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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Kroger , one of America’s largest supermarket chains, is introducing a new mobile payment option and a loyalty rewards card, according to reports. The mobile payment option, called Kroger Pay, is available in any Kroger apps for both Android and iOS. Paying with the app and using one of Kroger’s cards will reap extra benefits.

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MARCH 27, 2019

T-Mobile announced Wednesday (March 27) a new program geared toward businesses, removing some of the fees charged by other mobile point of sale providers. T-Mobile also announced the T-Mobile for Business Marketplace, which provides a suite of business-critical mobile device management (MDM) and productivity software. “T-Mobile

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I think these technologies have a way to dramatically improve the mobile experience if you can take advantage of them. I find it frustrating when mobile apps aren’t nicely connected and they force me to spend extra effort to get things done. Have you heard about Mini Apps or Apple’s new App Clips feature?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) in mobile food ordering: tantalizing. As the Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker® states, “AI can be leveraged to analyze and tally credit card transactions similar to how banking transactions are examined. Advanced AI Makes Systems Smarter.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

At a time when the global pandemic and ensuing economic upheaval have blurred the boundaries between traditional means of payment, the CEO of global payment- and banking-solution provider i2c says the biggest business opportunity ahead will be in credit, with mobile becoming the biggest game-changer. All About Mobile. phenomenon.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The virtual card offers a strong value proposition for corporates in the form of enhanced security and control over spend. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies that are looking to launch offices in more countries and serve customers in new markets need to be able to easily pay staff in those locations. The November/December Smarter Payments Tracker ® examines how firms are putting payroll apps and prepaid cards to use to resolve frictions for their global workforces.

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MAY 31, 2017

Card processor TSYS is looking to heighten the security of mobile corporate payments. The company announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is enabling tokenization across its North American commercial card program, allowing businesses to let their own cardholders pay with a mobile device. To do this across all of our U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The corporate card can have a home in the digital wallet thanks to collaborations and technology platforms designed for card issuers. FinTech firm Nium has teamed with Southeast Asia neo-bank Aspire to enable a mobile payments feature with its cards. Marqeta Releases Tokenization-as-a-Service Product For Card Issuers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

23) announcement that the card is now available in France, Austria, Italy, Ireland and Spain beyond its current availability in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. percent cash back on all of their eligible spending with the debit card. The companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Mobile card services could be the Swiss Army knife of card management for consumers, because of the capabilities they can make easily accessible to the customer or business using them. There is a focus on the ability to turn cards off and off — I think even going back a few years we’ve seen that in banks’ advertising.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

11) to set up a bank card clearing business, granting access to a $27 trillion payments market, according to reports. . The People’s Bank of China said in a statement that it has approved an application by Mastercard’s Chinese joint venture to conduct bank card clearing business in the country.

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JUNE 16, 2020

The Minneapolis-based company has partnered with Mastercard to offer consumers access to their funds through their Branch Mastercard debit cards by adding it to mobile wallets, including Apple Pay, from the Branch mobile app. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This week's Commercial Card Innovation Tracker finds FinTechs and payment technology players like Mastercard, Visa and Nets embracing partnerships to roll out new corporate card solutions, including virtual commercial cards and small business credit cards designed to enhance spend management and help SMBs access credit during turbulent times.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Technavio, the research firm, is forecasting the global mobile card reader market will grow at a CAGR of close to 54 percent from 2017 to 2021. Chip-and-PIN technology came in second with 41 percent market share. Chip-and-PIN technology came in second with 41 percent market share.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing. Starting with the release of Apple Pay in 2014, there was a veritable rush of proprietary mobile wallets sent to market, a host of “. In the pre-pandemic world, mobile wallets struggled to get all the way up to a 1 percent penetration rate among consumers.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

CPI Card Group announced that it has launched Second Wave cards for markets including transit, hospitality, entertainment and more. First launched in September, Second Wave payment cards feature a core made with recovered ocean-bound plastic to reduce first-use plastic while diverting plastic waste from entering the ocean.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. The year 2020 began inconspicuously — but in a few short weeks, everything changed. Winter Blues.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Argentinian mobile payments company Ualá , bolstered by heavyweight investors, is expanding into merchant services, according to Bloomberg. The company is planning to debut mobile point-of-sales (mPOS) services, hoping to deploy 100,000 by the end of next year. million cards in Argentina since its 2017 debut. On Thursday (Dec.

