PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

24) a partnership to issue prepaid cards tailored to the Southeast Asian market. In a press release, the companies said that the Southeast Asian region, which is home to more than 640 million people, has stayed largely cash-based. This partnership goes beyond Grab issuing prepaid cards, and is a game-changer for Southeast Asia.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

million credit card customers to more easily manage and pay their balances. The bank’s “Pay by Bank” platform will be enabled by Mastercard’s Open Banking Connect service, which allows mobile and online credit card customers to make safe and instant electronic payments from their accounts.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, Goldman Sachs has selected FinTech startup Marqeta to power digital checking accounts for Marcus, while California credit card startup X1 notched $12 million in a funding round headed up by Spark Capital. Goldman Sachs has chosen FinTech upstart Marqeta to fuel online checking accounts for Marcus.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To bring its fashions to new markets, Zara plans to roll out a global online platform. The internet platform is also coming to regions of Asia and the Caribbean. For payments, the company plans to support major credit cards, along with PayPal. The full online catalog will be operational by 2020.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Cards get turned off, expire or are lost, consumers move and billing ZIP codes change. Merchants that accept credit card payments must be aware that their customers’ cards could become lost, stolen or expired, at which point the payments would be declined. Credit and debit cards can also have different challenges.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Today’s coverage includes Walmart’s newest online initiative, the latest challenger to Flipkart and Amazon in India, Dunkin’ Donuts cozying up with Alexa, the SWIFT debate gets heated and a corporate travel executive discusses the pros and cons of virtual cards with PYMNTS. Walmart, Handy Tie-Up Goes Live Online.

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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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NCR

MAY 14, 2018

With more countries investing in faster payments solutions, there are more options than ever for people to complete a purchase online. But the number one option remains online card payments, and new research has highlighted several reasons why this is the case. Where card payments still lag behind.

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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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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

JUNE 3, 2020

In Latin America, such a company exists in the form of MercadoLibre , a triple-threat regional financial powerhouse based in Argentina. It is one of the region’s fastest-growing companies, having just turned in a stellar first quarter in a region that has more complexities than any of its northern neighbors.

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The Paypers

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Pakistan-based online money management platform SadaPay and Mastercard have announced the launch of numberless, contactless-enabled cards in the Middle East & Africa region.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

The downturn is leading the online lender to walk away from previously held plans to expand beyond consumer loans to credit cards and also refinancing of auto loans. In the meantime, the firm will be offering credit cards to near-prime consumers, eventually, with the auto refinancing also to eventually come down the pike.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Visa and Mastercard are offering to cut fees that are paid by merchants on tourists’ card payments made in the European Union — an effort that would help end an antitrust investigation in the region. For online transactions, the debit card charges would be 1.15 percent and for credit cards that tally would be 1.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Razer, a gaming hardware company based in Singapore, has partnered with Visa to offer a prepaid card that will let the company’s 60 million users make payments all over the world, according to reports. The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While making a purchase online may feel like a granted convenience to most modern-day consumers, finding the right method of payment isn’t always as simple as it may seem, especially outside of the U.S. In fact, in certain parts of the world, the online ordering process isn’t always quite so predictable or smooth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The shift to digital commerce is more urgent than ever — and so are some of the potential pitfalls as fraudsters recalibrate their attacks and eye card-not-present transactions as a new way to make off with ill-gotten gains. And, she added, for merchants that already had an online presence, there’s been a marked volume swing.

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PYMNTS

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. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.

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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. Digital financial technology company Wirecard and online travel agency Ctrip are rolling out multi-currency Visa cards to Ctrip customers in China, Wirecard said in an announcement. 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

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The market in the Asia-Pacific region is particularly large, with experts predicting it will reach $21.2 This month’s Deep Dive explores the various initiatives in the regions, ranging from Singapore’s smartphone app for its SingPass ID card to Nigeria’s digital vaccination cards. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One report found that there was a 54 percent increase in gift card and loyalty fraud in May compared to the previous month, making promotion fraud prevention a top priority for merchants. Other fraudsters are deploying phishing schemes to net their ill-gotten gains, either using the stolen data themselves or selling it online.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

Australia-based commercial card firm Emerchants Payment Solutions is reportedly looking to make a strategic acquisition in the U.S. million to purchase Store Financial , a payments company operating in the B2B payments and payment card space. Reports on Thursday (April 28) said Emerchants is seeking to raise $36.7

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

Rivals Visa and PayPal have shaken hands over a joint plan to issue debit cards in Europe. Expanding our partnership into Europe provides greater consumer choice and benefits merchants,” said Bill Sheedy, CEO for the Europe region at Visa Inc. “By customers already have access to PayPal debit cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

FinTech solution company Entersekt has upgraded its authentication technology in the DACH region of Europe, according to a release. Two major Austrian card issuers are also using the technology. Together with Entersekt , we deliver a PSD2-compliant, highly secure online payment process that is decidedly user-friendly.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Walmart Makes It Easy to Shop Online While in Store. Consumers looking for a specific product they can’t find in-store can now ask an associate to help them find the item online via an in-store device. In the press release announcing the new feature, Walmart noted that customers can pay via cash, check, credit card or Walmart Pay.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Mobile payments penetration has historically faced a gap in Southeast Asia , Joel Neoh , founder of leading regional online-to-offline company Fave , told Karen Webster. Governments in the region often give full-throated support for digital payments because they make it that much easier for authorities to tax the flow of funds.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

The company has said that it is the first bank in Puerto Rico to offer digital services, ranging from business credit cards to working capital loans to SBA loans. Verticals within the SMB realm that may be receptive to online lending, he said, include manufacturing and retail.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And in an interview with PYMNTS, Jacob Shoihet , co-founder and CEO of the online financing platform Marco Financial , said the problem is particularly acute for exporters. “In But, as Shoihet said, these firms account for roughly 50 percent of trade volume in the LATAM region. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Payfort , an Amazon company set up in 2013 to help with payments throughout the Arab world, will be offering the new option through its online payment gateway, according to the report. Payfort managing director Omar Soudodi said the offering would help to bolster financial choice. "We store," he said in the report.

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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

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.” Drilling down a bit further into tap to pay metrics, the company has 145 million tap to pay cards in the U.S., will issue tap to pay cards. B2B Potential.

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Payments Source

MARCH 21, 2017

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of France's Ingenico, has signed an agreement with Air China to accept Discover Card payments in North America, a key market for the Beijing-based airline, with plans to expand to other regions later this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The report noted SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar said the regional offices of the SEC could serve as centers for FinTechs to receive guidance on regulations. That launch was followed by Goldman Sachs’ launch of Marcus , its online platform offering unsecured personal loans to consumers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Its client roster includes MGM Resorts, Caesars Resorts, and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino; the Oregon and Pennsylvania state lotteries; Churchill Downs; Golden Nugget online; and DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, and Rush Street sports, among others. A value card gives VIP guests immediate access to winnings. There are more than 2.5

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