PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., Mastercard Adds B2B Payment Functionality With Commercial Cards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Corporate travel may still be at record lows, but that doesn't mean corporates aren't making good use of their commercial card products. In this week's Commercial Card Tracker, PYMNTS looks at the latest corporate card solutions that reveal the opportunity of rapidly digitizing commercial payments. Emburse Debuts T&E Cards.

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BankInovation

JULY 27, 2023

Mastercard and Visa focused on innovation in the most recent quarter. “We We are winning deals across the globe through the combination of our new innovation products, differentiated services and our solution selling approach,” Mastercard Chief Executive Michael Miebach said during today’s second-quarter earnings call.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Much of what commercial card innovators seek to address is a massive pain point for adoption: supplier acceptance. Such was the strategy of JPMorgan in its latest corporate card initiative. Check out the latest in corporate card innovation below. JPMorgan Taps Boost For Corporate Card Acceptance.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 22, 2022

Every bank wants to be “innovative,” but the truth is innovation is difficult. Add to that a bank’s resource constraints, compliance demands, budget goals, legacy IT infrastructure and talent gaps, and innovation for a bank is extremely difficult. The Problem of Bank Innovation. Framing Innovation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

With corporate travel still on pause, commercial card innovation has taken a different direction. This week’s look at the latest initiatives explores how FinTechs are wielding the corporate card in ways other than business trips, from accessing credit for accounts payable to financing employee lunches.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

New payment rails are once again in the spotlight as real-time payments and cryptocurrency emerge as the top focuses for innovators. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, the European Union begins paving the way for greater crypto adoption, while Mastercard expands its own crypto accelerator initiative.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This week's look at payment rail innovation is all about speed, both for legacy rails and new ones. Combining these elements, we are creating a broad platform with faster technology and smarter and better services that the industry can trust as a foundation for innovation towards their own end-clients," he added.

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Payments Dive

JULY 9, 2019

Innovations in the payments space are driving significant changes in the global travel industry. Airlines, travel agencies, payments processors and card issuers all need to recognize the role that speed, reliability and efficiency must be top of mind to maintain strong relationships with your customers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Safety-minded consumers the world over can now be seen tapping contactless cards, scanning QR codes or utilizing voice ordering technologies to make purchases without potentially putting themselves or others at risk of contracting the virus. The Beyond The Card: Toward The Cardless And Contactless Future report, a PYMNTS and i2c Inc.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What's more, the market lull may offer a moment to focus on innovation for the future as commercial payment habits shift — perhaps permanently. Virtual Cards And Mobile Technology. Bill.com revealed some of those changes as it highlighted the innovations driving a solid first fiscal quarter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital B2B payments innovations as diverse as machine learning (ML) automation, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and virtual cards are gaining unprecedented traction as businesses move to build sustainable B2B payments operations outside of th e office. RLJ Financial On Managing B2B Spend With Virtual Cards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. Black Swans Are the Sandbox of New Innovations. A few innovators do come forward with good ideas, but often the environment can’t support them past the short term. While it may take years, these good, innovative ideas often resurface when the time is right.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

As commercial card innovation expands, service providers continue to target particular pain points for their business cardholders. Together, the companies are rolling out an offering that arms SMBs with commercial cards without the need for a personal guarantee, according to a press release. Archa Collabs With i2c in Australia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

There’s a huge opportunity [in B2B payments] for businesses that have traditionally focused on the consumer,” David Disque , president of Corporate Spending Innovations (CSI), said in an interview with Karen Webster. The card rails, in particular, offer a way for traditionally B2C merchants to ease their expansion into B2B payments, he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs , Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). To use Apple Pay, customers tap the card icon in the Afterpay app, which then activates the Afterpay card in the Apple wallet.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

PSCU has appointed Denise Stevens as senior vice president and chief product officer, while Scott Young will head the product delivery leadership team as vice president of innovation, PSCU announced today (Feb. Stevens will oversee product delivery and management, as well as its innovation teams. Young will report to Stevens. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Infineon Technologies , which works as a semiconductor manufacturer, is doing away with employee identification cards at its Germany headquarters and instead implementing a new smart card solution that combines office building access and Mastercard contactless payments capabilities, according to a FinTech Intel report.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Payment innovators are embracing the opportunities to mix payment rails old and new in search of business-to-business (B2B) solutions that can tackle longstanding friction. Visa To Use Card Rails For Digital Currency B2B Payments. CardUp Mixes Rails To Enable Card Payments. Dollar Coin (USDC) on the ethereum blockchain.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As corporate card innovation accelerates, new paths to adoption emerge. Visa To Support USDC Card Payments. Visa To Support USDC Card Payments. Dollar Coin (USDC), Visa is reportedly planning to support USDC payments via its corporate card products. Adflex Drives Card Adoption Within Supply Chains.

