PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Among the numerous ways small businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, the sudden race to launch online operations has been among the most profound — and may ultimately be among the most long-lasting changes to the SMB community. “It does seem absolutely logical, up until the point that you start calculating costs.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Not every product launches smoothly (RIP Fire Phone ), not every new endeavor delivers (Amazon’s flirtations with offering a travel platform ended abruptly) and not every new market immediately yields. The degree to which consumers intend to continue shopping online seems to depend on the types of products and services they purchase.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

And that opened up an entirely new playing field for online gaming establishments now free to operate in any state that would allow them. But now gaming and sports betting is moving online and regulators are just now trying to figure out how to manage it.”. Or Michigan, which starts online gambling Friday, Jan.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. The GSA is estimated to spend around $6 billion per year on open market credit card purchases.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

PayPal ’s venture capital arm has invested $11 million in online returns service Happy Returns. “Happy Returns is building a network of physical return locations called Return Bars to enable in-person returns from online shoppers.” Some of the brands working with the company include Rothy’s, Untuckit, Everlane and Eloquii.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Buenos Aires-based eCommerce market MercadoLibre has seen a boost thanks to the pandemic, with shares climbing above $1,000 and sales spiking, Bloomberg reported. According to analysts with Bank of America, even as the market begins to recover and people go out more often, the tendency to buy more online might stick, Bloomberg reported.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company told TechCrunch that its newly launched product, called Flutterwave Store, is not a shift away from the company’s core online payments business.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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Cards Payments Tools Innovation 150

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To bring its fashions to new markets, Zara plans to roll out a global online platform. With the launch, the retailer will expand its efforts to 106 new markets, Chain Store Age reported. The new markets include many areas of Africa, such as Cameroon, Tanzania and Senegal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Commercial payments company WEX has announced a collaboration with Mastercard that will allow the firm to issue virtual cards in the Middle East. 8) that it will be able to issue virtual Mastercard cards in the United Arab Emirates following approval from the Central Bank of the UAE to operate in the market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

14), Wells Fargo called out strong mortgage banking fees, higher equity markets and declining sequential charge-offs as positives for the period. “As On the plus side, Wells Fargo reported that card fees rose to $912 million in the third period, up from $797 million in second quarter. Debit card point-of-sale purchase volume hit $102.9

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Cards Operations Report Mobile 206

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The health crisis has forced some eateries to close entirely, while others must operate at reduced capacities depending on state and local restrictions. The November Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker® explores the impact of AI and how eateries are using the technology to ease their operations, personalize customer offers and fight fraud.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible.

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Cards Payments Security Fraud 141

PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

In a recent report, CrunchBase looked back at how VC investors reacted to the market downturn over a decade ago. The publication pointed to commentary from angel investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, who predicted “that 50-80 percent of the venture-backed startups currently operating will shut down or go on life-support.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Italian consumers are embracing a new government program aimed at boosting retail sales while tamping down on tax evasion that allows buyers to receive a 10% refund on card payments made in stores. By offering the incentive, they hope to cut down on black market deals and fraud, according to The Financial Times.

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Cards Payments Taxes Study 188

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The B2B commerce arena is moving online at record speed as more business buyers seek to procure products and services the way they do in their personal lives. The furniture industry, for example, can be especially difficult to migrate to online platforms. A Hybrid Approach. But even those efforts may not be enough for some buyers.

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PYMNTS

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. At the terminal, shoppers can either use biometrics, enter a custom code or take advantage of the app’s QR code functionality to provide payment and loyalty card info. ” .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. elections.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

That network, in combination with Equifax, will use advanced technologies to connect data “signals” that stem from 32 billion online interactions, five billion annual transactions and 17 billion unique devices across the globe, as the company said in its announcement tied to the acquisition. The deal is anticipated to close in Q1 of 2021.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Will Tom Brady turn in his jersey after the game for an AARP card and hit the celebrity golf circuit? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. Which brands will blow it? More about that in just a bit, though.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Illinois-based daVinci Payments has announced it is releasing a Chinese Yuan (CNY) corporate-funded prepaid card for employees or customers of multi-national corporations. The company has partnered with UnionPay to provide virtual and physical cards that will be accepted at point-of-sale terminals in China. “At

