PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Commercial cards continue to explore more use cases to optimize spend for businesses, from accounts payable (AP) to employee travel and expense management. Increasingly, the corporate card industry is also looking at ways to take advantage of the unique challenges in particular industries.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

Bank is mobilizing Mastercard commercial card products, the financial institution (FI) announced on Wednesday (April 11). Bank Corporate Travel Card said it will now support mobile payments for corporate customers using business travel cards that run on the Mastercard network. In a press release , U.S. According to U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Visa seeks to buy Plaid — as its CEO said — as an ‘insurance policy’ to neutralize a ‘threat to our important US debit business,’” the Justice Department said in its lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court. Department of Justice sued Visa on Thursday (Nov. 5) to block its planned $5.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

Fiserv, a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced Wednesday (April 11) it has named Kim Crawford Goodman president of card services. Goodman also held executive leadership positions at Dell and was a partner at Bain & Company, the management consulting firm.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Also participating in the round were Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. “We The funding is being earmarked to launch credit cards-as-a-service in the U.S. and elsewhere as the BaaS platform grows its global footprint.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 17, 2022

As technology buyers, banking executives need to up their game on tech purchases and technology performance management. For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. And you may ask yourself, ‘How do I work this?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Retail dispute management system Chargeback announced Monday (June 8) that it has closed a $6.6 Chargeback said the money will accelerate its growth and ability to help online and offline retailers decrease credit card disputes, achieve higher win rates and retain more revenue. million Series A1 funding round.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Commercial payments technology company WEX announced on Monday (Dec. 16) that it has reached an agreement to manage Valero Energy ‘s fleet fuel card program, according to a press release. Their agreement builds upon an existing card acceptance partnership between WEX and Valero, the firms noted.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled a new prepaid card, dubbed the Razer Card, now in its test phase. The Singapore-based financial technology company said the move is part of its goal of establishing “the world’s first global youth bank.”. The rewards setup will be “ gamified” and use an in-app system.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Nium , a financial technology platform, has become a Visa issuer in Australia as part of its membership in Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program. Singapore-based Nium said that with this business arrangement, it will be able to shorten the time for issuing a Visa card to just four to six weeks.

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Bobsguide

JUNE 22, 2022

Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software, have announced a partnership to further strengthen Interswitch’s payment card processing capacity in Africa.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

An employee’s accidental use of her corporate card to pay for groceries isn’t a crime, but it does fall under the heading of “ friendly fraud ,” which creates friction for the accounting department. Weddings and events are another sector experimenting with card-based spend management efforts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Every particular concern must be deftly managed within budget, too, which can be tricky when unforeseen expenses arise. Having the right spend management tools is not a luxury in event planning but rather an element critical to success. The firm uses a well-known corporate card provider to support its team’s expense needs.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 25, 2024

What have your Credit Card ’s ancestors been up to? There’s probably nothing new we can tell you about the Credit Card. Today, we’re aiming at remedying that, so we’re all left with a new-found respect for our spend-friends and who knows, maybe it’ll just inspire us to go find the right Credit Card to fit our finances!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Commercial card technology company Cardlay , based in Denmark, has announced a partnership with Mastercard Europe, expanding the FinTech’s reach throughout the continent via Mastercard’s network of issuing banks. Reports in Finextra said on Monday (Jan. Reports in Finextra said on Monday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Banks and legacy financial institutions (FIs) might be wise to study what disruptive technologies recently did to the print publishing industry, taxi cabs, network TV, and a host of other businesses that were disintermediated with little to no warning in recent years. Mobile Cards: Make or Break? Follow the Smart(phone) Crowd.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

ChargeAfter , the buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology company, has partnered with Visa to integrate its Cybersource payment management platform, the company announced on Wednesday (July 15). The strategic partnership enables Cybersource’s merchants worldwide to access Visa’s eCommerce credit card payment system.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

In a move that extends payroll card portfolios to serve small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), global business payments company FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. has acquired payroll card provider SOLE Financial. I’m confident FLEETCOR’s long-term vision will provide tremendous value to organizations and their employees.”.