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Payments Dive

APRIL 16, 2024

“The credit card industry should take a page from innovators, instead of relying on yesterday’s fee models,” argues the CEO of the payment tools provider.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. Physical cards are changing form, as some NFC-capable mini-cards are being embedded in rings and other wearables. Physical cards are changing form, as some NFC-capable mini-cards are being embedded in rings and other wearables.

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BankInovation

MARCH 13, 2024

Mastercard Foundry, the innovation hub for product development at the card giant, is creating a new technology-focused position, as it continues its tech investment. Director of innovation The $42 billion card giant’s ideal […] The company’s operating expenses in 2023 increased 11% year over year to $11.1

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

As consumers shop amid ongoing public health restrictions, they almost invariably reach for their credit cards — whether the physical varieties in their wallets or the digital versions stored on their browsers and mobile devices. More than ever, credit cards are becoming the coin of the realm in the global connected economy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Spend management was the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to partnerships and investments in firms aiming to help companies keep track of expenses. The platform brings together virtual and physical cards for staffers, spend approvals, bill management and expenditure reimbursements.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Danske Bank , the Copenhagen-based retail bank, has partnered with FinTech firm Zenegy to roll out a new method for automating payments made with corporate cards, a report from Crowdfund Insider says. The corporate card is going through a change this year, like many other parts of the business world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

The cellphone is an invention; the smartphone is an innovation. That gap between creating something and putting it to ingenious use is where innovation does its magic. percent of executives at large CUs reported planning card issuance innovations for these reasons, respectively. Our study shows that 83.3 percent and 66.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

With businesses large and small increasingly turning their attention toward recovery efforts, the commercial credit card market is exploring ways to help their corporate card holders. Commercial Card, Global Commercial Services, Courtney Kelso in a statement. Neat Debuts Its Visa Card For Small Businesses.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 3, 2019

Mastercard’s tokenization technology made the digital-first Apple Card possible, but purely from a technological standpoint, Jorn Lambert, EVP, Digital Solutions at Mastercard, told Bank Innovation. It was the evolution of consumers' and merchants' preferences in how they make and receive payments that made the card a reality.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

However, figures show that a majority of executives are in the midst of digital transformations, where 83 percent of financial services executives surveyed say that they’ve innovated with payments technology this year. Aquilina said virtual cards are poised to eclipse other commercial card form factors over the next few years.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The payments digitization push has ramped up for corporates in recent months, with growing corporate card adoption attributed to the pandemic, recent Mastercard data reveals. Lawmakers Eye Expanded Fleet Card Use. Fleet service cards act just like credit cards at a gas station," Rep. Lawmakers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Roughly one-third (35 percent) have made data analytics investments over the past three years, according to the Credit Union Innovation Playbook. Also, credit unions that focus on data analytics are more likely to pursue a wider range of innovations than those that do not. Despite innovations like AI and mobile video banking — 59.9

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 23, 2017

They manage the Fintech Istanbul program, and are the powerhouse behind many of the innovations we’ve seen in Turkey from mobile wallets to contactless payments. We may describe Turkish banking sector as strong, innovative, modern and well-regulated. million credit cards, 118.3 debit cards and 1.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

65.8%: Portion of debit-centric consumers who want card apps to offer easier account management. Data: 15K : Number of Kim Kardashian’s perfume units that sold out within minutes when the celebrity appeared on a China livestreaming show. 57.9% : Share of credit-centric revolvers who are interested in payment plans for large purchases.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

On the path to payments innovation, collaboration is key. Mastercard Mobilizes The Virtual Commercial Card. This week, Mastercard unveiled its newest commercial payments technology offering: a virtual card product that is supported by mobile wallets. Razorpay Links With Visa For Small Business Card Solutions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

EnKash , a digital platform and payment solution provider, has entered into an alliance with Mastercard to expand the usage and acceptance of commercial cards in India and provide a B2B digital payment automation platform, according to a press release.

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