PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

19) that it is supplying Intesa Sanpaolo, the Italian bank, with what it said is the first Mastercard biometric contactless payment card. In a press release , Gemalto said it will test an EMV contactless biometric card for Europe via a pilot program backed by Intesa Sanpaolo and Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

17), for instance, Square announced the Square Card , a business debit Mastercard aimed at helping businesses manage cash flow. The motivations behind that new card help illustrate why other companies see Square as a threat. The new debit card can be used anywhere Mastercard debit cards are accepted.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2018

17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. Mastercard will work with Adyen, Digital River, Stripe, Square, Worldpay and its own eponymous gateway services to bring tokens to retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

Just about a decade ago, the checkout process at a retail shop was pretty simple — customers would wait in line to give their purchases to the cashier, who stood at a fixed point in the store, and then pay using cash or a credit card. Oh, how the times have changed.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

This is a difficult time to be an entrepreneur — the retail landscape is shifting under our feet, and the old way of doing things no longer works,” Shopify said in a statement. Dubbed “Reunite,” it gave attendees a glimpse into updates and new products designed to help entrepreneurs boost profits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Goldman Extends $10B In Apple Card Credit In First Month. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? customers had $736 million in loan balances at the end of September, though it’s not clear how that compares with other credit cards, as Bloomberg said banks do not break out performance by individual cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

17) that it is working with Kiwibank, New Zealand’s largest prepaid issuer, to expand the capabilities of the bank’s prepaid gift and travel card programs and to roll out a robust set of features to build a best-in-class payment experience. ”

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

I remember when my mother stopped shopping at one department store because they wouldn’t give her a charge card in her own name, but another store would on their private-label charge card. While that sounds new and exciting, remember that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Google’s Caesar Sengupta , general manager of payments, and Josh Woodward , director of product management, said the revamp aids visibility, streamlines transactions and lets users track a trail of payments. consumers now make purchases within retailer apps — a significant jump from the 21 percent who did so pre-pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This new software expands the user experience and expands digital capabilities of ATMs,” said Frank Hauck , president and general manager, NCR Corporation , in a statement. “In In the future of banking, we see the ATM becoming a dynamic, digital, self-service platform on which banks can deploy new services quickly.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

“ACH payments have become increasingly popular for many consumers; a trend accelerated this year during the COVID-related shift toward ecommerce and away from brick-and-mortar retail experiences,” said Lowell Putnam, Plaid’s head of partnerships, in a statement. businesses paying millions of 1099 or contract workers, Galileo said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is poised to change the end user experience of corporates as they navigate the daily challenges of cash flow management, supply chain activity and the need to become digital-first. The accounts are to be held by Evolve Bank & Trust.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Visa and Natixis Payments have launched Xpollens, a complete white label “Payments in a Box” service for retailers, corporations and Fintechs. Xpollens helps organizations integrate the whole range of payment services, from cards to instant payments, according to a press release. However, offering new payments services is complex.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

The service will be enabled by Microsoft Azure , the cloud computing platform designed to build, test, deploy and manage applications through its data centers. The goal for Mastercard going forward, he said, is to determine how to expand its reach worldwide, into places where card products haven’t been before. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The corporate expense management market doesn’t look like it once did. The commercial card and expense management market is yet another space in which collaboration between FIs and FinTechs has proved key to driving innovative tools – especially as corporates grow weary with the traditional legacy services their banks provide.

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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. What’s been largely left behind, however, is a payments experience that moves just as seamlessly between those worlds. Sang Ahn, VP and general manager of Samsung Pay U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

According to The Next Web , Jared Rice defrauded investors out of $4 million after he claimed the company would become the “first decentralized banking platform” — offering FDIC -insured accounts and banking services, as well as Visa -branded credit cards and other cryptocurrency services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Services offered include price protection and free food delivery, once users reach certain spending thresholds. For many consumers, perks are a key driver of their credit card choice, whether it’s airline miles, cash-back or points that can be redeemed for a variety of items. They want benefits that fit their lifestyle.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Consumers know it as the fingerprint or facial recognition on credit cards. But for eCommerce biometrics focuses almost exclusively on validating user identity. For example, different technologies distinguish user identity in different ways. It is a low-cost security check for website managers as well as consumers.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It’s the decoupled debit card. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards. Inspired, retailers set out to develop their own products with those same benefits: debit functionality, rich consumer rewards and a lower interchange fee burden when consumers used them to shop their stores. And what was the product?