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Many are instead flocking to online gambling sites after the closure of all 989 commercial and tribal casino properties in the U.S. However, it can take a long time for online players to collect funds, unlike at casinos, where consumers can instantly collect winnings in cash. payments market is behind that of Europe, but U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That] keeps them from getting in trouble with the card brands, and obviously avoids the significant costs that come along with fighting, investigating and resolving chargebacks. s struggles toward universal adoption in the European Union is reminiscent of EMV chip cards’ rise — a similar journey that aimed to solve a different fraud problem.

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Fraud Online Security Cards 221

BankBazaar

MAY 7, 2024

BankBazaar.com, India’s leading fintech co-branded Credit Card platform and online platform for free Credit Score, marks its third consecutive year of fast and sustainable growth, with an unaudited operating revenue of Rs.215 Strong bank partnerships have significantly bolstered BankBazaar’s position in the market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The United Kingdom-based mobile commerce company recently completed the installation of the new payment option on SoftBank phones, so that customers can make purchases without having to whip out a credit card or punch in a credit card number, Bango noted in its press release. a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

tech firms’ dominance across online platforms, and the collection and use of data. The European Union is examining the creation of a single data market that would reportedly challenge tech firms such as Google and Facebook, as Reuters reported. million credit card customers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

In Australia, the commercial card market is one example of how bureaucracy and legacy process have stifled access to important SMB financial services, despite a continued surge in banking innovation and digitization. “People don’t just want a physical credit card to swipe at the shops,” he said.

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Cards System Innovation Analytics 150

Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – October saw a plethora of new credit cards. From traditional banks such as HSBC releasing its Premier World Elite Mastercard Credit Card, to ride-share app Uber’s first foray into the market, it seems like everyone is interested in launching a new credit card promising to deliver what the other doesn’t.

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Cards Marketing Operations Online 249

PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

bank Barclays said that it is selling its Barclaycard credit card units based in Portugal and Spain. The sale is to Bancopopular-e, the Spanish online bank, The New York Times reported. The most recent divestitures have been to get out of retail banking operations in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2023

Many providers offer financial infrastructure and application programming interfaces (APIs) that help companies operate despite borders. Some companies build products like multi-currency debit cards and other online payment capabilities. Want the full expert post? Become a CB Insights customer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In today’s top news, The Clearing House (TCH) is increasing the value limit for general transactions on the TCH-operated real-time payments (RTP) network, Verizon is working with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card and the United States is moving to get tough on the sale of counterfeit merchandise through eCommerce.

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Cards United States Payments Innovation 130

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Get a toehold in a consumer’s account with a card and whammo, here comes EMV. Fraudulent activity is 81 percent more likely to occur online than at the physical point of sale. By now, it’s widely known that chip-enabled cards have been pushing fraud to digital conduits. Pity the poor fraudster. We pity no fraudsters.

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Fraud Analytics Online Cards 138

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

According to the Eastern Europe B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2019 report, online retail sales in Eastern European countries continue a trend of double-digit growth rates this year, a release said. Cards are the most common means of online payment in Turkey, Russia and a few other Eastern European countries.

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Online Retail Regional Trends 101

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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Cards Las Vegas Innovation Mobile 158

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

LINE Pay Corporation, operator of the popular payment app LINE Pay , announced that it is launching a LINE Pay co-brand credit card with Visa in Japan. The LINE Pay-Visa credit card is set to be released later this year, allowing consumers to make payments at merchants accepting Visa throughout Japan and around the world.

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Cards Branding Video Payments 142

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This week, Stripe introduced banking services, we get a glimpse of the EU's upcoming Digital Services Act and PYMNTS' data reveals online purchases ruled Black Friday. Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag.

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Cards Data Mobile Survey 151