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

MAY 29, 2019

Gig, eCommerce and public utility firms are putting the spotlight on payment innovations to remain competitive in markets that are becoming increasingly saturated. In contactless payments news, only a small fraction of payments in the United States avoid the swipe or chip card reader.

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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. Collaboration is key to many of these efforts, with big banks working with Boost Payment Solutions, Coupa, Mesh and OPEN.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

While the coronavirus crisis certainly accelerated the drive toward digital, the mid-market's commerce digitization push was well underway before the pandemic hit. With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

The legal cannabis market’s financial services challenges are, by now, well-known. That doesn’t mean these companies have the ability to easily adopt the same payments solutions that businesses in other industries can access. Today, however, the banking challenge has largely been solved. Augmenting Legacy Infrastructure.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

It’s a model based on the concept of collaboration and cooperation, two ideals that have become instrumental in the financial services arena’s payments innovation efforts. CUs’ Global Payments Opportunity. ” That global reach also had the CU prioritizing global payments innovation from the get-go.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Might mobile payments help revolutionize corporate cards? It’s been well documented how reliant on paper checks B2B payments have been right up to and even into the pandemic — with a significant percentage of payments being done through those antiquated means.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Most are encouraging employees to work from home while also moving their back-office operations online, and payments operations are no exception. Around The B2B Payments For The Virtual Workforce World. The benefits of using digital B2B payments solutions extend far beyond their ability to support a decentralized workforce.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. According to Goldman Sachs, the B2B payments space will see volumes topping nearly $200 trillion by 2028, more than five times the volume of B2C payment flows.

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Accenture

JUNE 27, 2022

Most payments leaders who participated in our Growth in Payments research think digital payments could overtake plastic cards and cash by 2025. It’s clear that they expect a surge in payments innovation, different consumer behaviors, shifting regulations—and new payments growth.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Prepaid payments are primed to be the main innovation rail for the Canadian payments market, as developments in automated banking and consumer technology make headway and market size grows. The Canadian prepaid market in 2019 had $3.74

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

card companies just moved a step closer to gaining access to China’s $27 trillion payments market. China said it won’t take longer than 90 days to consider applications from providers of electronic-payments services such as Mastercard, Visa and American Express Co., The biggest U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

A transformation toward contactless payments is underway at the nation’s credit unions as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower infection risks with COVID-19. It will likely alter global markets and regulations as the financial ecosystem becomes more digitized. The High Stakes Of Offering Contactless.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

won approval to set up a bank card clearing business in China, gaining access to a $27 trillion payments market as part of the nation’s financial opening. Mastercard Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Mastercard has added new B2B payment features in the Asia Pacific, intending to bolster its services for businesses looking for diverse payments methods, a press release says. The new payment facility will help to boost cash flow management and automate payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

FinTech SumUp is launching its first card for business payments, in partnership with Mastercard , SumUp announced in a blog post on Tuesday (Feb. The new SumUp Card will enable merchants to quickly access money and monitor finances while making necessary business payments. The card will also help U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said to be the first global open-loop commercial service created to automate payments between the world’s buyers and suppliers. With innovation comes new challenges.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And in payments innovation, tokenization and data vaulting take the sting out of payment card industry (PCI) compliance. 6.8B: Estimated size of the global tokenization market by 2027. . 6.8B: Estimated size of the global tokenization market by 2027. consumer’s whole paycheck. All this, Today in Data.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2019

CPI Card Group announced that it has launched Second Wave cards for markets including transit, hospitality, entertainment and more. First launched in September, Second Wave payment cards feature a core made with recovered ocean-bound plastic to reduce first-use plastic while diverting plastic waste from entering the ocean.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In today’s top payment news, retail remains a bright spot in the markets, Ant Financial has rolled out a strategy for digital evolution in China, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a suit against a Cincinnati-based bank. Payments Stocks Plummet While Retail Remains A Bright Spot.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Payments, of course, are a vital part of the whole legal betting process. A key part of user experience is payment speeds.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There is also the chance (please no, not this time) of some hassle with payments, such as the corporate account or card not going through, or maybe, on the travel agency side, a software glitch or another problem that adds friction and frustration to an already long travel day. Innovation Challenges. Innovation Willingness.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The pandemic has forced businesses to pivot quickly to continue their operations — both domestically and internationally — with relative ease as the health crisis affects everything from supply chains to payment schedules. These digital changes should pertain to more than just payments themselves, however. trillion reported in 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercial card technology have positioned the payment tool as one that’s gaining traction in the accounts payable department. This, he noted, is Mesh’s entryway to the market of cross-border B2B payments.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 23, 2017

I’ve been working closely with BKM, the Turkish retail payments clearing company, for a few years now. 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. million credit cards, 118.3 debit cards and 1.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Commercial card technology can ease multiple pain points in B2B payments. But as today’s industry players reveal, the commercial card opportunity is often biggest in areas outside of the payment. Pleo Makes a Commercial Card Shift. market, including Tide and Soldo. Citi Targets Customer Service.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Rapyd, a startup that converts international payments, announced a partnership with Visa this week to grow its card issuing business. “A A major opportunity for us, and we’re seeing this around the world from a sheer use-case perspective, is card issuing,” said Marc Winitz, chief marketing officer at Rapyd.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s an innovator’s job to look at the status quo and disrupt what has always been done in favor of progress. Increasingly, however, payment rail innovators are also introducing ways to bypass traditional banks altogether, with many in favor of distributed ledger technology to move money between businesses and across borders.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Mastercard is teaming up with Network International , which works in digital commerce for the Middle East and Africa, to help drive the adoption of commercial payment services in that region, according to a press release.

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