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CB Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

Digital banking startups — or challenger banks — have gained traction over the past few years by bringing retail banking services mobile. We define challenger banks as fintech companies leveraging technology and software to digitize and streamline retail banking. Banks in Fintech: what’s ahead in 2018. First Name.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

All users of the CVS Pharmacy mobile can now use CVS Pay. By linking their ExtraCare card with CVS Pay, the scan at checkout will process all ExtraCare deals, apply any new rewards and manage the payment transaction. Customers can also use CVS Pay at the drive-thru by sharing a pickup number found within the mobile app.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The rates refer to the rates that United States-based merchants pay to accept Visa cards. A genuine sea of change is rising in terms of how merchants want to interact with their shoppers and how consumers want to manage their transactions. Stripe Powers Digital, In-Store Payments For Lightspeed Retail, Restaurant Customers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Credit and debit card penetration in markets like Mexico is still low compared to the U.S. For example, so many of Mexico’s consumers who might be interested in purchasing their products may not have credit or debit cards to pay for their purchases.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Consumers are increasingly interested in buy now, pay later products, which are cutting into credit card usage. of buy now, pay later users experience credit score degradation. It may be easier to use a credit card if a consumer isn’t certain that they will keep the product.”. Illustration by Wenjin Chen/Getty Images.

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FICO

MAY 18, 2023

The innovative pay-as-you-go solution allows Dock’s clients, including banks, fintechs, and retailers, to intercept fraudulent transactions and protect their operations, while also improving the user experience. The fraud prevention solution is based on FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager and FICO® Customer Communication Services (CCS).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

And, while customers have a favorable view of many of these technologies, QSR managers tend to have more of an old-school outlook. That is, over 90 percent of QSR managers see the counter as positive and satisfying experiences per the PYMNTS Restaurant Readiness Index , but only 62.5 percent of customers. percent of customers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. LendingClub makes unsecured personal loans to consumers, mostly to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and more recently to refinance auto loans.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

That night, the “name that tune”-style game was given the Alexa treatment, adding voice functionality to the user experience. The tech giant recently added voice shopping functionality to Google Assistant, meaning users can now order items via Google Home.

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Celent Banking

JULY 22, 2016

At Celent, we have been talking about the "battle of rails" in payments, i.e. between pull-based payments running on the cards infrastructure, and push-based payments, such as Zapp, built on top of new faster/ real-time payment networks. As I discussed in another recent blog , Visa controls 97% of the debit card market in the UK.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

EMV payments have made it more difficult for criminals to steal using fake credit cards or by hacking into payment terminals software. But criminals are trying to find ways to take advantage of “card-not-present transactions,” where a user pays online or over the telephone.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

In the soon to be released What’s Going On In Banking study, Cornerstone ’s Ron Shevlin shows that both bank and credit union execs are most fearful of big tech (Amazon Prime, Venmo, Apple Card) primarily because of their great data reach and ability to drive customer experience. Banking organizations remain over-managed and under-led.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If not, you probably will soon, since it just teamed up with 7-Eleven to bring surcharge-free ATM access to 8,000 of the convenience chain’s retail locations. MoneyPass, a network of Elan Financial Services , provides ATM and debit card processing solutions for financial institutions, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) and retailers.

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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. The solution has been secure, but not perfect: In May, an HSBC customer’s non-identical twin managed to breach his brother’s account by mimicking his twin’s voice. Santander U.K. We are excited to be the first U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

It’s similar in those segments of the merchant/retailer community that were slower to adopt contactless payments and also digital payments, where circumstances have really forced the acceleration of their adoption as well.”. The New Samsung Pay Card . But the Samsung Pay Card powered by Curve works differently.

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