PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

As PYMNTS has reported, consumer expectations and retail commerce have both evolved quickly to meet the demand that everything from credit to debit cards to digital wallets be on offer as payments choice. Flexibility Is Key.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M Incumbents Play Catch-Up.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2018

The decision is intended to both prevent fraud and reduce errors, the retailer said. The news comes as major retailers like Target , Home Depot , Walmart and Lowe’s have been forced to introduce stricter return, store credit and gift card policies in response to a troubling trend.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Online retail has exploded in popularity over the past 20 years, with online giants like Amazon, eBay and big-box retailers’ marketplaces becoming consumers’ go-to alternatives to brick-and-mortar merchants. The eCommerce industry is expected to generate $4.5 The eCommerce industry is expected to generate $4.5

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards. Fraud prevention tools. Supporting merchant partner growth. Growing the internet economy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A few weeks before the CCC issued its final licenses, GFA Federal Credit Union of Gardner, Massachusetts, announced it would be willing to work with legalized marijuana businesses, extending financial services to the industry and providing marijuana retailers with the same financial benefits used by traditional businesses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

As PYMNTS has reported, consumer expectations and retail commerce have both evolved quickly to meet the demand that everything from credit to debit cards to digital wallets be on offer as payments choice. Flexibility is Key.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail is surprisingly difficult and friction-filled work. The problem is not in moving the supply. The exchange we are working on building will be up and launched by Jan.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

That’s because Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is on the way in September, but as has been seen with other sweeping changes mandated by regulators and impacting the very way payments are made, lots of folks are not paying attention. Retail Sales: Rally 1.6 The economy is growing, and tax refunds may have also helped boost spend.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The current quarter included a 10-cent per share income tax expense. . Wayfair, which impacted how states may collect taxes on sales made by out-of-state sellers. . The San Francisco-based bank had a total of 5,751 retail branches by the end of the second quarter, citing 114 branch consolidations during the first half.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When considering the financial services (FinServ) challenges of the legal cannabis sector, the biggest point of friction that almost always comes to mind first is the point of sale (POS): enabling marijuana businesses to accept electronic payments from their retail customers. A Shifting Regulatory Landscape.

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FICO

JUNE 21, 2021

Many credit card issuers were faced with making new operational decisions, adapting to new regulations, and providing a safe and engaging customer experience. million with most impacted sectors occurring in food, travel, retail and recreational services. one year earlier in April 2020. Over-Limit Spending.

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Insights on Business

JULY 20, 2017

Regulations, such as Payment Services Directive (PSD2), are forcing banks to “open up”, enabling customers to easily share data with third parties. A traditional retail bank has its own distribution channels (such as branches, contact centers, and digital channels). Banking products are transparent and easy to compare.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

But reaching a broader range of consumers, accommodating their payment preferences, and satisfying regulatory and tax issues in unfamiliar territory introduces a host of new operational challenges for these companies. With so many retail stores closing, they need to be able to provide a way to sell D2C wherever those consumers are online.”.

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Celent Banking

JUNE 5, 2015

Another case arises when consumers have high interest rate credit card debt. Anchoring on credit card disclosures is very powerful. Initial experiences with the new credit card disclosures shows that borrowers are anchoring on the minimum payment figure, and on occasion paying less each month than they otherwise would.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

For Chinese consumers, the partnership will allow any UnionPay consumer to link their card credentials to a PayPal wallet — and start transactions with PayPal’s 24 million merchants worldwide. That is a lot more than the card networks have right now.”. But in the long term, that isn’t going to disrupt the banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Anyone in a regulated industry — and that’s just about all of them — are also plenty dubious about using cryptocurrencies as the processing rails for supporting those pilots and incorporating them into their longer-term plans should their pilots show promise. And to learn.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 3, 2015

This is among the key findings of Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) latest World Payments Report , which revealed that these transactions – defined as those not statistically reported under usual payment methods such as credit/debit cards, cheques, direct debits and money transfers – accounted for between 24.5

