PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Facebook users will now be able to send and receive peer-to-peer money transfers through PayPal from within the social media website’s Messenger app. Last year, the companies teamed up to allow customers to shop with PayPal from within the Facebook’s Messenger app. consumers today.”. consumers today.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sixteen days from today will mark not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade. The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect. Armed with new tech, mobile devices, data and the cloud, they fast-tracked the shift from a largely analog world to the app-based economy of today.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect. Armed with new tech, mobile devices, data and the cloud, they fast-tracked the shift from a largely analog world to the app-based economy of today. Payments will power that shift. Today, there are 7.3 Today, there are 7.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Russian legislator Fedot Tumusov sent a draft bill to the country’s lower parliamentary body that calls for a limit of 20 percent on commissions for the sale of mobile apps, Reuters reported. For example, the company intends to pass on a new 2 percent U.K. Amazon Gets the Green Light for Drones. and other countries.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2018

Invisible payments are convenient…until they’re not. From paying for groceries through Apple Pay to paying for a ride on Lyft, many popular services today require nothing but a phone – no need to pull out a credit card or sign a receipt. Yet just because these payments can’t be seen doesn’t mean they aren’t at risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Analyst: Amazon Prime Subscription Worth $180 Today. The company completed an agreement to acquire a 40 percent stake of Sinopharm Holding GuoDa Drug Store. Kuwait Finance House Teams Up With Visa For Mobile Wallet.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Part of the challenge with commerce today is that an individual or business does not have a central storage place for the assets they own or the assets they have purchased in the past. Access is limited, and companies like CoreLogic and Autobureau have whole business models around making the information easily obtainable.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today, you can read about the latest retail investment — and it’s a big one — in distribution, along with Walmart’s move into podcasting. Home Depot Invests $1.2B to Speed up Deliveries. The retailer is planning on investing $1.2

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The Paypers

APRIL 1, 2020

Australia-based Gobbill , a fraud detection and payment automation company, and AirPay , a China-based mobile payment company, have integrated Alipay and WeChat payment functionality into a media platform called Today Australia.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

Recently, the company made a play to up its P2P payments cred as other social media and messaging services break into the space. While Facebook’s Messenger app has enabled peer-to-peer payment since 2015, the latest upgrade sees the company rolling out group payment options for Android mobile and desktop users.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

CEO Jon Prideaux of mobile payments platform Boku told Karen Webster in a recent discussion that Boku did about $5 billion in carrier billing services in 2019 and is past $2.6 But today, telcos and digital service providers are increasingly bundling digital goods directly into a consumer’s telecom subscription.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

As has been well-known, the department store firm is looking to drive traffic through the Amazon returns program, through which the company will accept “eligible” Amazon items without labels or boxes. Facebook: The social media firm has debuted tools that let users separate their web browsing history from their personal profiles.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Collectively, they now drive $130 billion in mobile commerce sales. That increase in mobile commerce spending is underpinning a shift in consumers’ shopping preferences. The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon. Around the Omni Developer World.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

Tech companies are spending big on research and development (R&D). tech companies invested a total of $76 billion in the field last year, Recode reported. Here’s how these companies are investing in R&D — and ushering in the next generation of retail technology. In 2017, for example, FactSet found that five U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

This rate of growth, noted CEO Daniel Zhang, is the highest the company has achieved since its IPO. Revenue from the company’s core eCommerce business was up 47 percent to 31.57 Mobile monthly active users hit over 507 million. The company reported that monetization of mobile commerce platforms outpace that of desktop.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As turkeys soak up a few more hours of brining today, the holiday season is just about set to pop — and along with it are the to-do lists of consumers juggling duties as gift givers, gourmet chefs and party hosts. The mobile money tides seem to be changing. Around the Omni Developer World. and France later this year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) eCommerce platform is called Sky.Garden, and merchants use its virtual shelves to peddle everything from mobile phones and electronics to fashion, from household items and décor to art, and even safety equipment. Today, it hosts 1,000 merchants and counting.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Today if one says the word eBay anywhere in the U.S. — EBay Internet was the name of Omidyar’s umbrella company that was the parent to four sites. Of the four, AuctionWeb was the only one that really caught on with customers and was more often referred to as eBay than by its actual name by both customers and in media coverage.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

