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Revolutionizing the Way We Pay: The Top Payment Industry Trends You Need to Know in 2023

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A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. Both Visa and Mastercard rolled out pilot biometric payment cards in 2022. To use this offering, cardholders enrolled a fingerprint to have securely stored on their card.

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The Facebook Files: Royal Bank of Canada, Facebook Differ On Why Bank Had Continuing Data Access

Bank Innovation

Royal Bank of Canada and Facebook today offered differing versions of why the social media company continued to give the bank extraordinary access to customer data after Facebook said publicly that it would stop doing so. RBC said Facebook allowed it access in order to “wind down” a payments app it first unveiled in 2013. […].

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Amazon’s Bitcoin Embrace And Cannabis Burgers Top The Week’s News

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Visa’s newest APIs will help those within the Visa ecosystem to create digital cards on demand and add digital services. Is Apple Card Already Changing Payments? Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, is reportedly settling on Synchrony Financial to issue the Venmo credit card. Welcome to the PYMNTS Weekender. We hope you enjoy.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

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Then, bad grades came in right as summer party season kicked off, mom and dad took away the car and credit card, and the Venmo transfers came to a screeching halt. Thankfully, there was still a smartphone and social media to commiserate. First, there was the drama leading up to the breakup with the rich hottie.

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Real Innovation Solves Today’s Problems, Not Tomorrow’s

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If not, you probably will soon, since it just teamed up with 7-Eleven to bring surcharge-free ATM access to 8,000 of the convenience chain’s retail locations. MoneyPass, a network of Elan Financial Services , provides ATM and debit card processing solutions for financial institutions, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) and retailers.

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Inside The FIS Innovation Process With EVP Bruce Lowthers

PYMNTS

The beautiful thing about our fast-paced lives of today is that social media and innovation are constantly surrounding the payments space — you would have to live in a cave to not be getting or seeking feedback from your consumers. That said, the place where I get the most information is through social media — like LinkedIn.

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Big Tech Firms Sizzle, Star-Backed ICOs Fizzle

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Celebrities who endorse an investment often do not have sufficient expertise to ensure that the investment is appropriate and in compliance with federal securities laws,” the SEC said. “If The real danger is that if followers on social media are swayed, they might be swayed right to the edge of an investment cliff.