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Waze Introduces Contactless Payments At ExxonMobil, Shell Stations

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Waze, the popular GPS navigation app owned by Google, has introduced contactless payments for ExxonMobil and Shell card holders in the U.S. Chairman David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) asked Pichai if Google has evolved from a turnstile to the rest of the web to a walled garden that increasingly keeps users within its sites.

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Using Debit Cards To Bridge The Stimulus Accessibility Gap

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Consumers are also changing how they pay for their purchases, with a recent study finding that debit card spend was up 11.7 Consumers today are especially likely to use their debit cards for their eCommerce purchases or to make in-store purchases with mobile wallets, and card-not-present (CNP) transactions represented 43.1

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Citizens Bank Partners With Microsoft Xbox All Access

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Consumers want affordable ways to make purchases without taking on additional credit card debt,” said Brendan Coughlin, president of consumer deposits and lending at Citizens Bank. Citizens Bank’s POS financing offers a payment and purchase model for retail purchases.

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Citizens Bank To Offer Consumer Financing For Microsoft’s Xbox All Access

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Consumers want affordable ways to make purchases without taking on additional credit card debt,” said Brendan Coughlin, president of consumer deposits and lending at Citizens Bank. Citizens Bank’s POS financing offers a payment and purchase model for retail purchases.

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States Continue with Amex Steering Suit, DOJ Abandons Antitrust Efforts

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The Justice Department may have left its skirmish against American Express and the issue of “steering,” but nearly a dozen states are battling on against the card issuer in their own fight. On Friday, the Justice Department announced that it would not seek U.S.

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Small Building Contractors Shift Gears As COVID-19 Shrinks Business

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president and owner of Energy-One , a heating, air conditioning and oil delivery service firm based in Rhode Island and serving that state and Massachusetts, told Karen Webster that survival is top of mind. But those pressures are a ways off, and there still remains a backlog for payments due to Energy-One for work already performed.

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How Charitable Giving Boosts Online BNPL Sales, Customer Engagement

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The addition of installment payment company Afterpay ’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings to Casely’s website in January also brought higher customer spend, with average order values rising 24 percent and conversion rates jumping to about 4 percent in the first few months. The Nonprofit Effect. A BNPL Loyalty Boost.

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