PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

As consumers shop amid ongoing public health restrictions, they almost invariably reach for their credit cards — whether the physical varieties in their wallets or the digital versions stored on their browsers and mobile devices. More than ever, credit cards are becoming the coin of the realm in the global connected economy.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

This includes shifts in which consumers are shopping and paying, and in the payment tools or methods they are using to finalize their transactions. consumers now count themselves as “ debit-centric ” users, a sizable jump over the 33 percent who said the same about credit cards. Another study found that 55 percent of U.S.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

In financial services, demand for ease of use and security are sky-high, even for business customers. The cloud has emerged as an essential tool to enable financial service providers to digitize and remain agile enough to provide the kinds of convenient, responsive services and products their customers require.

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MAY 5, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Mitch Pangretic, senior vice president of strategic partnerships at Elan , said that in-person card fraud may have decreased thanks to EMV chips and multi-factor authentication, but card-not-present (CNP) scams are increasingly gaining traction. Interacting With The Cardmember.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

As corporate card innovation accelerates, new paths to adoption emerge. Visa To Support USDC Card Payments. Visa To Support USDC Card Payments. Dollar Coin (USDC), Visa is reportedly planning to support USDC payments via its corporate card products. Adflex Drives Card Adoption Within Supply Chains.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Fraudsters have grown adept at finding debit cards’ weak points, and merchants are struggling to keep up. Losses due to false credit and debit card declines — in which merchants reject legitimate orders on the mistaken belief that they are fraudulent — grew to $118 billion last year and are projected to reach $443 billion by 2021.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Retailers must protect customers’ card data from hackers who try to snatch payment details, and following best practices to ensure security requires adhering to the regulations established by the PCI SSC, a global payments industry forum. Compliance Complexities.

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MARCH 18, 2020

That’s because things that seemed like add-ons when it came to digital banking even five years ago — card controls, instant virtual card issuance, self-service security, mobile deposit capture — are now table stakes. “In Cards — debit or credit — they say, are not really their core business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

But for B2B payment solution providers, the need for speed was coupled with another challenge: Technologies had to be built to address new and emerging use cases as payment scenarios were rapidly altered, perhaps permanently. Balancing Consumerization With Security. Second, they need transaction security and control.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 25, 2024

What have your Credit Card ’s ancestors been up to? There’s probably nothing new we can tell you about the Credit Card. Today, we’re aiming at remedying that, so we’re all left with a new-found respect for our spend-friends and who knows, maybe it’ll just inspire us to go find the right Credit Card to fit our finances!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

billion chip-enabled consumer cards — credit and debit — are now in use across the world, according to EMVCo , the industry standard organization. Globally, more than 75 percent of all cards are now enabled with EMV chip technology. In development for over a decade, SmartMetric began designing products with biometric technology.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Many of the tools that have traditionally been used to track payments and manage spending have now fallen out of step with what businesses currently need in today’s digital environment. so having a system or tool that makes it very simple to. Bringing Virtual Cards To A Virtual B2B World.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

The commercial credit card is increasingly viewed as a critical tool for these small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in need of fast access to credit, but many financial institutions are going further to nix fees on their card programs, including card products for small firms. Comdata Fuel Cards Facilitate Factoring.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Mooncard, a France-based FinTech that provides businesses with payments cards and expense management solutions, has announced $5.7 Mooncard combines a physical card solution with a digital expense management platform to streamline the spend management process for businesses. Separate reports in La Tribune on Tuesday (Jan. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Cash-out scams, he noted, used to be about harvesting thousands and perhaps even hundreds of thousands of gift and prepaid cards in a heist. What was once limited to defrauding retailers at the physical point of sale with counterfeit cards is now digital, and accomplished by a variety of methods.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Los Angeles-based immigrant-focused technology solution provider Welcome Technologies has announced that it has selected PSCU to provide processing and support services for its first credit card offering. To get the full story, download the Tracker.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Commercial cards continue to explore more use cases to optimize spend for businesses, from accounts payable (AP) to employee travel and expense management. Increasingly, the corporate card industry is also looking at ways to take advantage of the unique challenges in particular industries. Mastercard Expands EU Biz Card Offerings.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