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MARCH 18, 2020

That’s because things that seemed like add-ons when it came to digital banking even five years ago — card controls, instant virtual card issuance, self-service security, mobile deposit capture — are now table stakes. “In Cards — debit or credit — they say, are not really their core business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

The global mobile wallet market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 35.5 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to research firm Research and Markets. Mobile wallets are equipped with options like integration with coupons and tickets, which are making them highly popular among users.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Making mobile payments with a smartphone in Japan is more popular than ever, according to eMarketer, a New York-based market research company. It also predicts that by 2023 the number of mobile payment users will rise to nearly 28 million, 25 percent of the population.

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JUNE 24, 2020

plans to offer a Samsung Pay Card that will give customers “a simple and flexible way to control their money,” the company said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release. Noting the partnership with Curve “is the first of its kind in Europe for Samsung Pay,” the firm said the Samsung Pay Card will launch in the U.K. later this year. “We

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What is mobile POS? Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) companies are creating software or portable points-of-sale that enable a smartphone or tablet to function as a cash register. Businesses can receive payments instantly by downloading a mobile app that connects a smartphone or tablet to a card reader. hbspt.forms.create({.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Perhaps the one bright spot has been the surge in mobile ordering, with customers’ use of restaurant apps skyrocketing and helping restaurants make up for some of the income they have lost to pared-back dine-in sales. Around The Mobile Order-Ahead World. Boston Market On The Fraud-Fighting, Customer Service-Enhancing Power Of AI.

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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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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In countries where the use of cards is less prevalent, other digital payment methods, particularly mobile wallets, are proliferating, changing the payments landscape rapidly and radically, says Standard Chartered's Tarek Elyafi.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Germany e-mobility payments company pay33 has partnered with embedded finance provider Swan to launch the first European payment-enabled mobility card in the form of a white-label app for the e-mobility market.

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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. Furthermore you can also withdraw money from these agents, so basically they are the “ATMs” of Africa.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The growth of the mobile commerce (mCommerce) and eCommerce industries is fueling the global smart card industry, which is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8 percent through 2020, according to a new research report. All such factors are expected to drive the market during the forecast period.”.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with FinTech healthcare credit card SmartHealth PayCard , i2c announced on Tuesday (Feb. SmartHealth PayCard is enabled with the agile processing of i2c and is offering the first healthcare-only credit card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mastercard is partnering with CleverCards and Appreciate Group to offer gift cards directly to mobile wallets, Mastercard announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. The Select Digital Gift Card can be sent immediately by email, text or messaging app, and is available now as a last-minute Christmas present. billion in 2019.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Though they’ve overcome serious technical hurdles, work well, and are now in the hands of billions of smartphone-owning consumers, mobile wallets including those from Big Tech players Apple and Google are starving for share as Q1 2020 usage slipped below an unimpressive 2019. The mobile wallet can now be used on 92.8 up from 39.3

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JANUARY 31, 2021

City National Bank has enlisted New York City FinTech Extend to enable the bank’s clients to offer virtual corporate cards to employees, vendors and other business partners, the companies announced in a press release. Replacing them is much easier than replacing plastic cards. With Extend, City National is the first issuer in the U.S.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report. Instead, they’re now seeking entirely contactless payments in a COVID-19 world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Earnings season will pull back the curtain on where banks stand amid the pandemic — not just in terms of trading revenues amid rocky (to put it mildly) equities and fixed income markets. 13, we’ll also get a sense of the great digital shift that is moving traditional financial services, increasingly, into the mobile realm.

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JUNE 2, 2016

There’s one particular country that’s been creating a lot of attention in the mobile payments ecosystem in the past week. While those facts may seem a bit random for this edition of the mobile payments tracker, they do, in fact, matter. It’s a country with an estimated population of just 5.47 square miles.

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