PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Livestreaming online shopping is finally gaining momentum in the United States, via an evolving business model from Glamhive. Data: 15K : Number of Kim Kardashian’s perfume units that sold out within minutes when the celebrity appeared on a China livestreaming show.

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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. She figured out what was going on when her debit card was declined at a coffee shop. The report , “U.S.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2018

It appears that 2017 was a good year for omnichannel shopping, particularly according to the eCommerce Foundation’s recently released “United States Ecommerce Country Report” that covered eCommerce data from the last year. The majority of online shoppers today appear to be between 18 and 34 years old. According to D.J.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Plutus , a British FinTech startup, is providing rewards via its credit card to customers who buy from the eCommerce store of Nike , Cointelegraph reported. Users have to utilize the Plutus Visa card as they shop through the web to get the benefit. The rewards are made with Pluton, the native digital currency of the company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital. In June, Stripe announced Stripe Terminal , a set of SDKs, APIs, and pre-certified card readers that let users accept in-person payments. It’s now available all over the United States. Stripe announced Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Razer Fintech and Visa have unveiled the Razer Card prepaid card, while SafetyPay has joined forces with LATAM’s Rappi. Razer Fintech, Visa Pitch New Prepaid Card to Young Adults in Singapore. Digital Payment Firm SafetyPay Teams With LATAM's Rappi. through March 2024.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

PNC Bank’s Treasury Management unit is testing a new solution to address card-not-present (CNP) fraud for commercial clients. 7) that it is piloting Dynamic CVV2 technology for commercial card customers. The company said in a press release Wednesday (Nov. “Almost all U.S. “Almost all U.S. Christopher Ward.

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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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2017

What if, instead of cards, consumers just had to put in a code—and then another code—to get access to their money at the ATM? Wells Fargo announced today that its customers now have full access to about 13,000 card-free ATMs, installed across the United States.

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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

JULY 15, 2019

Card delinquencies have remained steady at Bank of America , which reported June credit card delinquencies of 1.56 According to news earlier in the month, large credit card issuers in the United States reported lower delinquencies in May. percent compared to 2.83 percent in May. percent for a three-month average.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What does the future hold for the plastic payment card? Or will cards with cutting-edge technology win more loyalty from shoppers? The payment card has “a long life ahead of it,” he told Karen Webster. Even if you consider technologies like mobile, you can see that the consumer is still paying with payment cards.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The new solutions replace the company’s on-premise offerings, Credit Card Extension and Online Bill Pay. Payment Extension is a credit card and electronic transfer payment solution providing secure payment capabilities through Microsoft Dynamics. It did not release the name of the company.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This shift in buying behavior is likely here to stay, too, leading more customers to use card-based payments to complete their purchases when shopping online. This is the focus of Understanding Frictions In Credit Card Transactions: How Transaction Disputes And Declines Impact Merchants’ Reputations, a PYMNTS and PAAY collaboration.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2017

24) they had formed a new partnership to expand the acceptance of the UnionPay card in the U.S. to pay with their UnionPay chip, credit and debit cards at First Data merchant clients. We are extremely proud to work with an innovative partner like UnionPay International to expand their card acceptance throughout the United States.”.

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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. Drilling down a bit into the Puerto Rico market in particular, Arora noted some differences between small business lending versus, say, the United States.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Most consumers in the United States stubbornly cling to their plastic payments, even as customers in other countries — see China — increasingly embrace at a steady rate mobile and other digital forms of payment. This could be due to the fact that, as many in fintech have stated, the card infrastructure in the.Read More.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are now working to extend services into customers’ homes, for example, and consumers are making fewer credit card payments amid uncertainty over what their employment statuses and budgets might be when the bills come due. The Paytm cards can be used both in-store and online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Costco Wholesale has reached a milestone, with Costco saying its co-branded Citi Visa Anywhere credit card now has 1 million members who have signed up for the card. According to a report , the co-branded card was launched in June and is resonating with consumers. million American Express co-branded cards, “about 7.5

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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

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. It is a leading brand for gamers in Europe, China and the United States.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2019

A report from the Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) said several government departments still rely on the three major credit agencies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — to verify a person’s identity before they can access their services online. Agencies like the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

A Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for stealing credit card numbers and selling the data online, according to The New York Times. Seleznev was convicted for running a credit card and identity theft business out of his homes in Indonesia and Russia. “This prosecution is unprecedented.”

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2019

As online banking continues rapidly evolving , ahead of another anticipated round of funding next year, digital challenger bank Monzo remains in discussions to secure as much as £100m in upcoming weeks. million customers in 2019, offering those users a mobile app bank account and a distinctively-colored coral credit card. In the U.K.,

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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. But there’s also other things like, where’s my package?

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Against that backdrop, considering the speed at which states are accepting online sports betting (and the strength of the dollars flowing into the space), legalized gambling via mobile seems a sure wager. Several other states have online gambling legislation in the works.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

India-based online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has reportedly spent about $7.3 million to buy Scootsy , another Indian firm that offers online food delivery services. That said, online food delivery is having its moment. Evidence of that growth comes from the United States, as demonstrated by recent Q2 earnings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Earnings season is upon us, offering insight into business spending among payment network giants such as Visa , Mastercard and WEX — across cards and, of course, cross-border payments. Under the existing relationship, Brex has been able to issue World Elite Mastercard for Business commercial cards. BlueVine Business Banking.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

During trade talks, the United States has been trying to convince China to allow it more market access, and the central bank said that it was going to allow for “equal treatment” for domestic and foreign groups alike. The move has been building for a while.

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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 Ideally, we’d want to be a financing partner for every buyer relationship that they have in the United States,” Shoihet said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Leslie Ragan manages transaction fraud prevention for Elan Financial Services , a unit of U.S. Bank , one of the largest commercial banks in the United States. She pointed to Elan Financial Services as leveraging a comprehensive fraud strategy for the benefit of the FI clients for which it provides card-issuing services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

December’s Buy Now, Pay Later Report , the ‘Millennials and the Shifting Dynamics of Online Credit’ edition, provides illuminating new numbers to quantify BNPL’s impact. The report points out that, counter to prevailing views, millennials are more likely to own and use credit cards than any other cohort right now.

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