PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

That holds especially true for the Asia-Pacific region, as InstaReM CEO and Co-Founder Prajit Nanu discussed with Karen Webster in a new PYMNTS podcast interview. It soon became clear to Nanu that the international payments market was in dire need of newer, better ideas. Credit Cards. Compared to consumers in the U.S.,

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rapid consolidation in the banking industry is creating a growing band of regional banks that find themselves stuck in a solution provider market that isn’t fully capable of serving them. FIS has captured a dominant share in the regional banking space with its IBS core platform (formerly Metavante).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

After a long, intensive crash course in payments, international money transfers, SWIFT , AML/KYC and a host of other financial service areas, it was clear to Nanu that the international payments market was in dire need of newer, better ideas. India, for example, was almost entirely a cash-remittance market half a decade ago.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 20, 2016

Regions Financial Corp. The Regions-Avant partnership was announced last April. is using its upcoming Avant deployment as an opportunity to “refresh” its digital offerings. “[W]e’re in the process even Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The program is housed in an app that will provide users with a photorealistic AR experience in a 360-degree virtual environment, where they can interact with a number of displays that educate them on the features of their card. To begin, the users must scan their cards on their phones. According to the J.D. Power 2018 U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. The projected value of the global self-service market by 2023 is $13 billion.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2019

retailer Iceland has seen encouraging results from a mobile wallet technology pilot during a marketing campaign. Retail categories that saw the highest transaction share included restaurants, apparel, gas, grocery and specialty retail. Users who reside in Belgium, the U.K., And in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip ’s multi-currency Visa cards for customers in China. fashion retailer Missguided is offering a pay later option through Klarna , and Nordic payments company Nets A/S and merchant payment service provider Concardis Payment Group said they have completed their merger. In addition, U.K.

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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

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

As sad as the end of Toys R Us may be, the iconic toy store is far from the only retailer struggling these days — and it’s not the only one throwing in the towel this week. The beloved, bankrupt retailer has announced the cancellation of all in-store events, such as its annual Easter Egg Hunt and Geoffrey the Giraffe birthday parties.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

The shift to digital commerce has opened up new markets for companies across all verticals and sizes. With so many retail stores closing, they need to be able to provide a way to sell D2C wherever those consumers are online.”. And everyone, he said, wants to crack the Chinese market. Shortening The Time To Commerce.

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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. shoppers made 72.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Visa President Ryan McInerney said that beyond the core card business there remains the opportunity to “capture new flows of money using our expanding network of networks.” McInerney also pointed to government to consumer (G2C), which is a “more nascent” market, with presence in government benefits and tax refunds. B2B Potential.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

“The wave of vending operators that are embracing cashless and mobile continues to roll through the sector because there is a lot of evidence that consumers like it and spend more,” USA Technologies Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Maeve McKenna Duska told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Okay, that’s not the best joke ever from the PYMNTS Bureau of Stand-Up Comedy, but the point is that the popularity of pizza constitutes a driving force for ongoing retail innovation – and we have proof. We used to just have a digital punch card,” said Kevin Blesy, head of strategy for &pizza. Let’s take the Washington, D.C.-based

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers around the globe have moved their purchasing online during the pandemic, and those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are no exception. The region’s financial institutions (FIs) and merchants have needed to work swiftly to support unprecedented levels of digital payment and shopping growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

upheld a 2018 ruling by a lower court, the Court of Appeal, that payments firms Visa and Mastercard had restricted competition for retailers by levying fees on transactions, known as multilateral interchange fees (MIF). The high court’s dismissal of Visa and Mastercard’s appeal paves the way for the retailers to seek compensation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

For payments, the company accepts credit cards and debit cards. California Found’s target market is almost nearly all women between approximately 35 and 65 years old. The Curation Process. As the curator of the box’s selections, McClure aims to offer a broad spectrum for each of its collections. The Brands.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

Imagine if a North American company had the market share of Amazon, the payment flexibility of PayPal and the credit portfolio of Visa. In Latin America, such a company exists in the form of MercadoLibre , a triple-threat regional financial powerhouse based in Argentina. One difference is the use of debit cards online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Overstock has decided to hold off on selling its retail business. In fact, he added that he anticipates “a year of explosive growth” for the retail division. To date, there has been no consumer-owned, tangible application that connects crypto and the mainstream market. s lead and issue their own digital coin like JPM Coin. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

According to Visa, a third of all credit card/debit card transactions in Singapore retail stores are made with contactless cards. One bank, UOB, has lifted that cap for any retailer that uses that bank’s payment processing. Singapore isn’t the only Asian market that Apple is eyeing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Mastercard came out ahead of Wall Street’s forecasts when its Q3 earnings report hit the wires before the markets opened yesterday – notching a beat on both earnings and revenue, with significant growth in transaction volume and global market share. Markets rewarded the good news with a 1.8 Earnings per share came in at $1.34

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The only way to predict what the emerging payments trends are for today is to seek out the one group of people who has the power to control the entire market: consumers. But, of course, no two consumers are exactly alike – especially when comparing consumers across different regions of the world. ” The Highlights.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is preparing to enter the mobile payments market, reportedly working to get retailers to accept Amazon Pay as a payment method. A person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that retailers may be resistant to the effort because they would view it as a threat. where competition isn’t as fierce.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Canadian and European markets, Facebook said it will turn to expanding its service offerings in 2019 and beyond. tap-to-pay cards play a big role in commerce. Contactless cards are a comparative rarity — most issuers don’t offer them and so, not surprisingly, most consumers don’t often use them. Tap-To-Pay Inches Into The U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean other types of apps aren’t finding increasing use among consumers — one of the changes going on that relate to the future earning and marketing power of apps and app stores. Recently, Feelunique , an online retailer of cosmetics and related products, joined the WeChat mini program world. Russia Rising. and Brazil.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Providers serving a wide array of businesses have access to more card or customer data than individual merchants, meaning they may be more able to flag individuals showing signs of fraudulent or unusual behavior. . Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

This can become increasingly difficult in emerging markets, where Kunal Patel, global head of product strategy and mobile payments at GoSwiff , explained that merchants are focused on operating in cash-driven economies. KW: How do you get the consumers — who, in many of these markets, are very cash-centric — on board?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A value card gives VIP guests immediate access to winnings. The card is reloadable and can be used on any service (gaming, hospitality, entertainment and ATMs) at the resort, in brick and mortar retail worldwide, and online. . There are more than 2.5 This group was anticipated to spend $152.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Indian online payments platform Cashfree has landed millions in new funding to help fuel its growth, while InComm Payments has acquired Brazilian gift card processor Todo Cartões. InComm Acquires Brazilian Gift Card Processor Todo Cartões.

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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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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 16, 2023

Even if your bank has limited consumer exposure, given that the consumer composes approximately 66% of the US economy, and, according to the yield curve and market pundits, we are all staring into a recession, paying close attention to consumer trends is critical. This data is consistent across regions.

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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. The low values in the US could be due to better initial targeting of customers, more appropriate initial limits and activation campaigns or a higher level of offers on the cards.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Mobile payment capabilities are on the forefront of retail executives and tech staff. In a survey by Zynstra , some 65 percent of retailers said they pegged mobile payments as their top priority for in-store technology, Chain Store Age reported. Global Wireless POS Market Growth. Card Payment Acceptance.

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