PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The identity verification firm, which has been around since the early 2000s and was formed in the aftermath of 9/11, offers a subscription service that gives passengers the option to move more quickly through security lines at over 60 airports and sports stadiums around the United States. Or into a retailer, doctors office or stadium.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For retailers, it is a time of reexamination. Digital-first or digital-native retailers made it so. Retail’s own performance reflected that shift. The conversations in retail boardrooms and war rooms in November of 2021 will center on how to direct some of that pent-up demand their way. and Brazil.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

FIS, the financial services technology, and Cardtronics, the ATM owner/operator, announced Thursday (June 29) plans to integrate FIS Cardless Cash access across Cardtronics’ ATM fleet in the United States. With the technology, consumers can access their funds and authorize how much to withdraw without needing a physical card.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

EMV headlines have quieted down a bit, and in the United States, merchant acceptance of the liability shifts and its inevitability has blossomed into growing uptake. To ACI Worldwide ’s top executive, that beckons toward a wholly-changing payments landscape for retailers. First, EMV. Heasley mused. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Pretty much everyone needs medicine at one or another, and that need is helping to drive retail innovation and attempts at disruption in the pharmacy business. After its parent company announced plans earlier this year to close 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Walgreens is looking to shutter 200 locations in the United States.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

While the retail point-of-sale (POS) terminals market is currently sitting at $15 billion, Global Market Insights is expecting it to reach $45 billion by the year 2024. To help combat these efforts and meet consumers preferred payment method demands, the retail POS terminal market will need to grow to bring down harmful actions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Commerce-enabling technology provider First Data and international bankcard company UnionPay International announced Tuesday (Oct. 24) they had formed a new partnership to expand the acceptance of the UnionPay card in the U.S. to pay with their UnionPay chip, credit and debit cards at First Data merchant clients.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

16), the retailer announced in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The purchase process will involve scanning QR codes on mobile devices, CVS stated in the release. Customers at 8,200 CVS Pharmacy locations can use PayPal and Venmo to pay for purchases contact-free starting Monday (Nov. The partnership.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. 30 of this year in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.). “We In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2017

Americans have more payment options than ever before, from the digital payment info stored in mobile wallets to credit and debit cards in their physical wallets. The report found that 32 percent of transactions used cash in 2015 and that demand for cash remains strong in the United States.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Retailers are bringing omnichannel experiences to consumers by bridging the worlds of online and brick-and-mortar commerce through offerings such as buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS). Following that trend, Fast fashion apparel retailer rue21 recently announced it plans to bring the offering to more than 700 stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2016

On the EMV front, Home Depot decided it felt strongly enough about Chip and PIN that that it sue MasterCard and Visa over it.Walmart Canada decided it would stop accepting Visa cards since they say they are too expensive. And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Payments technology company InComm has acquired Linq3 Technologies with the purpose of entering the lottery industry, the company announced on Tuesday (March 12). The company uses new technologies aimed toward customer satisfaction, and attempts to attract customers at retail point of sale (POS) systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The British FinTech will harness the infusion to speed up the firm’s open banking roadmap, letting retailers transparently and expediently handle instant payments. In addition, GoCardless will grow into eCommerce and roll out bank-to-bank payments as a less costly alternative to cards. BNPL Provider Openpay Launches In US.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Community banks could put more contactless cards into the hands of consumers with the help of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). In addition, retailers are tapping into augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology as consumers adopt these emerging technologies. All this, Today In Data.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2016

No harm, no foul, more or less ; and those who stood to be most affected by the security vulnerabilities — the online retailers — hardly had to lift a finger to be protected against them. But the fact is that things don’t always sort themselves out, effectively, in the retail security game.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

Much of North America remains anchored to major-brand credit cards. As digital technology keeps bringing new efficiencies to transactions, and more consumers around the world turn to eCommerce for retail and other purchases, an accompanying trend is making life interesting for merchants and payment providers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2017

