PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In today’s top news, Alibaba has made almost $3 billion in loans available for companies hurt by the coronavirus, and Japan’s recent sales tax triggers fears of a recession. Japanese Sales Tax Triggers 6 Pct Economic Contraction. Also, HSBC cuts 35,000 jobs and $100 billion in assets in a streamlining and restructuring effort.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The ongoing pandemic poses challenges that have amplified businesses’ need to digitize their payment operations. Some firms have better adjusted to new digital tendencies than others, especially when it comes to keeping track of B2B payments and spend management. Bringing Virtual Cards To A Virtual B2B World.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

But along the way, global digital sales also carry a host of regulatory hurdles when it comes to satisfying various tax regimes. When [eCommerce companies] can’t get through the language barrier, the outcome is large-scale tax evasion, whether through ignorance, or whether through deliberate actions across the world.”.

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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.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

State mandates have also forced some businesses to close or limit on-premises operations, prompting such merchants to connect with consumers online instead. Shoppers may be reluctant to hand over their card details to every online retailer, as each transaction represents another risk that consumers’ information could be exposed in a breach.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

5) the launch of its MTrac payment platform in the state, designed to facilitate payments down the marijuana supply chain. According to MTrac, its payments platform was developed in cooperation with “the main bank in Louisiana” that plans to provide bank account services to the state’s marijuana-related businesses.

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BankBazaar

JULY 11, 2020

We’re already in the second quarter of the financial year and you should ideally be done with tax planning for the year. Most people think that they have limited means of saving tax. Here’s a list of lesser-known tax deductions that most people aren’t aware of. Tax Deduction For Disabilities. You’re very welcome!

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Payments, of course, are a vital part of the whole legal betting process. A key part of user experience is payment speeds.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It’s the end of a short holiday workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have a deep dive into spend management in addition to news involving the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, as well as data on state tax laws. . Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some accounts say Roman soldiers were periodically paid for their labors in salt, and while compensation methods have evolved considerably since then, the concept of lump periodic payments has endured. Digital tools like pay cards and apps allow workers to receive earned wages the same day they request them. as W-2 employees. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

The rise of new technology has dramatically altered the traditional nature of payments, allowing gig workers and full-time workers faster access to their earnings while enabling businesses and banks to move funds more quickly across international borders. Around the Smarter Payments World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Airbnb , the short-term, home-sharing site, has removed a payment system in France that was deemed controversial. The Payoneer card lets homeowners receive payments for rentals without any money going through bank accounts, which raised concerns among lawmakers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. And finally, that the banks and the card networks are the big losers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Zuckerberg Tells Congress That Libra Fills A Global Payments Void. He faced lawmaker skepticism over a range of Libra’s stated ambitions, but he reiterated his position: Libra is not meant to replace sovereign currency, and it will aid the unbanked population of the world. Visa Partners With Revolut To Introduce Multi-Currency Debit Card.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to payments, a lack of connectivity can mean abandoned bookings, as payment methods increasingly become a competitive differentiator. That’s particularly true as payment habits change from one jurisdiction to the next. One of the largest disruptors in this area is the virtual card.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

QR codes have enjoyed mounting adoption in the consumer payments landscape around the world in recent years as FinTech solutions embrace end-user efficiency and take advantage of smartphone penetration. Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., open banking may be able to change that.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Fraud comes in many flavors, and a payments-related lawsuit arising from the growing business of legal, recreational marijuana is proof of that point. But federal law still views marijuana as an illegal substance, which prevents most financial institutions, payment card networks and other providers from taking part in those sales.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As B2B FinTech firms continue working to break down silos, and ease the numerous friction points of the B2B payments process for both buyer and seller, the opportunities for data integration are vast. “This combination increases data accuracy, and shortens payment cycles.” B2B payments market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

