PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Edenred is acquiring Mint ’s payroll card portfolio to bolster its leadership in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Edenred announced Thursday (Jan. The 600,000 people using Mint payroll cards will now be able to tap a full suite of new services with the C3 card and app. Edenred’s operations focused mainly on Dubai.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These three main segments of the Fleet Solution are said to provide better control over operations and increased protection against fraud. Comprehensive management systems with advanced telematics are all the more important for optimizing fleet operation expenses for growing businesses. percent by 2025.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Do FIs want to navigate card programs through that?”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S., Gas stations are encouraging it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift. FinTechs Help Main Street Find Its Footing. It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

That so many SMBs are uncertain about whether they can survive — despite having access to emergency reserves — speaks to how dire the pandemic has been for Main Street businesses. Our research shows the greatest share of SMBs have ceased operations for now to weather the COVID-19 outbreak’s resultant economic downturn, with 30.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Moreover, all demographic groups are far more likely to use phone than email or chat to reach card service departments — and this method is associated with higher satisfaction and resolution rates. Our data suggests that card customer service departments must be equipped to address these fundamental concerns.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job. In the U.S.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

On the social aspect of banking, Banco Colpatria in Colombia offers credit cards to individuals using Lenddo’s social scoring. Galicia MOVE includes a savings account, a debit card and a credit card. What about banks? Banks are trying; not only by making interesting bets around digital but also social. Change or die.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Although they operate with a greater level of autonomy, charter schools are still expected to be accountable for their expenses and demonstrate transparency. Spend Management Cards. Like other small organizations, one- or two-school charter operations may rely on petty cash for purchases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

In a report, Business Insider said Costco cards saw more than $52 billion in purchase sales during the first six months of the cards and more than $6 billion in loan growth. branded cards business growth. While Citi is enjoying a lot of growth since taking over the Costco card, it’s also resulting in an increase in costs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

And in eCommerce, a majority of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have added new digital functions amid the pandemic, while in corporate payments, B2B transactions are shaking free of hardcopy methods as firms have moved operations online. In auto sales, CarLotz, Inc. , All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Aquilina previously spent almost eight years working in commercial card products at Mastercard prior to joining the Portland, Maine-based WEX. Bank and was in charge of fleet card programs. “As In addition, Dylan Jones will move from payments strategy operations leader to VP of operations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Digital payments — and specifically, card-not-present transactions — may be convenient for consumers, but can impact the very operations of the retailers serving them. As a result, Visa and PYMNTS found that 76 percent of the surveyed Main Street businesses reported having cash flow shortages. The Increasingly Digital SMB .

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Our surveys found that like most consumers and businesses, Main Street SMB owners thought in March that the lockdowns would last two or maybe three months tops. The PYMNTS study found that sluggish sales figures have cut cash flow for Main Street SMBs hard as the pandemic grinds on. But even then, 58.4 percent of U.S. Cash Flow Woes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

Oberthur Technologies (OT), a provider of embedded security software products and services, has rolled out a multi-payment dual interface card. This card, developed on OT’s Global Platform, is the first of its type that includes new features from both Visa and MasterCard. dual debit and prepaid migration.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Carding shops offer bulk sales on compromised payment card data. Carding shops are underground marketplaces that traffic in compromised payment card data. These marketplaces facilitate the movement of compromised payment card data from hackers to fraudsters, often across faraway geographies. Fraud Prevention.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Primark, a European clothing dealer, has reported that credit card skimming equipment was found on “a limited number of card payment machines” in two of its U.S. Primark has only be operating U.S. It did, however, note that security was its main priority, as was transparently disclosing details as they emerge.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