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Abrigo

JULY 5, 2020

Key Takeaways Credit unions participating in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) found that the right technology helped them serve business members when they needed help and also gain new members. Technology can facilitate delivery on credit unions' brand promise of relationship-based services. get started.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Commerce-enabling technology provider First Data and international bankcard company UnionPay International announced Tuesday (Oct. 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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard and Norwegian financial technology (FinTech) company EedenBull have agreed to expand their partnership to the Asia Pacific region, the firms announced Monday (June 29). Based in Norway, Scotland and Singapore, EedenBull calls itself a “technology-agnostic innovation company built by banking, payment and technology professionals.”.

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FICO

AUGUST 18, 2021

This post explores the credit card trends in the US, UK and Canada, reviewing regional differences and focussing on the impact of the pandemic. Lenders will need to react swiftly and strategically to potentially quick changing economic conditions and optimise the use of the data available to them. Canada is nearly double the US.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

corporate expense management solutions provider Fraedom , which was recently acquired by Visa , will be providing its commercial card technology to U.S.-based “Partnering with Fraedom will enable us to bring significant benefits to our business customers across the U.S.,”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Cash will likely outlive us all. Don’t even get us started on coins, all those pieces of metal just taking up space.) Better Cash Management? Data about the cash deposited into the recycler goes to Kickfin, which, in sync with its banking partner, credits the merchant for that deposit, using ACH for next-day disbursement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Bottomline Technologies on Thursday (May 2) posted a 12 percent year-over-year gain in subscription and transaction revenue for the payment services provider’s fiscal third quarter 2019, which ended March 31. Those revenues hit $75.5 million, according to Bottomline’s latest financial release. Overall revenue reached $106.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Telematics company Airmax says fleet card fraud will be “a thing of the past” thanks to technology. 8), Airmax released the results of a 2017 survey that highlighted the potential for fleet managers to save through miles per gallon (mpg) monitoring. Commercial Fleet Sales Manager Scott McGregor in a statement at the time.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

PSCU , a payments credit union service organization (CUSO), announced that Westby Co-Op Credit Union (WCCU) has become a part of the cooperative for credit card processing support and services. WCCU, which is based in Wisconsin, tapped PSCU after a comprehensive review process. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Synchrony , the financial services company, announced news on Wednesday (May 2) that customers can now use voice commands to manage their Amazon.com Store Card. In a press release , Synchrony said it is making this happen via a new skill for Alexa, dubbed the Store Card skill.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The prevalence of CNP fraud, once the bread and butter of the enterprising cybercriminal, has steadily crept downward each year alongside other forms that game customers’ credit card numbers. Cybercriminals are still masters of a thriving trade, though. That review process could take a little while,” he noted. “So,

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FICO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Inflation is easing as funding rates have risen to 15-year highs, but the technology sector is beginning to lay off employees in masses – through 2022 low levels of unemployment kept the U.S. Increasing of the fed funding rates leads to higher interest rates when seeking new credit or carrying balances on credit cards.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. The most commonly used physical identifiers for authentication are fingerprints and facial recognition scanning. million this year and 94.4 million in 2024.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

Today’s coverage includes news about faster chip card transactions, along with brightening prospects for retail and technology in the U.S. Square Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US. can now process chip cards in just two seconds on Square Reader , for contactless and chip, and Square Register.

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FICO

AUGUST 16, 2022

US Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: 2022 Q2 Update. FICO Community releases quarterly US Bankcard Industry Benchmarking trends. The following credit card performance figures represent a national sample of approximately 130 million accounts that comprise FICO® Advisors’ Risk Benchmarking solution. Saxon Shirley.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. Give us 12 minutes and 36 seconds of reading time, and we will distill 106.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

The brand-new Workforce Spend Management Tracker, a PYMNTS and PEX collaboration, covers the development of new workforce spend solutions and the ways they work to offer financial flexibility and transparency to both field-based workers and accounting departments. Deep Dive: Paper Checks Fall As Corporate Cards Soar.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Founded in 2012, Payworks offers a variety of omnichannel payment providers a next-generation payment gateway technology, operated in the cloud and provided in a Software-as-a-Service model. We believe that Payworks has both: a great team and an offering that can have real impact in the fast-changing world of card payments.”.

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