Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

EXCLUSIVE -Fintech startup Token has inked a major partnership with payment processor Marqeta and Mastercard that tremendously expands its reach in the online retail space, just in time for the holidays. “By And that is a huge market because […].

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

They are using everything from cash to mobile wallets to complete these transactions, requiring retailers to race to accommodate a wide variety of payment methods. She explained that consumers do not generally think much about the payments piece of the shopping experience unless it does not work.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Apple Pay was trending across social media today on news the payment option will soon be accepted at Target, Taco Bell and other major U.S. The company touted the service’s ease of use, security and speed at the register. According to Apple, 74 of the top 100 U.S. merchants now accept Apple Pay. But […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Online marketplaces are connecting retailers, consumers and nonprofits amid the pandemic. In marketing, Amazon and Walmart are busy getting ready for what could be the largest shopping week of the year, with Prime Day and other events approaching. consumers stating that security is important when shopping online.

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JULY 1, 2019

The financial services landscape is moving to upgrade existing payment infrastructures or create new systems to deliver faster and more secure payments. In the business-to-business (B2B) space, efforts to truly transform payments are fraught with challenges. All this, Today In Data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

Emotions play a significant role in all human endeavors, and that certainly goes for payments and commerce. Indeed, the role of emotions in payments and commerce in this digital age looks sure to grow even more. Retailers and companies involved in retail-and-payments-related ecosystems are getting into the facial recognition game, too.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Iain McNicoll , VP of Americas/SMB for payments platform Payoneer , recently told PYMNTS that eCommerce’s market share has risen to 27 percent from just 16 percent when the pandemic began. McNicoll said the quick gains aren’t surprising, as physical retail stores essentially closed down worldwide for months.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Cautious shoppers may find comfort in debit, with fraud losses associated with the payment method declining over the past several years. This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Around The Next-Gen Debit World. Read this story in the Tracker.

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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. Due to consumers increasing use of cashless forms of payment for everyday transactions, there has been a rise in counter money laundering, frauds and terrorism.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The United Kingdom-based mobile commerce company recently completed the installation of the new payment option on SoftBank phones, so that customers can make purchases without having to whip out a credit card or punch in a credit card number, Bango noted in its press release. a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In the top retail news for today: Paidy has launched 3-Pay in Japan for customers to buy now and pay later, Thrive Market has been designated as a B-corporation, and Amazon is advancing its presence in Sweden with a new eCommerce site and a clean energy grid to support the tech giant’s data centers. On Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

They may enjoy strolling the aisles of physical retail, but many customers still want support features that enable them to quickly and easily find and buy items, through self-serve offerings and other automation technologies. The June Automated Retail Tracker charts all the latest developments and deployments of these models and more.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

A new report by Global Market Insights reveals that the market size for mobile POS terminals will gain significant growth in the coming years, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 19 percent from 2016 to 2023. According to a press release , the POS Terminal Industry is expected to be valued at $103.52

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

In the age of digital payments, mobile point of sale systems (POS) are making inroads with the promise of time-saving conveniences for merchants. Retailers are becoming more interested in omnichannel offerings: The PYMNTS mPOS Tracker found that 67 percent of those surveyed listed it as a priority for this year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

After the acquisition, Goldiam was able to successfully beta-test and complete a soft launch for the site, which plans to cater to a new market segment for the U.S. retail jewelry industry. On Friday, Goldiam's stocks were trading in the green, an India Infoline report said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

These two forces appear to be driving an increase in consumers’ use of touch-free debit payment options. Debit transactions are on the rise, with credit union service organization PSCU finding that the value of payments made with debit cards rose 18 percent year over year between June 29 and July 5. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

If you want to know whether stimulus checks are working to rebuild the economy, just ask the world’s largest retailer. Finance ’s morning market preview show. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided income-eligible taxpayers with a $1,200 check, or $2,400 for couples. Walmart U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

Vending machine operators have become increasingly attentive to the demand for swift digital payment options, and have benefitted from significant sales growth after enabling cashless payments. households, retailers that enable digital payments while dropping cash are less than convenient. However, for the 8.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Retailers therefore have to determine the number of speed bumps their customers are willing to put up with as well as the special features they can offer to encourage shoppers to overlook these minor inconveniences. . That is something that can be used [in security efforts], depending on the specific issue or the resolution.” .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Global online discount apparel marketplace ZAFUL, based in China, recently announced new upgrades to its payment protocols and SSL checkouts to boost the security of its eCommerce system and grow confidentiality for its individual shoppers. These new upgrades make it easier to shop and also offer more payment options.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And CVS in August became the first major retailer to introduce PayPal QR code technology, which it plans to roll out in its 8,200 U.S. The combination has prompted some businesses to outright ditch physical payment instruments and require customers to pay via a credit card on file and to tip via peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

The rise of smart vending machines, driven by data and contactless payments, has the power to upend the way we shop, building loyalty and speeding adoption of contactless payments along the way. The Changing Retail Footprint. This has become an irreversible trend,” he said.

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MAY 8, 2020

And that actually creates a massive opportunity for retailers of all kinds to jump into the digital market, he said, and grab some market share away from giants like Amazon that have been hit by an onslaught of orders. But we are seeing in our data it’s also growth,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Afterpay has announced its in-store buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is being offered by major retailers at locations across the country. Shoppers can use Afterpay to buy items in select retail stores using their Afterpay card, a virtual, contactless card stored in their digital wallet,” the firm said in a Tuesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Connected commerce is among the hottest trends in retail, and not just for streaming or ridesharing or online gaming services, but for subscription purchases, too. In fact, according to new PYMNTS research, digital services are expanding in the United States and in markets around the world. Payments Thread.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fraud could cost the market more than $25 billion this year, and approximately 20 percent of attempted travel-related transactions are confirmed to be fraudulent. Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Retailers are dutifully speaking with their payment service providers (PSPs) and industry partners to adhere to these shifts, but they must also keep their customers’ experiences in mind. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Companies that are looking to launch offices in more countries and serve customers in new markets need to be able to easily pay staff in those locations. The November/December Smarter Payments Tracker ® examines how firms are putting payroll apps and prepaid cards to use to resolve frictions for their global workforces.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Retail trends and innovation can come from unlikely places, and that seems to be the case now when it comes to pets and CBD, two hot areas of commerce that are intersecting. According to a Brightfield Group study cited by the Bloomberg report, “the CBD market could be worth almost $24 billion in the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2019

PSCU’s Lumin Digital has converted over 10,000 Mutual Security Credit Union digital users to a cloud-based platform, Lumin Digital said in a press release on Tuesday (Dec. Lumin Digital’s cloud-based digital banking platform was built using modern, market-leading technology and offers “a tightly integrated and customized experience.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Today in B2B payments, the SBA releases guidance for the next round of PPP loans, while xSuite secures Peppol invoice certification. Corporate travel management platform TripActions said in a press release that its TripActions Liquid payments and expense system now integrates with leading corporate finance systems.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). The basic idea behind LISNR is to send data securely via audio. Customer Journey.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

News came last week that Facebook is trying to get into the video streaming subscription business and attempt to steal market share from YouTube and Amazon. Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting.

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