PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. Telecommuting, online education and moving to a cashless and virtual financial system will likely become the norm,” he told PYMNTS. Black Swans Are the Sandbox of New Innovations. But when the dotcom bust happened in 2001, our innovations also died.

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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

MARCH 2, 2020

A trillion-dollar market cap later, it’s hard to argue Amazon’s effectiveness, quote attribution notwithstanding. It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat currencies into digital versions, complete with denominations and serial numbers and recorded via blockchain. The system would then remove the paper currency from circulation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

These days, no matter how creative, innovative and disruptive an idea a financial services player may have, the reality is they don’t have a lot of time to sit around developing it. Speed to market is critical, more so today than it has ever been in history. The range of users on these cards is pretty wide.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In fact, according to The Business Research Company’s 2022 Payment Security Global Market Report , the payment security market is expected to reach $43 billion by 2026. A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder.

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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. Emerging Business Models.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Illustration by The Laundry Room/Stocksy Customer data fuels efficient and effective marketing these days. From these actions, community banks receive data on their income, home address, email address, credit card debt, employer and financial products they want to learn more about.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Banks, merchants, issuers, processors — they’re all locked in combat with shadowy fraudsters that gain system access via phishing emails as easily as mice sneak into old houses. A confluence of factors, some in staging for years and others totally unexpected, are creating a vast new market for digitization across the entire financial sector.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Innovation is no longer optional – it’s table stakes to stay in the game. The good news: There is no shortage of innovative ideas and options for today’s FIs to offer to their customers: digital wallets, P2P payments, card controls, fraud and security protection, and loyalty and rewards perks among them.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

small business market (SMB) will reach $9 trillion by 2020, but also notes that 80 percent of SMBs still use paper checks to make payments. A majority (55 percent) of corporate professionals identified real-time payments as their top B2B payment service priority, according to the Real-Time Payments Innovation Playbook.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

A new proposed service by the payments provider would let parents create spending accounts attached to debit cards for their teenage children, giving them more flexibility in spending at an early age, as opposed to just handing them a few dollars. Venmo is not the first company to inch in on the debit card market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Commercial cards account for only a portion of corporates’ overall spend, as checks stick around and ACH gains ground. However, their market share is on the rise as card issuers develop more robust rewards programs, and the ability to integrate card spend into back-office spend management and analytics platforms.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Before CEO Toffer Grant founded PEX , he worked in the world of prepaid cards (gift cards in particular), where Christmas was the biggest challenge of every year. Gift card use would faithfully and intensely spike around Christmas, only to settle back to a more typical baseline six to eight weeks after the “event.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The Mastercard Track Card to Account Transfer, the release says, will let businesses use commercial cards to pay suppliers even if the suppliers don't take card payments. The new payment facility will help to boost cash flow management and automate payments.

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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 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

APRIL 23, 2019

Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Commercial cards continue to explore more use cases to optimize spend for businesses, from accounts payable (AP) to employee travel and expense management. Increasingly, the corporate card industry is also looking at ways to take advantage of the unique challenges in particular industries. Mastercard Expands EU Biz Card Offerings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

By the numbers, 2019 is a good year for corporate card innovation. According to the Corporate Credit Products edition of the Innovation Readiness Playbook™ , 74 percent of FIs offer corporate credit products and 94 percent are currently developing new products or planning to do so within the next year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Innovations run the gamut from promo codes to coupons and quick-response (QR) scans in addition to other features such as delivery tracking. Overall, merchants in the $1 trillion accommodation and food services market see digital innovation as key for staying competitive in the space. percent — innovated to remain competitive.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Shoppers had new opportunities to buy groceries without having to walk through the aisles of their local supermarkets or wait in line at checkout counters this year, as grocers rolled out digital innovations in shopping and payments. Personal Shopping Services. A customer can order at 5:00 p.m., pick up at 5:30 p.m.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Good and accommodation merchants are not alone in pursuing innovations to keep competitive. Many merchants across all studied markets pursue innovation to remain competitive. Different merchant types placed higher emphasis on other innovations. Accommodation merchants perform like those from health and beauty. and the 31.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers. Indiana University will have them this month.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Once one gets outside of the top 25 banks in the U.S., The Soft Middle in Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

It was once the case that innovation — no matter the industry — took time. Thus, when it comes to payments, the name of the game is innovation on the fly. Innovation in real time, you might say, is key in bringing new technologies and new methods to markets. Judicious planning. Trial and error. How to scale with speed?

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

In a press release, the credit card company said that with the upgrade, financial institutions and merchants would be better able to authenticate consumers and reduce fraud on transactions made via a mobile or desktop browser, app or connected devices. As part of the upgrade, Visa said it was enhancing its systems to support 3-D Secure 2.0,

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

With commercial credit cards historically viewed as a payment vehicle for businesses to make one-off purchases for the office or while on a business trip, the small business credit card has yet to catch up to adoption volumes seen by other payment methods like direct bank transfers in the B2B payments space. In markets like the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

China’s UnionPay , the payment card issuer, is gearing up to roll out branded cards in the U.K. According to a report in the Financial Times , with UnionPay facing increased competition in its home market from the likes of Alipay and WeChat Pay , it is setting its sights on expansion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Two years of tracking by the Innovation Readiness Playbooks has clearly demonstrated that financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes are interested in innovating – and avidly looking to invest in the initiatives that delight their customers. Some players are innovating, but most seem unable to bridge the gap.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In addition, SmartPesa is rolling out an Android point-of-sale (POS) system, and South Africa’s Mugg & Bean (M&B) is launching support for Samsung Pay. Vipps, which offers the BankAxept national payment system, is owned by banks in Norway, and processes eight out of 10 card purchases made in stores in the country.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

Not only that, but 82 percent of travel companies innovate to combat the loss of customers, and 36 percent of travel companies expect innovations to decrease costs. Other areas of innovation and disruption for the travel industry are heavily focused around payments. That includes the payment of airline fares.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Though commercial card innovation has recently hit an acceleration point, there is still plenty of room for progress. Power took one key friction point of the small business (SMB) credit card market to task. “Basics like credit card terms, and benefits and services, are the lowest-scoring factors in our study.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. In addition, DBI has more than 1 million consumers in 50 states, and with its account administration tech and services, it’s a key player in the consumer-facing healthcare system. In 2018 alone, the company generated $100 million in revenue.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

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. financial system: a new normal is headed our way. A New Normal For Payroll.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In today’s top news, The Clearing House (TCH) is increasing the value limit for general transactions on the TCH-operated real-time payments (RTP) network, Verizon is working with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card and the United States is moving to get tough on the sale of counterfeit merchandise through eCommerce.

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