Chris Skinner

JULY 19, 2017

I just attended an EFMA conference where the opening presentation talked about the most innovative banks in the world. Penny, the New Mint Penny is an app that examines behaviour around your bank accounts and credit cards to alert you of any issues, such as data breaches. These are the ones I quite liked, so it’s not exhaustive.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Consumers are also changing how they pay for their purchases, with a recent study finding that debit card spend was up 11.7 Consumers today are especially likely to use their debit cards for their eCommerce purchases or to make in-store purchases with mobile wallets, and card-not-present (CNP) transactions represented 43.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

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. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And online shopping and digital fraud are increasing simultaneously, but merchants can take steps to ensure that debit-based card-not-present (CNP) transactions are kept safe. 87%: Estimated share of debit cards that will be equipped for contactless payments by 2022. All this, Today in Data. 92%: Portion of U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

In Australia, the commercial card market is one example of how bureaucracy and legacy process have stifled access to important SMB financial services, despite a continued surge in banking innovation and digitization. “People don’t just want a physical credit card to swipe at the shops,” he said.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 21, 2019

To CARD.com, however, personalization actually refers to the look and feel of its debit card. Card's website presents the offering as an attempt to make banking fun ("CARD.com treats you as an individual who is cool like James Dean," the website states). Customers can […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The great digital shift is transforming credit cards into money management tools. Consumers want cards, and they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way," said Turner. Streamlining all of that data collection and transmission – and how it is presented to users – requires standards, said Turner.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Despite its demonetization policy, a thriving eCommerce climate, and continued growth in electronic and mobile payments, card penetration remains especially low in India, hovering at about 2 percent to 3 percent. It’s an interesting phenomenon, especially considering the path to corporate card adoption elsewhere.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2019

Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, said increased use of financial technology in the country could present regulators with their biggest hurdle since the financial crisis, according to a report by Bloomberg. “We A survey by EHI Retail Institute showed that last year, card payments made up 48.6

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

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. With innovation comes new challenges. The real estate market also recently saw innovations. Security vs. Friction. The Future of B2B Payments.

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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. We know the importance of cardholders’ preference for rapid self-service. Leavitt explained.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Safeguarding Card Details.

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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

JUNE 12, 2019

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. As for Walmart, its tech incubator has given birth to innovations and entrepreneurial efforts, as PYMNTS has covered. That’s the tech part.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2020

There is more than one way to drive commercial card innovation. For vendors, commercial card acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. For vendors, commercial card acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. Uber Jumps Into Biz Card Rewards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

For B2B payments , the pandemic may be the final nail in the coffin of the paper check — and the plastic commercial card, too. Traditionally, the benefits of card and check payments have resided on the buyer side of the equation at the expense of suppliers. The buyer uses a unique virtual card that is generated upon purchase approval.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

To help diners make the best use of their mobile devices to order meals, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are tapping into mobile innovations. From Dunkin’ Brands to Grubhub , QSRs and ordering platforms are driving innovation with mobile ordering technology.

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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 Cards — debit or credit — they say, are not really their core business. Cards are really auxiliary to my business,’ but to some extent that’s missing the point,” he said. “As

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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. There are two key aspects to the firm’s effort in reducing virtual card acceptance friction.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. X1 Card Raises $12 Million In Funding Round Led By Spark Capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

With payment bigwigs like Visa , Mastercard and American Express pushing further into the B2B payments space, commercial card adoption is being driven by more than growth in the number of card products available. “It streamlines payments and ease of paying by card,” Weiss told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

In the early days, adopters of the new technology mostly used it to check card spend at the end of the week or month. Bank officials touted the innovation as a form of insurance against fraud, and so far, it seems to be just that. At the same time, Santander had also moved beyond simple card spend checks. Santander U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 Regionally, the EMV chip card adoption rate is highest in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean (85.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

This month’s Deep Dive digs into the data that guides staffing agencies’ payroll disbursement decisions, including payroll cards ’ pros and cons. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. Checks have been common in temporary staffing, but disbursements to reloadable debit cards are drawing new interest. rose from 3.1 million by 2022.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Consumer for the end user.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Less than a year after launching its corporate virtual card solutions, Australia-based DiviPay has announced new funding from the venture capital arm of ANZ Bank. “What we found was it was very difficult for small businesses in Australia to get access to corporate cards,” Kniaz said. 28) said the VC unit, ANZi, led a $1.56

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JULY 22, 2019

RHB in Malaysia is introducing fraud protection cards with mini screens on the back that auto-generate new card verification value (CVV) numbers, according to reports. An algorithm will generate the new number for the card. Also, most of it was done when the card wasn’t even present, with either stolen PIN numbers or CVV codes.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the quick-service restaurant (QSR) word, mobile order-ahead. The effort to get that right on college campuses involves tokening credit card payments and providing seamless sign-in services. Program Challenges.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Mobile Innovation. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the QSR word, mobile order-ahead. The effort to get that right on college campuses involves tokening credit card payments and providing seamless sign-in services. Subscription Rising.

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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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JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 27, 2020

The CFPB has issued a new request for information about the credit card market that seeks comment on two related, but separate, reviews. The RFI includes citations to each of the CARD Act rules and further information about their content.). (The CARD Act Review. Section 610 Review. Debt relief and settlement.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For 2022, we saw a significant increase in compromised cards resulting from skimming activity. Total compromise cards were up 368% from 2021, with more than 161,000 impacted cards identified — nearly a 5x increase over 2021. Now that we have data from the entire year to review, we are seeing the alarming trend continue.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

Spending on credit cards will continue to grow, but any issuer that decides to take a breath, instead of crafting creative rewards and going after young consumers, runs the risk of being left behind. However, no trend is independent of human action, and issuers will have to work hard to ensure the health of their credit card offerings.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 20, 2017

One of the presentations I particularly enjoyed at the EFMA meeting was from Gürhan Çam, Senior Vice President- Digital Banking at DenizBank, Turkey. You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. First, there is the fastPay Wallet.

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