PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

Apple Pay’s competition in China just got a bit steeper, as Samsung has officially rolled out Samsung Pay in the region. Samsung announced the launch of its mobile payments service that is now available through a deal with China UnionPay — the same method Apple used to bring its mobile payments option into market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Use of a charge card similarly grew year over year from 23 percent to 31 percent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Mastercard announced Tuesday (April 4) that Mastercard cardholders from select banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will now be able use the Samsung Pay service to make payments in a quick and secure way. Mastercard said it has been actively driving contactless payments in the market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Find out how retailers are enabling purchases in stores as well as through apps, smart speakers and smart watches with new and innovative payment methods: A little more than eight in 10 — or 81 percent — of consumers travel to a store to make a purchase. And if a customer uses Samsung Pay to buy those offers.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2020

As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech solutions. Morgan Enhances Virtual Cards Via Marqeta. Bottomline Rolls Out Open Banking Service.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

PricewaterhouseCoopers — after 83 consecutive years of tabulating the Academy Awards without incident — managed to accidentally put the wrong card in Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway’s hands for the Best Picture award and … well the rest is YouTube history. PwC is now called Probably Wrong Card!”. Best B2B Innovation. Silver: Alipay.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2017

After all, consumers are not ready to give up their cash and card-filled wallets quite […]. In fact, a recent Accenture study suggests that 56% of North American consumers are aware of mobile payment services, but only 19% use their mobile wallet regularly.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

That’s why payments innovation isn’t just about delivering a solution, but delivering one that can create efficiency and reduce risk in a secure manner. ML: As executive vice president and CIO, I am responsible for the technology and security solutions we provide and how they are positioned in the marketplace.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the press release, the Kroger app will be compatible with “Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Fitbit Pay, mobile banking apps and contactless chip cards, underpinned by near-field communication (NFC) technology.” So far, the contactless pay app has been introduced in 61 QFC stores.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry in which technology shapes the way payments happen — and vice versa. We could have talked about real-time payments 25 years ago,” said Norton, “but then it would have been prohibitively expensive and difficult to do from the technology perspective.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

The New Samsung Pay Card . As digital payments and digital commerce have expanded their penetration among consumers and merchants alike, the greater usage is pushing the pace of innovation in the segment. In a typical digital-wallet offering, one registers their card credentials into the wallet directly.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 20, 2017

The bank launched BMO Harris Bank Masterpass – a Mastercard-branded wallet – as well as Android Pay and Samsung Pay yesterday for “select” credit and debit cards. Just when you thought the digital wallet craze was left behind in 2016, in comes BMO with three new wallets. The wallets are Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

” Innovation Project 2016 — where hundreds of leaders across the payments, commerce, tech and security ecosystems joined together under one roof with one mission: navigating the balance between the leading and the bleeding edge. Especially when your talking innovations in payments. So, how did Day 2 end up?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

PNC Bank is linking its corporate clients with a new mobile solution that links users of its Visa commercial cards into mobile wallet solutions Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay. But the move is also part of a broader effort to keep corporate payments up to speed with consumer payment innovation, the financial institution said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

Visa said that it is enabling payments on the smartwatch, thus allowing tap and pay functionality, similar to other devices out in the market from the likes of Samsung and Fitbit. As noted in The Verge, the Garmin Connect app helps manage users’ card accounts and payments are protected by passcodes.

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Take the latest service from Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, that is unleashing its rival to Apple Pay for its smartphone handsets. But Samsung Pay won’t just be for handheld devices – a version will also be available on its range of smart TVs. Samsung Pay for TV works in much the same way. That’s it!”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

Samsung Pay’s European Debut. On June 2, Samsung Pay officially launched in Spain, bringing the mobile wallet into its first European country. Samsung Pay is the first mobile payment service of its kind to be launched in Spain, giving it a head start in the market over Apple Pay and Android Pay. million users in 2016.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 25, 2017