11), Visa executives laid out a roadmap to displacing cash and checks across the global stage, digitizing payments through click to pay, tap to pay, digital wallets and cross-border flows – along with capturing a sizable slice of B2B spend, too. At its investor day presentation Tuesday (Feb. B2B Potential.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Carrying enough cash to cover those many needs is often a security risk, though, and drivers who lack the appropriate spending tools could see their delivery schedules veer off track if they have to search for specific retailers that will accept their payment methods. She still prefers cash, but EMV cards provide her with additional options.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

The decision to pare back operations in Africa — where the company will sell off much of its 62 percent ownership in publicly traded Barclays Africa — represents what The New York Times said was a step back from one of the key pillars of Barclays’ long-term strategy, right in lockstep with credit cards and investment banking.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It was in a convergence of these trends that Visa launched its real-time payments solution, Visa Direct , a technology enabling push payments onto recipients’ Visa cards. After all, if there aren’t users to accept payment, then payment senders will have no incentive to use the tech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The rise of Software-as-a-Service was the first major business model shift in the software world, said Christian Owens , CEO and co-founder of Paddle , and it’s had significant implications for the way SaaS companies acquire customers and accept payment. Payments As A Competitive Differentiator. A Continually Evolving Business Model.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Deutsche Bank Research and American Express offered an update on Amex’s card segments, and the successes of the credit card firm’s corporate segment are clear. According to the company, competition in the consumer card space remains a challenge. Last year, the GCS unit provided $3.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Square ‘s mobile card reader undoubtedly made a significant impact on the mobile point-of-sale ( mPOS ) market, and kick-started a slew of recent innovations to broaden the ability for small to medium businesses (SMBs) to accept payments just about anywhere.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

With nearly $90 million in new funding landing at B2B FinTechs this week, investors showed off a diverse range of focuses, from procure-to-pay to small business payments. But it was a Banking-as-a-Service company that led the roundup this time, with one startup looking to expand into Credit Cards-as-a-Service with its latest investment.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

It was a busy week for payments and commerce news, and the new PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Coverage includes a story about how bamboo straws signal a new phase in global commerce, a new mobile payment network and Amazon’s latest push into biometrics, among many other topics and original PYMNTS research.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

All eCommerce sites and payment providers have one thing in common no matter their size: the constant and pervasive threat of money launderers using their businesses to process ill-gotten gains, conceal the funds’ sources and convert them into clean, taxable income that government authorities cannot track.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Talk of “friction” in the payments industry is mostly about removing obstacles to consumer transactions, and how easily (or not) those payments get processed on the backend by merchants and banks. PYMNTS research found that 42 percent of B2B payments were made via paper check in 2019, for example. Disrupting Paper-Based Systems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Millennials have been at home in the global workforce for about a decade now, but Generation Z is starting to filter into offices, warehouses and work floors and bringing their fast payments expectations with them. How Business And Their Workers Can Avoid Frustrating Tax Mistakes. The Latest Workforce Spend Headlines.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Sure, among many consumers (including younger people), dollar bills, C-notes and the like stand almost as relics — to these consumers, cash is a retro payment tool at best, and a dirty, logistically costly waste of paper and ink at worst. That’s the context in which Kickfin is operating. Kickfin Play. Hassan asked Webster.

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FICO

MARCH 16, 2018

Social Network Analysis (SNA) tools hold the potential to help tax and revenue agencies identify non-compliance and tax fraud. These tools have been proven to be effective in fraud detection¹, but to date haven’t been utilized to any large degree at tax agencies. Opportunities for Tax Agencies. Improper registrations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

Tipalti is getting industry-specific with its supplier payment capabilities. The company announced this week a partnership with Paladin Software, a media technology company, a move that streamlines cross-border payments in the sector, the firms said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Now, Mastercard said, it is providing mid- and large-sized operations with an easier way to understand and manage expenses. Users will see a detailed overview of each item, like description, price and tax info, which will help companies track expenses and streamline auditing of expense reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Discussions about ID theft often involve hackers and cyberattacks gaining access to consumer and payment data. The agency said that the person behind the operation, Katrina Moore, “promoted the sale of a variety of financial documents on the website she operated, FakePayStubOnline.com. But action from the U.S.

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