PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Brazil is now Uber’s largest market outside the United States, with São Paulo boasting more Uber rides than any other city in the world. In July, Uber partnered with Mastercard and financial institution BBVA to offer a debit card to drivers in Mexico to promote banking in what is mostly a cash country.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But this year’s rise seems to also have been driven by inflation, pushing the amount of average credit card spend in the UK to the highest level since our UK Risk Benchmarking records began in 2006. December also saw a significant rise in UK cardholders missing one credit card payment, which underlines the financial pressures on consumers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Going a bit further, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $466 billion, outpaced by the rest of the world at 16 percent to just over $1 trillion. billion cards issued, with 7 percent growth, the bulk of which — at more than 2 billion — were Mastercard cards. The remaining 496 million were Maestro cards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Visa has teamed up with UAE-based NOW Money to bring digital banking offerings to low-income clients in the Gulf Region who can’t access typical banking offerings like international money transfers. CORO Global – and its gold trading mobile program – just grew its reach in the United States with the addition of a license to run in Alabama.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

Breaking that gross dollar volume down a bit further, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $466 billion, outpaced by the rest of the world at 16 percent to just over $1 trillion. billion cards issued, with 7 percent growth. The company had 2.5 The revenue trends show that of the total $3.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

billion in April and brought in $920 million in additional liquidity via amendments to its co-brand credit card agreements in May. Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Visa announced that the growing number of chip cards and chip-enabled merchants has helped bring counterfeit fraud in the U.S. payments industry to begin the shift to EMV chip cards in 2011,” the company wrote in a press release. payment volume in March was on EMV cards. down by 76 percent. Visa set the path for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Rather than entering new payment information – including address and card details – users can easily enter Amazon account login info. “We’re delighted to offer Amazon Pay to our customers, as it is one of the most secure ways to pay for flights, as the user doesn’t have to re-enter their card details,” he said.

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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. The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

29) that showed increased spending on cards and across borders up double digits. Management expressed confidence about continued uptake of new payment flows such as with instant payments, and contactless payments in card-present situations. billion, and Mastercard said card growth was 5 percent to 2.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In the United States, anyway. Last month, PayPal and Venmo began offering a credit card that features users’ QR codes , which allows the platform’s more than 60 million customers to shop, split purchases and earn cash back wherever Visa cards are accepted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Mastercard’s results continued a string of double-digit gains in transaction count, growth in card count and, of particular note, continued traction in cross-border activity. billion, while the number of cards outstanding by the company was up 7 percent to 2.5 billion, better than the $3.8 billion that had been expected.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A year ago, no one would have predicted that the United States would face a deadly pandemic, a massive Gulf Coast hurricane and wildfires engulfing the West Coast. That means instead of just hitting one region, COVID-19 has affected every credit union. And yet here we are.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

i2c has joined with Visa’s FinTech Fast Track Program in the United States, Canada and the CEMEA region as a new enablement partner, allowing for quicker connections with the payment giant’s many programs. III, to approve a business combination with Paya and modify its name to Paya Holdings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Such a move would see the United Kingdom exit the European Union and abandon the financial regulations that are in place in the region, and some FIs that have served both markets are now withdrawing to serve one or the other. customers to recipients in Asia and Europe. How Rayo Delivers Immigrant-Focused Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

4), a new service that will offer debit cards, bank accounts and other financial services to online merchants and vendors using Stripe’s payment processing platform. The acquisition will help Affirm expand its network of merchants in both Canada and the United States. Stripe announced Stripe Treasury on Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Each sMALL Surprises pack includes a selection of sensory toys/games, trendy accessories, sanitizing samples, activity cards, stickers and school supplies. Consumers can visit SmallSurprises.Shop , access a questionnaire and then select a customized pack to be delivered anywhere in the United States.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

After all, what counts as a bank or not is a little bit different in India than it is in the United States, he said. Agashe said the 50,000 very small community banks and credit unions (CUs) spread throughout India’s rural regions don’t count as “banks” in the official tally. But everywhere I went, there were banks all over.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The integration provides field service businesses with a mobile payment solution to accept card payments at the time of service, receive funds as early as the next business day, and issue invoices from the field. simPRO currently has more than 5,500 clients and 150,000 active users worldwide.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Over half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017, with rural areas feeling the brunt of the closures per Federal Reserve research.

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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

MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Cards are perhaps proving a sticking point in the move toward electronic payments. Keep a lid on the casket talk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Within that number, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $486 billion, outpaced by the 14 percent growth seen in the rest of the world. billion, and cards grew 6 percent in number to 2.6 Management said on the call that switched transactions showed double-digit growth across all regions globally.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Stripe aims to empower more companies from this region to export their creativity and ambition to the rest of the world.”. 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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

In the latest Merchants Guide to Navigating Global Payments Regulations, PYMNTS looks at the latest open banking developments in regions like the Asia-Pacific (APAC), the European Union and the United States. The European Banking Authority (EBA) is relaxing some of the E.U.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Companies based in the United States that contend the directive would be costly, were they to comply — costly to the tune of millions of dollars. The newswire stated the mandate in India may have a ripple effect and may push the needle toward a similar walling in of data. The other card peers declined comment.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If pre-season estimates were correct, this holiday season was worth $1 trillion in the United States alone. Fighting the Credit Card Fear . Once the gifts have all been unwrapped and the cookies have all been eaten, there is the occasionally shocking reality check of opening that first credit card bill post-holidays.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It has already made the service available in Brazil, Jamaica, Panama, Latin America and the Caribbean region. With the app, customers in Mexico can send money through the Western Union mobile app and choose from payment options that include card in-app or cash and pay at a retail location. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Once upon a time in the 1960s, banks were building a series of one-off card-based solutions, much the way today in the ending days of the 2010s we see global digital banking, mobile wallets and alternative underwriting schemes building one-off tech-based solutions for financial services products. So today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

This can be difficult, with a recent study finding that 78 percent of banks in the Asia-Pacific region reported rises in fraud after debuting real-time payments services. Security is top-of-mind for many firms in the United States and appears to be affecting executives’ choices when determining which payment tools to use.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

Real-time payments are growing more established in countries like the United States, as institutes like The Clearing House (TCH) update their payment infrastructures for the first time in more than three decades. Mastercard, meanwhile, has partnered with the P27 Nordic Payments Platform to bring real-time payments into that region.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

-based merchants sell across borders, but that percentage lags behind other nations such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where half of merchants that sell goods and services online do so across borders. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S. percent today.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Three months away from the end of 2019 and the dawn of the 2020s, the state of the credit union is stable, due to a healthy foundation that is already in place, according to Charles E. Pairing those strengths with robust credit card offerings, he said, helps CUs market a full suite of financial offerings that are comparable to marquee FIs. “As

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Abrigo

AUGUST 19, 2020

As with any global or regional disaster, illicit actors are taking advantage of the increased pool of possible victims. Advisories from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and other federal and state agencies address the increase in the number of reported fraud cases tied to the pandemic. Card Fraud. Card Fraud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

The final phase is in regards to the Asia Pacific region. The companies are casting a broader net of collaborators, with the announcement that their Business Payments Network (BPN) is growing to include support for ACH and wire transactions in addition to card payments. 24 following multiple phases that started last fall.

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