The payments processor developed a way to bring payments into VR, utilizing the technology to create the same experience of tapping a card on an EMV terminal—except, the card is virtual, […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece. The (Advertising) Haves And Have-Nots.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Apple's new phone launched at a time when China's economy has been rebounding from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and as the country has become increasingly nationalistic in regards to technology amid trade tensions with the U.S. in recent years. Raising the coverage would require widespread building of new base stations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Mastercard: Inside The Samsung Pay ‘Super Card’. With digital commerce and digital payments growing their penetration among both merchants and individuals, the increased usage is accelerating the cadence of innovation. AmEx: Why It’s Go-Time For Automating B2B AR Functions.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Our recent webinar — The State of Fintech Q2 2020: Funding Rebound Reveals the Next Leg of Fintech Innovation — highlighted key fintech trends and deals from the second quarter of 2020, including the rise of embedded fintech applications and demand for digital banking services. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20.

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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. The role of Alex Jimenez, senior vice president and director of digital and payments innovation at the $7.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Network International is bringing Google Pay acceptance to retailers in the UAE, allowing shoppers to tap into Android payments at merchants that use near-field communication (NFC) technology, according to reports. And in the U.K., Home Leisure Direct is rolling out a pool dining table that accepts contactless payments, iNTERGAME reported.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2016

“We want to be in an open wallet ecosystem,” Hari Gopalkrishnan, client-facing platforms technology CIO at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told Bank Innovation. After all, what Bank of America is focused on is getting consumers to use its cards to spend — regardless of which wallet it’s on. It’s an open wallet strategy.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

The moves comes as consumers expect excellent product experiences as compelling new business models and product-level innovations come to market. That statistic comes as half of all online spending will come from mobile over the next two to three years, according to Jon Rosner, vice president of product strategy, card services at Fiserv.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

This increasingly sophisticated group poses a growing and costly headache to those who value the model, forcing businesses to spend billions on fraud-fighting technologies. The latter method works by sending a cardholder an email, advertising the next-generation Samsung or iPhone for just $1, for example. Data-Rich Defenses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

face pressure to step up technological advances, where inexorable movement toward digital and consumer-focused services can foster a disconnect that, left unaddressed, will turn loyalists fickle. That’s reflected in data (this is Data Drivers, after all) from the Credit Union Innovation Index , a joint effort between PSCU and PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To that end, 7-Eleven said earlier this week that is debuting scan-and-go options at 14 of its Dallas-based stores, with the goal of bringing that technology to additional locations through 2019. Scan-and-go technology fit into the retailer’s overall business strategy by addressing a specific problem, said Singh.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Similar worries extend to card-based payments, too, as the virus can remain active on plastic surfaces for up to three days. The restaurant industry has leveraged these payment technologies for years, but their adoption has not been quick. The average consumer typically makes six to 12 in-person transactions during that timeframe.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 26, 2016

Bank of America said “No” to innovation labs last year. “We want to be in an open wallet ecosystem,” Hari Gopalkrishnan, client-facing platforms technology CIO at Bank of America Merrill Read More. This year, while rivals JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Co.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

With increasingly more global connections and advancing technology to support them, consumers around the world expect to be able to access digital commerce solutions quickly, easily and conveniently. Samsung, meanwhile, announced it would bring its mobile payment platform to China. The world just keeps getting smaller.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

On a scale from one to 10, the average SMB scored themselves just above a six when it comes to adopting new payment technology, according to the latest data from the SMB Technology Adoption Index™. Yet, only 13 percent of those same merchants said they were willing to innovate when it comes to their payment technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Payment security and IoT technology remain an ongoing concern for credit card and smartphone companies, for example, as they explore innovative ways to protect sensitive customer data from cybercriminals. Some of the technologies include retinal scanning and selfie payment systems. News highlights from the IoT world.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Though the technologies still haven’t reached a level of mainstream usage or acceptance, that hasn’t slowed down the number of companies and sectors looking to utilize VR/AR to transform customer experiences. Matt Ozvat, head of developer integrations at Vantiv , and Josh Mather, technology evangelist at Vantiv, whose Vantiv O.N.E.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

But playing and delivery methods keep changing, with Ohio of all places — no offense to the Buckeye State, home to multiple presidents and the Wright Brothers’ aerodynamic innovations — accounting for some of the latest developments. Consumers go Buehler’s , Giant Eagle or Kroger locations to buy the lottery card.

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