With corporate travel still on pause, commercial card innovation has taken a different direction. This week’s look at the latest initiatives explores how FinTechs are wielding the corporate card in ways other than business trips, from accessing credit for accounts payable to financing employee lunches. Nium Uses Cards For Credit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Visa announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is rolling out enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, a global solution designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account. As part of the upgrade, Visa said it was enhancing its systems to support 3-D Secure 2.0,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management. and India, alternative small business lending technology company CreditEnable has revealed a $2 million seed round, according to Inc42 reports. With headquarters in both the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One study determined that roughly one-third of consumers have been victimized by fraud, leading them to contact their financial institutions (FIs) to change login credentials, cancel credit cards and guard against suspicious transactions. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters. Bigger Banks And The Problems With Data Security.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

FinTech unicorn Airwallex is partnering with Visa to introduce a borderless card for businesses, the companies announced on Wednesday (Feb. The Airwallex Borderless Card is being debuted in Australia after being introduced at the innovation festival Pause Fest 2020 taking place in Melbourne Feb. and Hong Kong.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Visa announced that since their inception, chip cards have reduced counterfeit fraud by 87 percent. . Chip cards are increasingly becoming the norm as usage and acceptance has continued to grow since the EMV standard was first introduced in 2011,” the company said. Also down were overall card-present fraud rates.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

As chief financial officers (CFOs) become more familiar with the opportunities of virtual card adoption, they’re also becoming more well-versed on their biggest challenges. This challenge can quickly lead to discouraged finance teams that abandon the effort to implement a v-card program altogether. ” Mixing Payments Tools.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

These attacks have grown more sophisticated as technology advances, and fraudsters are furthering their schemes with synthetic identity fraud, or scams in which bad actors invent new identities specifically for criminal purposes. Many FIs are thus relying on AI or ML tools to automate authentication.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Companies therefore must either invest in teams of AML specialists or in fraud-fighting technologies. . The September AML/KYC Tracker examines the latest fraud challenges and efforts to ensure tight security and compliance. . Cannabis delivery platform Eaze Technologies was recently targeted by misconduct allegations as well.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

The government has since turned to prepaid debit cards to reach some of the millions of citizens who fell through the cracks in the early phase of the program. Some firms already had digital tools and platforms in place to streamline their payroll operations, but many others have had to scramble to adapt to these new realities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Debit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms of fraud, forcing them into a delicate balancing act. Security challenges are mounting, too.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Meanwhile, commercial cards, while they can help digitize B2B payments, remain pretty low on the totem pole of accounts payable payment rails. Research from NACHA found accounts receivable professionals expect cards to account for 12.5 It’s actually a more secure way for customers to pay their vendors,” he told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many companies are becoming interested in replacing paper check payments with those conducted via virtual cards or other means, according to Meitra Aycock , senior vice president of corporate payment operations at B2B payments solutions provider Comdata. Firms that are interested in AP tools may still struggle to adopt them, however.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

But interest in this technology is not limited to the food and beverage space, and is gaining traction in many different verticals. At the same time, new technologies are coming on the market to serve these merchants. And technology and payments firms are collaborating to bring offerings to market.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Payment processing firm CardConnect is targeting transaction security with its latest offering. The encryption tool, part of a suite of similar solutions offered by CardConnect, will allow software firms to integrate encryption with both cloud-based software apps and physical devices for card-present transactions.

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JULY 3, 2019

In a press release issued Tuesday (July 2), Palmarius Advisors announced that its AP solution provides automated reconciliation and increased security to mitigate the risk of fraud while simplifying accounts payable transactions. Our clients love how they can now generate additional revenue every time they pay their suppliers or vendors.”.

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