PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Outback Steakhouse has rolled out a new “curbside concierge” option for holiday gift card shopping, according to a Monday (Nov. Customers call ahead or go to their nearby restaurant and drive into a set gift card drive-up parking spot with the service. Customers who purchase $50 in gift cards up to Dec. 30) announcement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency fans in the United States will soon have their own debit card for holiday shopping. The good news is that the new Coinbase Card handles all the conversions itself, exchanging whatever cryptocurrency that users have in their accounts to U.S. The pending arrival of the Coinbase Card in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method in the U.K., However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Following a formidable start for its “ buy now, pay later ” service in the United States, Klarna intends to roll out in Australia and other markets next year. The course has been popular with millennials who have a preference for debit cards over credit cards. When will it arrive? How do I do returns?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A new report has predicted that recurring transactions processed on debit and credit cards in the United States will reach $473 billion by 2021. Recurring Payments Market Forecast, 2017–2021: Set It and Forget It,” has explored U.S. market size and reviewed service offerings from seven providers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Gig, eCommerce and public utility firms are putting the spotlight on payment innovations to remain competitive in markets that are becoming increasingly saturated. In contactless payments news, only a small fraction of payments in the United States avoid the swipe or chip card reader.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The United States’ tight labor market exacerbates competitive tensions for such agencies, though. This month’s Deep Dive digs into the data that guides staffing agencies’ payroll disbursement decisions, including payroll cards ’ pros and cons. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. rose from 3.1 million in 2010 to 5.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Especially when it comes to doing business in far-flung markets. based firm looking to do business in those far-flung markets. Understanding the preferred, locally sourced alternative payment methods (APMs) can make or break a merchant’s eCommerce initiative, and credit cards do not always pass muster.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

is launching the Columbia National Credit program with its new CNC Card, according to a release by the company. Launch of the credit card comes after a successful test run in New York. This is the first time consumers in the United States can use a credit card to buy cannabis, the company said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Once upon a time in the 1960s, banks were building a series of one-off card-based solutions, much the way today in the ending days of the 2010s we see global digital banking, mobile wallets and alternative underwriting schemes building one-off tech-based solutions for financial services products. So today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in an announcement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

UnionPay International is expanding its support for cross-border B2B payments through an integration with wholesale eCommerce market Yiwu Market, based in China. Yiwu Market is the largest commodities wholesale market in the world. Yiwu Market is the largest commodities wholesale market in the world.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

And according to Jennifer Schroeder, executive vice president of product management at PULSE, prepaid and payroll cards are proving increasingly popular among forward-thinking employers. A tight labor market means employers must be cognizant of what their workers want.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions. in such adoption.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Visa and its India FinTech partner, Open , are rolling out their joint credit card product for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). 11) that Open, which operates a small business banking and financial services platform, announced the Founder’s Card, the result of its existing partnership with Visa. billion worth of transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, BlockCard is teaming with peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful for a new crypto debit card, while the Federal Reserve Board has modified the terms of its Main Street Lending Program (MSLP). Ternio’s BlockCard Teams With P2P Bitcoin Marketplace Paxful for Crypto Debit Card.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

While the retail point-of-sale (POS) terminals market is currently sitting at $15 billion, Global Market Insights is expecting it to reach $45 billion by the year 2024. To help combat these efforts and meet consumers preferred payment method demands, the retail POS terminal market will need to grow to bring down harmful actions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Apple Card looms, with a rollout that began last week through Goldman Sachs, and according to at least one analysis, the card might underwhelm consumers, lead to muted results (at least at the outset) for its tech and banking backers, and for Goldman, even lead to losses, depending on the economic climate. And even some losses?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

India-based digital payments service Paytm said it wants to take over the Japanese mobile payment market , according to a recent report. The move, according to Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, would be a step toward the company’s eventual goal of one day making it to the United States.

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MAY 5, 2020

has taken in $920 million in cash via arrangements with co-branded credit card firms. and Hilton have also reportedly recently tapped into the bond markets. Approximately 75 percent of hotel rooms are vacant in just the United States, and seven in 10 lodging workers have been put on leave or laid off.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

N26 , the FinTech bank startup, is upgrading its N26 Metal card, with a launch happening Wednesday (June 13). According to a report in TechCrunch , the card was first announced at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in December of 2017 and was available for early access by N26 Black customers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Safety-minded consumers the world over can now be seen tapping contactless cards, scanning QR codes or utilizing voice ordering technologies to make purchases without potentially putting themselves or others at risk of contracting the virus. The Beyond The Card: Toward The Cardless And Contactless Future report, a PYMNTS and i2c Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Credit card giant American Express (AmEx) has announced it is selling its Serve platform to InComm, in a deal that gives the latter firm exclusive rights to distribute Amex’s prepaid and reloadable card products in the United States. InComm is a tech firm which activates credit cards at the point of sale.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

But the fintech market has rebounded. In 2017, in the United States, overall VC funding -- a barometer of startup activity and appeal.Read More. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

billion acquisition of Plaid, arguing that the deal would allow Visa to extend what the DOJ alleges is the company's control of the online debt market. The company has already integrated with about 15,000 banks in Canada and the United States. Department of Justice sued Visa on Thursday (Nov. 5) to block its planned $5.3

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Mastercard Gets Nod To Join China’s $27T Payments Market. 11 to set up a bank card clearing business, providing it with access to a $27 trillion payments market. The People’s Bank of China said it has approved an application by Mastercard’s Chinese joint venture to run a bank card clearing business in the nation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Amid what management termed “healthy broader economic trends” in the United States, Discover Financial Services said that rising rates – coupled with increased credit card activity – helped to propel top- and bottom-line growth in the third quarter. Credit card net charge-off rates for the period stood at 2.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

With many shoppers in Mexico wary of credit card fraud and relying mostly on cash, Amazon has launched a new cash payment service in the country. Even so, the company’s Mexico sales of $253 million last year were well behind the market leader, Argentina’s MercadoLibre, Inc., and only slightly above Walmex ’s online revenues.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. For the past five years, Holdaway was the president of Capital One’s Canadian division, and played a leading role in the company becoming the exclusive credit card issuer for Costco Wholesale Canada.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

percent of consumers, this customer base may represent a marketing opportunity for C-stores. According to Thorntons, the ability to provide consumers with a loyalty-focused mobile solution has “changed the game for our marketing efforts.”. As it stands, 122,000 C-store locations sell gas in the United States.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

and the first in Puerto Rico to offer its credit cards for use in Cuba. In a press release , Popular said the Mastercard credit cards of its two banking subsidiaries, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and Popular Community Bank, can be used at any of Cuba’s authorized merchants and ATMs throughout the country. and the U.S. regulations.

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APRIL 28, 2016

is soaring the global demand for smart payment cards by as much as 34 percent, a new Smart Payment Association (SPA) report has found. billion chip cards were supplied — of which, 570 million were shipped to the U.S., The shift to EMV in the U.S. Last year alone, over 2.06 marking a twofold increase over 2014.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Helena Mao , vice president of global product strategy for payments at Blackhawk , spoke to PYMNTS, explaining why many consumers were slower to adopt the rollout of mobile wallets and payment methods in places like the United States — and why those feelings may be shifting. By contrast, U.S. By contrast, U.S.

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JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Sometimes the cards are ancillary to a different criminal purpose.

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