is always a little bit of history repeating in there. Visa said it is expanding its partnership with London-based FinTech Revolut to include five new regions reaching 24 markets — bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Borrowing from the strategy of fast food restaurants, Dine Brands is working on a new order-ahead technology. It’s like converting casual dining to fast food,” Dine Brands CEO Stephen Joyce told The Post. By adding technology, restaurants such as Applebee’s hope to increase spending and bring in younger customers.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The inherent challenge of check fraud: Check payments are not real-time in nature, so it takes a while for them to work their way through the system. Conversely, mobile check deposit capture is real-time — and, depending on bank technology solutions, may provide real-time access to at least part of the funds.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The app, the release stated, will integrate Connected Car and Citgo's shopper loyalty program with new mobile commerce technology. Kevin Kinney , general manager of Brand Equity for Citgo, said in the release that the impetus for the partnership was to keep the intertwining of technology with peoples' lives going.

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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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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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DECEMBER 9, 2020

FinTech Revolut has introduced its Pockets tool, while Robinhood Markets is reportedly working with Goldman Sachs for its public offering preparations. Revolut’s 'Pockets' Tool Aims To Help People Organize Payments. Robinhood Markets is reportedly working with Goldman Sachs for its initial public offering (IPO) preparations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Blockchain-enabled commercial payments platform Paystand entered into an initial partnership with JCB t o offer the first end-to-end digital payments platform for JCB customers and Japanese enterprises. As a result, they are saddled with a legacy system rife with costly transaction fees, manual processes and delays.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

With delayed and late B2B payment terms continuing to raise concerns throughout supply chains around the world, some of the biggest brands have taken measures to support the cash flow of their vendors. ’s Prompt Payment Code, according to recent reports , including IBM and BT. One in four U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P. All of these changes we're seeing are the result of a few mega-trends," Moinian said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have deep dives into in-house restaurant ordering apps and cloud technology, as well as a report on banks running short on large bills amid the coronavirus crisis.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. That team was a new initiative created to combine core products, digital payments, Mastercard Labs and processing activities. Broader payment flows is putting it mildly, of course.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Whether businesses were establishing their modernization roadmaps for the first time or simply accelerating the plans they already had in place, the COVID-19 crisis drove organizations to embrace technology at unprecedented levels in order to manage a remote workforce, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Video advertising platform SundaySky wants to make it easier for marketers to quickly update and freshen up video content without a laborious and time-consuming production and editing process. Forrester Wave named SundaySky “a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave : Creative Advertising Technologies, Q4 2020,” SundaySky noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

While QR codes have become an extremely prominent part of the payments landscape in the Asia Pacific region in general and in China specifically, in the U.S. they’ve mostly been relegated to the periphery of the payment and commerce ecosystems. The QR code is certainly part of the mobile payment effort, but I would say U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Cornerstone Brands plans to acquire payments processor FXPress in a deal that also includes a sale of the existing Cornerstone business and restructuring of capital, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. FXPress provides advanced payment systems through a Platform-as-a-Service agreement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

To provide small companies with accounts payable (AP) automation, Medius is bringing its MediusGo invoice automation product to the American market. Introducing MediusGo to the US market marks another important milestone on the Medius growth journey,” Medius Chief Executive Per Åkerberg said in the announcement. “I

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A new report released today by Roubini ThoughtLab holds quite a few insights about the future of wealth management, the future of fintech, and the future of technology, most notably the conclusion that financial institutions with strong brand awareness will be the last ones standing by 2021–not fintechs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. Restaurants and retailers will be able to process in-store payments and personalize readers with their own branding. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The concept of brand voice took a literal turn this month, with Amazon’s latest rollout, Amazon Polly, an AWS product that provides neural network-based text-to-speech services. meal delivery market that DoorDash controlled in October 2019. 75: Number of standard voices Microsoft offers via its Azure Speech Service API.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Via Amazon Pharmacy, consumers will be able to tap into a new self-service platform via their computer or smartphone that will allow them to store payments and insurance information and manage their medication and refills. Brand-name medications will be priced at 40 percent off, and generics will be discounted 80 percent. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To let shoppers discover and try out new products, payment companies are helping merchants launch augmented reality (AR) experiences within social media platforms. Pan-African payments firm Cellulant , for instance, created an AR experience in Facebook Messenger.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. The Voice AI Market. Xiao noted the company is excited about where the drive-thru market is headed in general.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Online platforms have done much to transform payments — especially in terms of transparency, speed and distribution — across any number of verticals from ride-hailing to food delivery. And it wasn't that the technology wasn't there, it's just that the technology wasn't built to suit their unique needs.”.

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