Google has long claimed that the ads it shows users actually prompt them to make purchases online and in real life – and now they have the credit card data to prove it. “To accomplish this, we developed a new, custom encryption technology that ensures users’ data remains private, secure, and anonymous.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

tap-to-pay cards play a big role in commerce. According to Visa , 40 percent of its own transactions done outside the United States are done through tap-and-pay means. Contactless cards are a comparative rarity — most issuers don’t offer them and so, not surprisingly, most consumers don’t often use them. Outside the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The UnionPay card in China is accepted by more than 80 percent of merchants in the United States, but Chinese customers are increasingly moving toward QR code payment capability. In addition to the growing adoption of Union Pay cards in the U.S., billion active bank cards in total, 5.46 cards per capita in 2018.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The firm will work with the companies for six months to find ways in which they can harness its technology, knowledge and network to propel their businesses forward. Visa is launching a new program set at linking European financial institutions (FIs) and retailers with state-of-the-art digital payment offerings.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

One might expect that in these circumstances, consumers would be even more inclined to take advantage of the contactless payment capabilities of mobile wallets, to avoid swiping their cards at point-of-sale (POS) terminals and pressing keypads touched by many other shoppers. percent reported Walmart Pay usage.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

million in Bink, a startup that lets customers store and view all their loyalty cards on a phone, and also links payment cards to get points and rewards automatically, according to reports. British financial institution Barclays has invested $12.9 Mike Jordan, the CEO of Bink , said he’s excited to be partnered with Barclays.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Studies showed that many consumers in the United States have begun tapping their debit cards more often for payments, for example, with one report finding that debit use rose about 6 percent year over year. Just 25 percent of consumers said the same regarding their credit cards during the same period.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Developers can literally come in, sign up and start building a card product,” said Gardner. The typical way of building a card product, by going to a bank and leveraging that bank’s platform, need no longer be the norm.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

While new concepts such as sleeping pods and capsule hotels are coming on the scene today, Minute Suites was founded in the late 2000s with the company offering rooms with sofa beds at busy airports across the United States such as Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Near-field communication ( NFC ) technology isn’t exactly new. For some time now, retailers have been using it and radio frequency identification (RIFD) behind the scenes for stock and quality control, as well as to provide product information to customers with smartphones. don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. In the U.S.,

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FICO

APRIL 29, 2022

There’s a lot going on in the retail payments space – defined as transactions between two consumers, between consumers and businesses, or between two businesses. Some of the changes are related to new digital payments methods like P2P apps, tap-to-pay, and cryptocurrency, which are all growing options in retail environments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

23 in the United States for some models and in November for others, will get three free months of the company’s subscription Arcade service and one year of free Apple TV+, the company noted in a Tuesday (Oct. The approach bucks a recent technology industry trend to move away from offering free subscriptions.

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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. Keep a lid on the casket talk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s not as prevalent in the United States, however, as many card issuers don’t give customers the contactless option. But there need to be cards in the market to drive adoption.”. The change happened quickly – numerous markets saw contactless usage go from single digits to more than 50 percent use within 18 to 24 months.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But for all their remarkable success in the East, QR codes never really quite caught on in the United States or most of the rest of the West. Often written off as a technological solution in desperate search of an actual problem, the QR code fell by the wayside development-wise. Second, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Canada’s Lightspeed rolled out an offering for retailers based in the United States called Lightspeed Payments, the company said in an announcement. As it stands, the company’s Lightspeed platform already serves small to medium-sized retailers. The technology is said to process a payment in 0.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Enterprise payments and banking technology firm Zeta announced a Series C funding round this week propelling the firm’s valuation to $300 million. Zeta currently operates in Asia and Latin America, connecting banks to its banking platform so those institutions can offer their own retail and corporate financial services and products.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

The demand is there: According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Disbursements Tracker , 75 percent of consumers expressed a preference for faster payments, and 84 percent of those consumers reported debit cards as their preferred way of receiving those funds. Visa Direct is the card network’s instant push payments platform.

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