PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers often need additional coverage during peak holiday shopping periods, hospitals may need substitutes for nurses on paternity leave and construction companies might need to increase staff for sizable projects. The United States’ tight labor market exacerbates competitive tensions for such agencies, though. rose from 3.1

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

24) they had formed a new partnership to expand the acceptance of the UnionPay card in the U.S. to pay with their UnionPay chip, credit and debit cards at First Data merchant clients. We are extremely proud to work with an innovative partner like UnionPay International to expand their card acceptance throughout the United States.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

16), the retailer announced in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The purchase process will involve scanning QR codes on mobile devices, CVS stated in the release. Customers at 8,200 CVS Pharmacy locations can use PayPal and Venmo to pay for purchases contact-free starting Monday (Nov. The partnership.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In today’s top news in payments, Amazon applied for a patent for hand recognition software, and retail sales reached new heights thanks to record online spending. Mastercard: Holiday eCommerce Nearly 15 Pct Of Retail Sales. Retail sales hit record highs this holiday season, thanks to massive growth in online spending, which was up 18.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

These are some of the ways that innovators in the dining space are making it easier for consumers to order their favorite foods — and for restaurants to accept their orders: The projected value of online restaurant delivery sales by 2022, compared to $25 billion today, is $62 billion. Indiana University will have them this month.

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PYMNTS

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. The solution is.

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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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Most consumers in the United States stubbornly cling to their plastic payments, even as customers in other countries — see China — increasingly embrace at a steady rate mobile and other digital forms of payment. This could be due to the fact that, as many in fintech have stated, the card infrastructure in the.Read More.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. For the past five years, Holdaway was the president of Capital One’s Canadian division, and played a leading role in the company becoming the exclusive credit card issuer for Costco Wholesale Canada.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. 30 of this year in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.). “We In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Kroger Co.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Retailers are bringing omnichannel experiences to consumers by bridging the worlds of online and brick-and-mortar commerce through offerings such as buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS). Following that trend, Fast fashion apparel retailer rue21 recently announced it plans to bring the offering to more than 700 stores.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2020

Consumers are accustomed to using digital payment methods to make retail purchases. They can easily pay using digital wallets, cards-on-file or a wide variety of digital payment options online or in store, and transactions are expected to be fast, seamless and simple. This is a far different experience for everyday business purchases.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

The company uses new technologies aimed toward customer satisfaction, and attempts to attract customers at retail point of sale (POS) systems. “By We are excited to add Linq3’s innovative capabilities and proprietary technology to our portfolio of products and services. The product combines the gift card with the lotto entry.

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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. Retailing 2020: Five Things To Watch.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits. FICO’s Take on Debit Security.

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BankInovation

JULY 14, 2020

Afterpay is heading into brick-and-mortar stores in the United States. The Afterpay card — and what we’re bringing to the market — is a virtual, contactless Visa card that is stored either in customers’ Apple […]. The Australian point-of-sale lending company, which launched online in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

million in Bink, a startup that lets customers store and view all their loyalty cards on a phone, and also links payment cards to get points and rewards automatically, according to reports. British financial institution Barclays has invested $12.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Thirty-seven percent more consumers in the United States are working their full-time jobs from home than in 2019, whereas 27 percent more are performing gig jobs remotely. consumers are now doing their routine grocery shopping during the week as well as 153 million (51 percent) doing their retail shopping.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Debatably the most impactful payments innovation of recent years — and that’s saying something — BNPL is having a massive impact on retail, as evidenced by the proliferation of brands and the steady flow of venture capital to players that are defining the space. It’s hard to say which is the best part of buy now, pay later (BNPL).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The United States federal government issues Social Security benefits to recipients’ reloadable debit cards, for example, thus giving unbanked residents a faster, more secure alternative to receiving payments via paper checks. SMBs in the United Kingdom are also seeking easier ways to accept payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Studies showed that many consumers in the United States have begun tapping their debit cards more often for payments, for example, with one report finding that debit use rose about 6 percent year over year. Just 25 percent of consumers said the same regarding their credit cards during the same period.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In a podcast with Karen Webster, NMI CEO Vijay Sondhi delved into the ways that IoT is bringing everything — from kitchen appliances to voice-activated speakers to clothing and watches — into an ecosystem where payment providers (sometimes digital, sometimes rendered through cards) act as intermediaries in a process that makes the old new again.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

“We’re proud of our Canadian heritage, and we want to share a piece of that in the United States,” Felipe Athayde, executive vice president of Tim Hortons U.S. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay. Android Pay is not yet an option.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As Ron Shevlin , our chief research officer, blogged : “Banks need to stop playing innovation charades. In doing so, Bank of New Hampshire is leading a trend in the United States on an important issue. According to an American Banker article (subscription required), it takes 400 years for a debit card to degrade.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 24, 2023

One bright spot for the banking industry is Americans’ rising appetite for credit card debt. The Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 could negatively impact banks’ ability to generate interchange fees and reduce the amount of capital they issue, however. Every management fad has a life cycle, and the innovation fad is on its last legs.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Canada’s Lightspeed rolled out an offering for retailers based in the United States called Lightspeed Payments, the company said in an announcement. As it stands, the company’s Lightspeed platform already serves small to medium-sized retailers. The technology is said to process a payment in 0.3

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 23, 2018

I am pleased to announce that Chris Ford, an attorney who has led some of the country’s largest and most innovative Fintech and payment systems transactions, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group. He will be based in the firm’s Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Fifty-one percent of United States consumers stated in the most recent PYMNTS Disbursements Satisfaction Report that they would prefer to receive tax refunds, child support payments and other government payments through instant payout methods. State and local agencies sent out more than $1.3 government departments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

To help hockey players stay up to date on the latest sports equipment, eCommerce innovator the PenaltyBox offers subscription boxes comprised of a myriad of hockey essentials, from well-known brands to up-and-coming companies the PenaltyBox team tests themselves. For the future, the PenaltyBox is dabbling in the retail market.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. Retail offices: 85. But then again, Rockland Trust Co. is not typical. Alex Jimenez. Rockland, Mass.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s a problem that QuickFee, which originally started in Australia but has expanded to the United States, was created to solve. What QuickFee does is pay the professional services provider up front while putting a large, long-term hold on the client’s card. Let's give them credit cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But for all their remarkable success in the East, QR codes never really quite caught on in the United States or most of the rest of the West. It turned out Americans liked paying by card just fine and weren’t looking for a change. Beggars can apparently be choosers when mobile payments are thrown into the mix. Second, U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

PREIT (Philadelphia Real Estate Investment Trust) is curating its first eCommerce offering in what it says is a unique avenue to engage consumers from a multi-retail perspective. Each sMALL Surprises pack includes a selection of sensory toys/games, trendy accessories, sanitizing samples, activity cards, stickers and school supplies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retail has spent the last decade building bridges to the digital world so a new generation of digital consumers can move fluidly between them. Digital wallets are only as convenient as they are useful, and as a form factor substitute for plastic cards, consumers don’t feel they’re much of either. Samsung Pay Inc.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Elder financial exploitation and elder fraud are rising at an alarming rate as they continue to be serious crimes in the United States. A recent American Bankers Association Foundation research study (the ABA study) found that older Americans hold 70% of the deposited wealth in the United States. billion annually.

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