PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2020

BPCL has teamed with Fino Payments Bank in order to provide digitized card refills for fleet drivers in India, according to a report from The Hindu BusinessLine. Before this, truck drivers had difficulty refilling their BCPL Smartfleet cards in and around Erode. Repairs factor in, too.

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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. shoppers made 72.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rapid consolidation in the banking industry is creating a growing band of regional banks that find themselves stuck in a solution provider market that isn’t fully capable of serving them. FIS has captured a dominant share in the regional banking space with its IBS core platform (formerly Metavante).

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JUNE 6, 2019

In the latest Disbursements Tracker , PYMNTS explores how banks and card providers are approaching payment innovations to keep pace with consumer demand, and to better protect against fraudsters. Amazon is also pushing into the region, relying on India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to enhance P2P payments through Amazon Pay.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Visa teams up with Razorpay to debut a small business commercial card solution, while Nets is working with Yoba Smart Money to develop small business payment tools. Razorpay, Visa Team for SMB Corporate Cards. Emirates NBD Debuts Omnichannel Corporate Banking Program. Australia Could Debut Compulsory eInvoicing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In a press release , Regal said its agreement with Mastercard will allow banks to provide an integrated payables platform that supports virtual card payments. Together, the companies are launching RegalOne, an application that provides integrated virtual cards to the corporate customers of regional and community banks.

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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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The Paypers

APRIL 10, 2019

(The Paypers) Mastercard has partnered with Germany-based Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Mobile Security to accelerate issuance of contactless cards in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2019

HSBC has added six foreign currencies supported by its commercial card products in Europe in support of corporates operating across borders in the region. We now offer a full range of commercial card products to clients across 26 countries in Europe and 43 countries globally, with the same core capabilities in each market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 Regionally, the EMV chip card adoption rate is highest in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean (85.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Travelport , which enables corporate travel agencies with point-of-sale (POS) technology, is repositioning itself in response to heightened awareness and adoption of virtual cards (v-cards) in the business travel space. With this agreement, we look forward to improving the hotel billback solution for our customers in the region.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Bank of America (BoA) has expanded its mobile wallet use to include corporate customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions, hoping to enhance clients’ experiences through faster and more secure business transactions, according to a press release. and Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This new platform supports central banks as they make decisions now and in the future about the path forward for local and regional economies.”. In July, Mastercard announced the expansion of its cryptocurrency partner program to streamline the process for crypto-wallet providers to issue secure, compliant payment cards to their customers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Visa and Wirecard are collaborating on a digital fleet card program, the companies revealed in an announcement on Thursday (June 21). The solution will be available to businesses across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa before rollout in other geographic regions. This is costly and time-consuming.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions. He offered an example in which a U.S. in such adoption.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

Global technical body EMVCo has released its updated report on the number of EMV chip payment cards, saying that the figure has increased 1.4 percent of all card-present transactions conducted globally between Jan. EMVCo also broke down EMV chip card adoption rate by regions: Europe Zone 1: 84.3% (up from 83.5%

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

James Anderson , executive vice president of global commercial and B2B solutions at Mastercard, said the idea was to build a new, secure kind of payment rail. and will be available in all regions by the end of next year, the release says. The A2A features are already available in the U.S.

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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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Abrigo

MARCH 8, 2024

While previously, fraud was local or regional, today, scammers leverage technology extensively. They make fake accounts and profiles and analyze people groups, current events, and regional characteristics to appear as legitimate as possible. Create and follow your internal processes for communications and security.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

This week’s look at the latest bank-FinTech tie-ups shows Banking-as-a-Service and other FinTech players embracing smaller regional and community banks to elevate small- to medium-sized business (SMBs) and corporate banking offerings. Five Star Bank Taps Corserv Card Tech. Finastra Chosen by Community FI. payment schemes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Corporate payments firm WEX is pushing virtual card technology within Latin America and has announced a new partner to help the cause. The firm revealed this week that it is working with Argo , a corporate travel and expense management company operating in Brazil and Mexico, to offer a virtual card solution for corporate travel managers.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Plus, Pioneer Bank sues over MyPayrollHR scandal, Procurement Partners secures new funding, and ImagineTime partners on FinTech for accountants. Revolut has launched an acquiring solution for its Revolut Business starter pack, which will allow businesses in 13 European countries to accept credit card payments online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

The new fee structure, which had been in planning for some time, would raise some credit card transactions for a number of merchants and lower it for others. ” Cards offered by Visa and other companies set what are called interchange fees , which are collected by the banks that issue the cards. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Our customers increasingly rely on us to provide solutions that help make their systems safer and more secure,” said Johan Gerber, executive vice president, security and cyber innovation, Mastercard. Threat Scan is part of our multi-layered security strategy to secure the payments ecosystem,” said Johan.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data from secure payments enabler EMVCo shows that 58.9 percent of card present transactions, measured globally, were EMV chip-enabled, the technical body said Wednesday. other regions have seen much higher adoption rates of EMV-enabled transactions, as the technology has been deployed there for significantly longer periods of time.

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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

MAY 10, 2016

But, of course, no two consumers are exactly alike – especially when comparing consumers across different regions of the world. The study looked at 500 consumers (18+) in each country who had at least a credit or debit card. “The pie for card issuers in Europe is significant. ” The Highlights.

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JUNE 1, 2016

The company, founded within Paris-based startup studio eFounders, allows corporate managers to create physical or virtual commercial cards for employee spend; the tool then provides a platform for professionals to manage the activity on those cards and assess expenses.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Marcello Baricordi , Visa’s general manager for MENA, said “enabling secure, immediate movement of money for gig economy workers, like Careem captains, is especially vital as we support economic recovery efforts.”. He said as the pandemic fuels digitization of payments, convenient and secure cashless solutions are key.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

Cross-border payments platform Currencycloud and Hyundai Card, South Korea’s digital pioneer company, recently announced an exclusive partnership to enable the launch of Korea’s first mobile remittance service provided by a credit company. The service launches soon and will be available through Hyundai Card’s Global Remittance application.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The shift from magnetic stripe to EMV chip cards marked one of the 21 st century’s most widespread payment developments. Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Some national and regional markets are more willing to accept AR than others. Those numbers look pretty different by region. Businesses worldwide cited insufficient ROI, security concerns, lack of budget and lack of knowledge as the top barriers to adopting AR. The global security concern figure is 87 percent.

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MARCH 31, 2020

With the investment, MatchMove, which is also based in Singapore, will be able to extend its “banking-as-a-service” wallet capability to Shopmatic’s ecosystem spanning over 435,000 eCommerce small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individual entrepreneurs across the region.

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