PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Federal Reserve is turning heads for its attention to faster payments, but the Fed has recently announced yet another initiative in the payments innovation space. Last week, the Fed’s Secure Payments Task Force called for comment from industry stakeholders about what challenges they face when it comes to payments security.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Almost ironically, card products are poised to play a big part in the 2020 cashflow survival story. In the payments space, how do you get cash now? There are a lot of retailers that are now looking to their local community to effectively prepay through gift cards to sustain themselves in the short term,” he said.

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

According to Building A Better App: Banks And The Innovation Imperative , a report co-produced by PYMNTS and Ondot , almost a quarter, or 24.3 Their questions aren’t so much about why they should be doing this, and much more about how to get started. Cards — debit or credit — they say, are not really their core business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The testing tool comes as the global economy embraces digital payments and central banks investigate how to support innovation while maintaining financial stability as they issue the currency. The Mastercard-branded payment cards promise to allow consumers to pay with cryptocurrency. In a Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

It’s also opened up conversations about how professionals get paid. While there has been some innovation in wage payment mechanisms as more employers shift away from the paper check toward direct deposit and payroll cards, little has changed about the timing of those payments. ACH Innovation Breaks The Mold.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Payments credit union PSCU is prepared to handle what they predict will be a rush in 2020 to adopt contactless cards, the company said in a press release on Wednesday (Nov. In 2020, PSCU anticipates distribution of more than three million new contactless cards to 100-plus credit unions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Every business walks the same tightrope when it comes to processing payments: Convenience versus security. It doesn’t matter if the business is consumer-facing or serving other businesses (B2B); security is top of mind for all of them, yet adding more layers can introduce more friction, and that can scare customers away.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Large providers, drug manufacturers and insurance firms have big innovations that are moving them away from checks. That’s because, when a customer is dealing with the healthcare system, worrying about how to receive the payment is likely their least important concern. The Foundation For Innovation.

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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. QuickBooks Adds Card Payment Support.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Our customers increasingly rely on us to provide solutions that help make their systems safer and more secure,” said Johan Gerber, executive vice president, security and cyber innovation, Mastercard. Threat Scan is part of our multi-layered security strategy to secure the payments ecosystem,” said Johan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Matt Carpenter, senior vice president and market director of Elan Financial Services , explores how his firm has responded to the drastic changes the pandemic has brought to the financial landscape and the world at large. "We The pandemic has generated a surge in mobile wallet usage so that payments can be made without ever touching a card.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

In a payments landscape that is ever-changing and rapidly growing, having a focus on innovation that takes that same approach is significant. As Peter Read , President of Peoples Card Services , recently pointed out to PYMNTS, needs are never static, and neither should the payments innovation aimed at addressing them.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Maybe one day, quick-service restaurant ( QSR ) operators will look back upon 2019 as their cramming experience when it comes to digital security and fraud prevention. Now, they are doing all this digital innovation, and it’s really moving the needle,” he said. Heck, yeah!”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

As with any payment method, fraud attacks and human errors can upend customer experiences unless companies have strong security strategies in place. Alvarez explained in a recent PYMNTS interview how effectively securing real-time transactions requires thorough contingency planning and advanced customer verification methods.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. The network would run on a card issued by Barclays U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

19) the availability of a fully electronic PIN code distribution for its cards. debit cards from Hello Bank!, According to the release, the customer gets the PIN for the card in the restricted area of the Hello Bank! site using the security codes generated from the Hello! BNL, BNP Paribas Group announced on Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Now as a part of Mastercard, the combined business is the first global network to be able to support both bank account and card-based payments, offering more choice to its customers. For new entrants into the payments ecosystem, the challenge — then as now — will be the trade-off between ease of use and security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Large providers, drug manufacturers and insurance firms have big innovations that are moving them away from checks. That’s because, when a customer is dealing with the healthcare system, worrying about how to receive the payment is likely their least important concern. The Foundation For Innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are now working to extend services into customers’ homes, for example, and consumers are making fewer credit card payments amid uncertainty over what their employment statuses and budgets might be when the bills come due. The Paytm cards can be used both in-store and online. Around the Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. Innovating The ATM Beyond Cash. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As more stakeholders and players join the fold, there’s a ripe opportunity to find innovative ideas in unlikely places. PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Maybe one day, quick-service restaurant ( QSR ) operators will look back upon 2019 as their cramming experience when it comes to digital security and fraud prevention. Now, they are doing all this digital innovation, and it’s really moving the needle,” he said. Heck, yeah!”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

” Innovation Project 2016 — where hundreds of leaders across the payments, commerce, tech and security ecosystems joined together under one roof with one mission: navigating the balance between the leading and the bleeding edge. Especially when your talking innovations in payments. So, how did Day 2 end up?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

We posed the same question to each executive: If you had to answer the question, Payments was the year of …, how would you answer, and how does your answer change your world — and the world of payments, more broadly? Payments 2016: The Year Of EMV-Enabled Cards. Here is the response from Ray Wizbowski, CMO of Entrust Datacard ….

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NCR

JANUARY 23, 2017

The past year has provided more sobering examples of just how big a threat cyber criminals and fraudsters pose to all industries, particularly financial services. Human action remains the largest threat to bank security. The weakest link in mobile banking security? ” How to keep up with evolving threats. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Just weeks ago at PYMNTS’ Innovation Project, Alison Connolly, director of strategic partnerships at Owl Cybersecurity , shared how the company is creating an opportunity for dark net big data to be harnessed through a commercially available database. Owl Cybersecurity created a way to safely query the dark net.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I am always glad to see headlines like this one, which ran last summer in The New York Times: “ How to Reduce Credit Card Fraud.” The vast majority of the nearly 370 billion payment card transactions made globally each year are scanned by sophisticated software designed to detect fraud, in less time than a blink of the eye.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The plastic payment card is dead. Long live the plastic payment card! Forgive the whipsaw attitude, but that’s how it can feel sometimes when discussing the future of payment cards. Card Clarity. The payment card has “a long life ahead of it.” Innovative Edge. What to make of that?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The pandemic has been driving consumer payment choices and purchasing behaviors, influencing how customers transact, which payments they use and why they use them, according to a new survey. Contactless payment innovation is underway at the nation’s CUs as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower the risks of infection.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But Connors noted that customers’ expectations when they interact online — particularly in places like virtual casinos – still remains paramount, especially in terms of payment choice, site security, and the payout process when a player is ready to digitally “cash out” their winnings. The user experience has to be good,” he said. “If

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

What checks lack in appeal, they make up for in history – and every government agency at every level knows how to stamp an address on one and ship it out. At base, every government agency wants three simple things when it comes to disbursements: increased efficiency, transparency and security. A Patchwork Project .

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Consumers want to use e-commerce, digital payments and other new card innovations, but are still wary of fraud. Here's how to help them get over that fear.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

What we are seeing [is] continual innovation in terms of services and offerings for corporates and for individuals that are being built utilizing open banking rails.”. Some of these innovations include improved data gathering capabilities and heightened protection against financial crime. Open Banking Prevents Data Exposure.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Keeping customers' digital payment data safe and secure is a critical part of doing business in the digital economy, and following Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance guidelines is an effective way for firms to accomplish this. Carlson pointed to HealPay’s over-the-phone card payment compliance offerings as an example.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We imagine if presented with an iPhone, penicillin, an automobile or just a ballpoint pen, even the original scribe would have been forced to concede that exciting innovations might be coming up on humanity’s horizon in the intervening 30 centuries. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership. So today (Sept.

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