By the cultural standards of today, the technology is ancient, born amid hot jazz and bootleg booze, when memories of the slaughters of the “The Great War” — now called World War I — were still fresh enough to hurt. Such companies as Expedia, Citi and JetBlue reportedly have used Samba technology to craft personalized ads.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It was the main question put to a panel of payments and customer-facing professionals who told Karen Webster that the “old” ways of doling out rewards, on a merchant-by-merchant, point-by-point basis — even with thresholds in place before redemption — no longer applies. The technology is there; firms just have to make use of it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

So are we — but not before we give you a chance to catch up on the important payments and commerce news you might have missed. Citi: Why and How to Bring More Collaboration to Payments. As it turns out, “ payments is a team sport ,” at least in the view of Manish Kohli, global head of payments and receivables at Citi.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The worth of the global tourism industry today has ballooned to a whopping $7 trillion, with Chinese citizens taking more and more trips. The May edition of the PYMNTS.com X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™ looks at the latest trends shaping cross-border travel payments and ranks the industry players in the space.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

While many companies have incorporated automation into their businesses, accounts receivables has been lagging to catch up to the digital revolution. – B2B payment trends – how are businesses paying today, and what does this mean for AR? – Network-based payment solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While mint chocolate chip ice-cream might be the way to a foodie’s heart, MintChip digital currency is not the way to a millennial’s mobile wallet, apparently — at least not in Liberty Village, Toronto. South Korea Is Mega Mobile. Korean consumers see no evil in mobile payments. is that Android mobile users in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2016

With more than 700 million records breached in 2015, fraudsters continue to find new ways to gain access to companies’ and people’s financial and personal information. Today, fraudsters make use of tools, data and opportunity when making an attack. Karen also serves as a member of the advisory board for several emerging companies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you can remember all the way back to an interview with Warren Buffett about why payments was the next big thing to watch in the world (and a lime-green design scheme that was, well, regrettable), you’ve been here since day one. As Nan Siler, head of payment and financial operations at Kabbage, noted, it’s been a pretty wild ride, thus far.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

The new promoted stickers will sit on the top of Twitter’s list of photo editing tools, meaning that stickers sponsored by Pepsi or other companies will be the first seen by users after they open the editing menu. They can only be applied to photos via the Twitter Android and iOS apps but can be viewed across all mobile apps and the web.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, Affirm has launched a new app that will let customers use the service to pay almost anywhere online or in the real world. It could also serve to increase the pressure on eCommerce operators to make online as well as mobile stores accessible to consumers with disabilities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For many in payments and the vast ecosystem that it powers, the scariest thing about Oct. The 2019 planning sessions that will mark the next 60 days will no doubt include topics of conversation about the scariest things in payments that could knock key players off their game – or turn their plans upside down.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Attorney General William Barr because the social media platform’s plans to encrypt messages on Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram might be too private. Theme park company Six Flags also got into hot water with a claim that it collected a teenager’s fingerprints without consent. Last week, Facebook came under scrutiny from U.S.

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FICO

MAY 15, 2023

Most significantly, the new process has increased payments annually by AUD$19 million as compared to AGL’s previous two-way SMS campaigns. This has been driven by a nearly 30 percent increase in immediate, one click payments from customers. You can read more about this story in the full media release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Readers of this space no doubt know that in payments, the devil is in the details — in the numbers that pop up as dots to be connected, pointing toward tomorrow’s trends today. Think Global, Pay Local : One emerging theme in payments has been the growth of recurring payments. Separately, the same study found that 26.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

“Only a fraction of their volume today as a segment is digital,” Slice Founder and CEO Ilir Sela told PYMNTS in an interview. With platforms such as Slice, pizzeria owners can compete with the larger players through a mobile-optimized website and tools that enable customers to place orders through social media channels.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

From Amazon headquarters suitors and the iPhone X to Facebook and Google payments and Microsoft’s attempt at a smart speaker, we bring you each company’s top stories of the week — just in case you missed it. The eCommerce giant has teamed up with First Data and Clover POS to power mobile order ahead from the Amazon mobile app.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

After consumers go through that process, they can “try on” the items through a setup that Zaveri describes as “one of the most powerful digital experiences in commerce that exists today.” If a customer is not satisfied, the company will remake the eyewear. And Instagram as well as Snapchat are second nature to them. (He

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. The challenge for a payment network then becomes finding ways to maintain a consistent, reliable consumer experience across a growing number of devices. This is the third wave for our industry,” McLaughlin told Webster. “I

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William Mills

DECEMBER 19, 2017

William Mills Agency , the largest independent public relations and content marketing firm specializing in the financial industry, announced today that it will provide PR services to BankLabs. It’s paperless, accessible from any mobile device or computer, drives productivity and modernizes the experience for all parties involved.

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