The company, founded within Paris-based startup studio eFounders, allows corporate managers to create physical or virtual commercial cards for employee spend; the tool then provides a platform for professionals to manage the activity on those cards and assess expenses.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The main objective of CoE will be to launch the MySpend reporting solution through MDSL, which can be used to help SMBs track usage of mobile devices and better understand their billing activities. Empowering Solar Technicians With Spend Cards. Things are also looking bright for the U.S. About the Playbook.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In today’s highly interconnected ecosystem, businesses rely on many other companies to keep their operations running smoothly. The timeliness of B2B payments raises the stakes for all parties involved, as a missed or delayed payment can ripple across the network. Deep Dive: Tapping AI To Tackle A $4.2T Fraud Epidemic.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

And as reported in the Financial Times , banks that are relatively more dependent on lending activities to keep operations afloat are facing challenges that have not been seen since the financial crisis and recession of more than a decade ago. Cash crunches, of course, make carrying debt all the more burdensome.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

PYMNTS recently caught up with Ben Morris, founder and chief pedicab officer at Coaster Pedicab, which owns and operates bicycle taxi companies in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., That’s why many pedicab companies and drivers are increasingly embracing mobile payment acceptance solutions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

The leak involved 90,000 customers’ names, addresses and credit card numbers. The loyalty program, Priceless Specials, was operated by a third-party service provider and was shut down after the company first became aware of the breach. A survey by EHI Retail Institute showed that last year, card payments made up 48.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can accept payments via a mobile program or touch-free card reader with QuickAccept and get the funds immediately. Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral. Main Streets will have to change to receive the social proof and vibe that made them so successful.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Consumer transactions and auto loans were the main driver of Wells’ Q1 performance. Credit card transactions hit $18.3 “In addition, our continued de-risking of the balance sheet and consistent level of profitability have resulted in capital levels well above our regulatory minimum.”. billion. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Promotion abuse scams occur when individuals take undue advantage of rewards, sales or other promotions offered by merchants, which can prove especially costly to businesses operating within leaner margins during the pandemic. is projected to reach $794.5 billion by the end of the year, marking 32.4 percent year-over-year growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

This made the need to optimize operational inefficiencies secondary,” he said. Online merchant payments became popular with the advent of the internet and with them, credit cards have been widely used as a form of dynamic contract,” said Ginesta. He said that technology can help relieve some of the pain points of B2B travel payments.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

In order to load funds to your account, you need to buy a scratch card from an agent or at a telco branch (agents are people, whom you can find near almost any bus stop or shopping centre). Fintech development in Rwanda is driven by Telcos.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2017

Between keeping business users happy, integrating new technologies into the app, and preparing for an upcoming consumer rollout, Curve’s new head of operations, Rona Ruthen, has a lot to do.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Keeping customers' digital payment data safe and secure is a critical part of doing business in the digital economy, and following Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance guidelines is an effective way for firms to accomplish this. Carlson pointed to HealPay’s over-the-phone card payment compliance offerings as an example.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Another term to know is “carding” — that’s the catch-all world criminals use for crimes that involve stolen payment card data , Rogers explained. By monitoring the Dark Web, technology and experts can determine, for instance, that a batch of stolen card numbers came from a particular issuer. Early Warning Value.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Developers can literally come in, sign up and start building a card product,” said Gardner. The typical way of building a card product, by going to a bank and leveraging that bank’s platform, need no longer be the norm.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Noting that 86 percent of SMBs said they were at least partially open as of August, up from 79 percent in May, “many SMBs are soldiering on … instituting myriad operational changes to protect their communities and to ease customers’ fears about infection. Fears Linger, But Main Street SMBs Soldier On.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

FIS has partnered with The Clearing House (TCH), the operator of the nation’s payments system infrastructure, to provide instant settlements to small and mid-sized banks and credit unions (CUs) and their customers. Mastercard Expands Digital Card Program To Include Instant Access, eWallet.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio , the largest in the country, is entering the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) space to compete alongside rivals, reports said on Monday (Jan. Yet, as a telecom operator, it will be the first to offer a UPI service, and the second among payment banks to offer the service. However, as of Monday (Jan.

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