Payments Source

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Gift cards will be the most-requested item this holiday season again, and for the first time, one in three U.S. consumers buying gift cards will opt for digital versions, opening new possibilities for merchants that are anxious to counter Amazon's influence and improve user experience for stored value.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

The second Payment Services Directive ( PSD2 ) groundwork laid out in 2016 is about to come to fruition in a few months – Sept. The deadline is looming for merchants and payments providers to comply with new requirements for authenticating online payments in Europe. 14, 2019, to be exact. To some degree.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

million from investors including Partech, Axeleo Capital, Lafayette Plug and Play and others to further develop its loyalty program integrated into credit or debit cards. Founded in 2018, Joko’s loyalty program already works with dozens of major retailers including McDonald’s, Uber, Starbucks, Zara and more.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. ’s Faster Payments service to give users the option of paying for goods with their bank account.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. 35 percent of retail businesses have experienced an increase in demand. Accelerating The Real-Time Payments Demand Curve: What Banks Need To Know About What Consumers Want And Need. 31 percent bank via app.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Well, “enemy” might be too strong a term — business is not war — but Square this week found itself a target of First Data and Fiserv , two big payments players merging in a $22 billion deal that will result in a consolidated organization called Fiserv. The new debit card can be used anywhere Mastercard debit cards are accepted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

The collaboration promises to accelerate Mastercard Labs, the financial services company’s research and development arm that is dedicated to bringing payment solutions to market quicker. Earlier this year, Michael Miebach , Mastercard’s chief product officer, told PYMNTS that there is no use in fighting the evolution of payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers, business leaders and consumers have all been trying to wrap their heads around the shifts in retail and payments. One thing holds true for the changing scop of payments and FinTech: Businesses and consumers alike need to prepare for the continued, swift shift to mobile.

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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 22, 2020

Credit and debit card penetration in markets like Mexico is still low compared to the U.S. For example, so many of Mexico’s consumers who might be interested in purchasing their products may not have credit or debit cards to pay for their purchases. Global Reach, Local Payments Solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Citibank has announced news that customers can now utilize the popular Citi Quick Lock feature on their debit cards, enabling them to quickly temporarily freeze their card in order to protect their bank accounts. Customers can easily lock their debit cards online or via Citibank’s mobile app if a card is misplaced.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consumers have always influenced how payment methods evolve – stretching back centuries to the barter system, and extending, now, into the digital age. And as payments are done in bits and bytes, across all manner of use cases, consumers prize convenience and personalization. In the webinar scheduled for Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Visa and Natixis Payments have launched Xpollens, a complete white label “Payments in a Box” service for retailers, corporations and Fintechs. Xpollens helps organizations integrate the whole range of payment services, from cards to instant payments, according to a press release.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

While large consumer-facing fintech companies like Square, Klarna, Affirm and others tout speed and efficiency of their user experiences, card issuing and processing startup Marqeta‘s technology supports their payment capabilities, with its APIs allowing […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

The payments industry has increasingly grown more complex over the last decade. From credit card companies to retailers and consumers, there are many key stakeholders in the commerce process, both on and offline. Out of the $22.049 trillion in total retail sales around the world in 2016, eCommerce makes up $1.915 trillion, or 8.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retail has spent the last decade building bridges to the digital world so a new generation of digital consumers can move fluidly between them. What’s been largely left behind, however, is a payments experience that moves just as seamlessly between those worlds. Samsung Pay Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. Mastercard will work with Adyen, Digital River, Stripe, Square, Worldpay and its own eponymous gateway services to bring tokens to retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there.

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

I remember when my mother stopped shopping at one department store because they wouldn’t give her a charge card in her own name, but another store would on their private-label charge card. In future articles, we’ll look at embedded finance from a banking, payments, lending, and insurance offerings perspective. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Loyalty has come a long way in the payments realm, from the days when strict terms of rewards programs were more frustrating than enticing for consumers. Services offered include price protection and free food delivery, once users reach certain spending thresholds. Venmo, too, has been rumored to be jumping on the loyalty bandwagon.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

Just about a decade ago, the checkout process at a retail shop was pretty simple — customers would wait in line to give their purchases to the cashier, who stood at a fixed point in the store, and then pay using cash or a credit card. Oh, how the times have changed. Around the world of PaaS.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 18, 2019

For many consumers and businesses around the world making payments is still hard and time consuming. Checks have to be written, invoices reconciled and credit cards kept safe. Mobile apps from industry newcomers, like the French challenger bank Kard and US-based Zelle, allow users to make payments and send and receive money instantly.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I2c, a global provider of smarter payments and integrated commerce solutions, announced Monday (Oct. “We’re working with i2c to build the new features and digital capabilities that deliver an outstanding cardholder experience.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Google’s Caesar Sengupta , general manager of payments, and Josh Woodward , director of product management, said the revamp aids visibility, streamlines transactions and lets users track a trail of payments. consumers now make purchases within retailer apps — a significant jump from the 21 percent who did so pre-pandemic.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

This is a difficult time to be an entrepreneur — the retail landscape is shifting under our feet, and the old way of doing things no longer works,” Shopify said in a statement. Dubbed “Reunite,” it gave attendees a glimpse into updates and new products designed to help entrepreneurs boost profits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Goldman Extends $10B In Apple Card Credit In First Month. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? customers had $736 million in loan balances at the end of September, though it’s not clear how that compares with other credit cards, as Bloomberg said banks do not break out performance by individual cards.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. Last month, Galileo launched what it called a faster and less expensive way to create debit cards.

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The heat will now be on card networks to reassure consumers of card security through other methods, during the ongoing barrage of data breaches that could undermine consumers’ confidence in cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. A true omnichannel platform will revolutionize the way travel merchants operate and thrive.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

But could merchant incentives help fuel this ongoing effort at digital payments innovation? That was one of the questions raised in a new PYMNTS interview with Ireti Samuel-Ogbu, Citigroup ’s head of payments and receivables for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Open banking is nothing if not a lot of moving parts and complications.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Yesterday Apple announced entering the payments space with Apple Pay, a new way to pay in physical stores and mobile apps. The move was not unexpected – the question of when and how Apply would do something in payments was subject to much speculation in recent months. P2P payments capability is also currently missing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is poised to change the end user experience of corporates as they navigate the daily challenges of cash flow management, supply chain activity and the need to become digital-first. The banks signing on to the new offering include marquee names such as Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Citigroup.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Japan, in the last several years, has been something of a puzzle among mobile payments watchers around the world. It would seem if any group of consumers was ever primed for mobile payments ignition — it would be Japanese consumers. It’s the market that should ignite but stubbornly refuses to. percent).

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Celent Banking

MAY 19, 2016

As a payments geek, I am always curious about payment experiences in various parts of the world. In the last month I had a couple of trips to the US – to New York and to New Orleans – and they just reminded me how diverse the US payments environment is. Of course, it's no longer just cards.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

This is true even for routine transactions, such as transferring money to friends and relatives or making retail payments. So what can financial institutions (FIs) do to improve their apps’ user experience (UX), and will making these changes help boost adoption and usage? percent, 25.5 percent and 28.9

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

The new PrestoPrime EMV Terminal is the successor to E la Carte’s current Presto System, which is operational every day in more than 1,800 restaurants across the United States and accepts contactless payments from Apple Pay , Android Pay and Samsung Pay. It also acts as a QR code reader and camera.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

The second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) requires financial institutions (FIs) to provide third parties access to their payment data, but some countries and banks are implementing this faster than others. Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of issuers expect SCA to lead initially to a decline in user experience.

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