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Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Based on the rate of cash-free transactions and the percent of the population that relies on a debit card, here is a look at the 10 countries leading the pack toward a nearly cashless economy. It uses the results of MasterCard report to make a top 10 list of countries heading towards cashless economies. Ok, why not: let’s have look through.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet’s impact on retail has been great, however, the predictions that the internet would be the death of high street retailers have been greatly exaggerated (with the notable exception of a few such as Woolworths in the UK). Indeed, in August UK high street footfall rose by 1.1% (BRC). In the UK in 2015, £9.4

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Based on a clearly defined strategy, this team has established a dedicated fintech group that offers services ranging from BaaS to sponsoring card issuance and lending, to providing crypto services, to offering niche partnerships to the gaming industry. regulated financial institutions! THE INDUSTRY TREND AWARDS.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Visa also announced that it had extended the real-time, ubiquitous capability to other disbursement types as well including insurance claims, contractor payments, tax refunds and even merchant account real-time funds settlement. So, we all know this – chip cards were not going to fix the problem of fraud at the POS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Heavy-handed regulators. The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail. Malls, retail stores and even some bank branch closings proliferated in 2017.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 25, 2016

When I’m working out of our US office I use a Simple account (now owned by BBVA which actually is a bank) but Simple wasn’t a bank, Simple was a prepaid card and an app, but to me the consumer it looked like a bank and it was more than adequate for my purposes. The first one is the trend to what people have started to call instant payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

“Competition is fierce and profit margins are thinner than for any industry except retail,” the publication stated, adding that industry fragmentation and a lack of investment are also troubling trends for the space. “Because of that complexity, taxes are more complex – it’s a snowball effect.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

Those searches are prompted by a consumer’s interest in discovering the answer to something: When are federal taxes due? They know that they’ll be presented with many of them, including some placed at the top of the search page paid for by brands or retailers to appear there when a searcher uses those keywords.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Platform operators and merchants must conduct due diligence related to everything from intellectual property and tariffs to tax laws and FX rates. There’s a relatively new wrinkle, too, as Europe has mandated new data privacy processes in the wake of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Working with Regulators.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 8, 2017

based retailer offering its shoppers financial services via Tandem. House of Fraser currently offers consumers credit and loyalty cards; it said it will detail how it will use its new relationship with Tandem in the first half of 2017. The funding comes as part of an agreement that will have the U.K. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Presented by Afterpay and featuring an interview with Daniel Demsky , co-founder of travel clothing retailer Unbound Merino , this report detailed the way installment payment plans’ popularity have surged during the pandemic, and research correctly suggested it would become only more popular during the holiday season. Buy Now, Pay Later.

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Abrigo

MARCH 3, 2021

Fraudulent, altered, counterfeit, or stolen EIP checks, Automated Clearing House (ACH) deposits, and prepaid debit cards. Treasury check or deposits related to a prepaid debit card linked to the same address (e.g., BSA Rules and Regulation. Treasury but are fraudulent or counterfeit checks. Deposits of one or more EIP U.S.

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CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2019

I knew I’d have to hand out my card and I thought information security engineer sounded so boring,” Tabriz later said, “Guys in the industry all take it so seriously, so security princess felt suitably whimsical.”. Retail Jedi. Tax Wrangler. That’s when the young coder hired decided to rebrand. Digital Prophet.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Card-issuing platform Marqeta has been tapped by Goldman Sachs to power digital checking accounts for Marcus. trillion COVID-19 relief package, including an additional $1,400 stimulus checks, $400-per-week unemployment benefits, expanded paid leave and an increase in the child tax credit. President-elect Joe Biden will push for a $1.9

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. In addition, regulators claimed that as many as 80% of insurance plans sold in Washington state by Zenefits reps were sold illegally by unlicensed brokers. Table of contents.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

Today, thanks to convenient technological advancements, a vast number of merchants – from mom-and-pop shops to traveling retailers – are increasingly able to accept payments via mobile solutions. Even lemonade stands can take credit cards if they’re equipped with a smartphone or tablet. and other Western nations.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Nasty Gal: Applying the hyper-growth model to physical retail is hard. Total Funding: $60M.

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