PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s not hard to find experts who predict that, even with the new date, gas stations will fail to comply with the deadline, which is set by card networks. Before getting into that, though, it pays to understand what’s going on with the EMV deadline in this specific area of retail to get a good sense of context. LISNR Offering.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

That provides a rough idea of some of the motivation behind Mastercard ’s latest effort in payments and commerce innovation — an effort described in depth in a new PYMNTS interview between Karen Webster and Amnah Ajmal, Mastercard’s executive vice president of core products. Not Just A Number. FinTech Role.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

Retail is not the same as it was at the beginning of 2020 — in fact, it isn’t the same as it was a mere month-and-a-half ago, given the quick and sweeping changes that COVID-19 has brought in its wake. Amid economic uncertainty, certain retailers are adapting and innovating in ways we haven’t seen before,” Molnar told Webster. “In

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FICO

MARCH 9, 2022

The last few years have thrown up many challenges for banks and card providers as everything has shifted online, one of the primary challenges being fraud scams. Recent research we undertook looked at the connection between customer experience and fraud controls from a consumer perspective.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 9, 2019

In this episode, Suman Bhattacharyya, deputy editor of Bank Innovation, speaks with Alyson Clarke, principal analyst at Forrester Research, about the following developments: With the much-awaited launch of Apple Card, the tech giant has taken a page […].

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2020

based Green Dot allows the retail giant’s customers to create a direct deposit account from home through Walmart’s MoneyCard, a […]. Through an existing partnership with Walmart, the Pasadena, Calif.-based

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards. Card fraud is an ever-present threat.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. The downsides are that the subscription model is subject to customer churn and high acquisition costs. What Security Means For Subscriptions.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2020

This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed suit against Citizens Bank, alleging violations of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), including implementing Regulation Z and the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consumers are going digital and are finding the experience to be an upgrade, while the physical retail channel is becoming increasingly unsatisfying by a pretty wide margin. Herron said that means retail needs to catch up and start rethinking a model that is “definitely broken right now” when it comes to shopping in a physical store.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

Through the arrangement, Crate and Barrel will pair with Synchrony on a private label credit card as well as a new dual-branded card, the companies said in an announcement. “In The new Synchrony-backed credit cards are expected to be released later in 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And it might not go so far in payments and commerce in the coming decade, at least going by the results of a new Mastercard collaboration with Harvard Business Review Analytics on what really works when it comes to innovation, companies and executives. 2020 Innovation Sparks. The report, released Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

While quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers and customers might view the same menu, they might not always be on the same page when it comes to technology and innovation. However, a look at recent data found that many QSRs are not exactly quick to implement customers’ preferred innovations.

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

Put simply, embedded finance is the placing of a financial product in a nonfinancial customer experience, journey, or platform. . I remember when my mother stopped shopping at one department store because they wouldn’t give her a charge card in her own name, but another store would on their private-label charge card.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A value card gives VIP guests immediate access to winnings. The card is reloadable and can be used on any service (gaming, hospitality, entertainment and ATMs) at the resort, in brick and mortar retail worldwide, and online. . There are more than 2.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

BMO Bank of Montreal is expanding its commercial card portfolio with a focus on small businesses. 5) that it is launching four new small business credit card products with various spender benefits. Our customers are expecting it of us, and it’s important for us as an industry to show innovation.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is both genesis and lifeblood for companies, especially within the payments space. PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? Our approach to innovation is two-fold. First and foremost, we’re focused on the needs of customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. In addition to Alexa, the restaurant chain is also turning to other digital innovations. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Kroger Co.

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FICO

MAY 9, 2019

Congratulations to UBS Card Center on winning the Security Innovation of the Year award at the Retail Banker International Awards. UBS Card Center processes roughly 25 percent of all credit cards in Switzerland. The post UBS Card Center Wins Security Innovation Award with FICO AI appeared first on FICO.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

To create more convenient ordering experiences and build loyalty, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are innovating with the help of digital and mobile technologies. From Starbucks to Dunkin’ and Chipotle Mexican Grill , QSRs are working to enhance their customers’ experiences through technology. Loyalty Programs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

Put a bit more simply: Retailers face both a data problem and a time problem. In an interview with PYMNTS, Nathan Trueblood, VP of Product Management at DataTorrent , said customer expectations of retailers are changing — adding both challenge and opportunity to that data/time conundrum.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

The latest Restaurant Readiness Index survey shows QSRs should be focusing on digital services to boost the customer experience — and with it, sales. Each restaurant is then graded from 0 to 100, representing no innovation at all to most innovative. So what makes an innovative restaurant?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere. It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Via Mastercard’s relationship with Synchrony, it will work with Walgreens to launch new credit card products, as well as a pre-paid debit card. As of mid-2020, Walgreens has focused on its loyalty program, online capabilities and overall customer experience. But that’s where the standard co-brand partnership ends.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 30, 2019

While the jury is still out whether the Apple Card will be the disruptive force that Apple has claimed it will be, fintech firms and banks alike appear eager to beat the tech giant to the punch. Tuesday’s launch of Zerocard, a “debit-style” credit card from fintech firm Zero, in partnership with WebBank, Evolve Bank […].

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NCR

OCTOBER 13, 2017

One innovation that demonstrates what can be achieved when the mobile and ATM channels are brought together is Mastercard’s Cash Pick-Up. This mobile cash disbursement service allows individuals or companies to send money to anyone with a valid mobile phone number, even if the recipient doesn’t have a bank account or debit card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Unattended retail will be a $275 billion-a-year industry in three years. In this week’s Data Drivers installment, Keegan joined Karen Webster to discuss the data that’s driving both innovation and growth across the unattended space as well as how operators are overcoming the payments security challenges in this fast-changing marketplace.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

“Consumers have a lot of different choices on where and how they purchase their items and services, [so] it’s really important that the merchant provides a quality, seamless customer experience in the hopes that they’ll come back for a repeat of it. Tokenization Can Help Build Sales. Smart Merchants Will Be Proactive.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Visa recently announced a new policy to help shoppers alleviate this pain point.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. The challenge for the last year has just been educating our customer base. So that’s a really big, important part of us preparing our customers for the new realities.”. The four recent payments revolutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

In today’s top payments news, Alibaba and Ant Financial created an app for the Chinese government to use to track people and their health status, and some AmEx salespeople reportedly misrepresented card rewards and feeds to boost card applications. Visa’s Former Innovation Chief, Jim McCarthy, To Begin Position As President At i2c.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Payments Innovation Leads the Way . Payments and banking products were pushed to the head of the digital-first line thanks to the pandemic, leading to the acceleration of contactless and card-not-present commerce. Those processors will in turn work with issuing banks to offer near-instant issuance of cards.”.

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