PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Instagram is inviting a group of security researchers known as white hat hackers to stress-test its Checkout feature before it launches outside the United States. Checkout by Instagram includes participation by PayPal and its retail partnership program. The rewards can go up to $40,000 per case.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. Just under half — or 45.9

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Chipotle Mexican Grill has been the victim of a cyberattack that compromised the credit card payment information for a small number of customers. Many customers have recently posted on social media that orders placed at the restaurant fraudulently used their payment cards during the first few weeks of April.

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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

JUNE 8, 2017

The more connected devices consumers have, the more concerned they are about the security of their financial information. Today’s shoppers want the transparency of being able to verify that they’ve been charged the correct amount, and many aren’t willing to trade this security for the convenience of auto-payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. The webinar featured Karen Webster from PYMNTS and Amy Parsons, senior vice president of global acceptance at Discover Financial Services and its payments brand, Discover Global Network.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

But when it comes to the digital customer experience, retailers are playing catch-up. The issue is critical as retailers either move online or put more effort behind their eCommerce capabilities. User experience, seamless checkout, payment process, chat and security are just a few that need to be buttoned up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet analysts agree that the late B2B payments problem continues to worsen. publication The Times , small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face an extra hurdle when chasing down late payments: collection efforts can damage the buyer-supplier relationship. 90 minutes every day are spent chasing down late invoice payments among U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

Security in the digital age is a goal for most retailers and consumers — and nearly everyone else in the business world. When it comes to personal information, especially data linked to payment accounts, the level of privacy and accuracy of security are key in keeping the retail world spinning.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news, Chinese authorities have made several arrests alleging cybercriminals laundered $2 billion through faux eCommerce purchases, and Square announced the launch of two real-time payment features. Plus, Facebook could face a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust suit. Square on Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A sitting member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Haldane said that introducing a digital currency could lead to something closer to “narrow banking,” where safe payments are separated from “banks’ riskier credit-provision activities.”. The future of digital currencies, Haldane said, is uncertain and most likely varied. “If

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Move over millennials , there’s a new kid in town that is about to become nearer and dearer to retailers’ hearts: Gen Z. Gen Zers are also cautious of shopping at retailers who have had past security breaches, according to the study, with 59 percent saying they would purposely avoid shopping at such retailers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the highly connected digital age, consumers are interacting with a multitude of social media sites as well as apps and connected devices. During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing integrated shopping experiences into the sites and apps where consumers spend the most time.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2018

Royal Bank of Canada and Facebook today offered differing versions of why the social media company continued to give the bank extraordinary access to customer data after Facebook said publicly that it would stop doing so. RBC said Facebook allowed it access in order to “wind down” a payments app it first unveiled in 2013. […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the challenge for retailers now is deciding what to do next, Amazon Pay Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Wenzel told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Wenzel told Webster that what retailers need to think about is those things that actually aren’t going to change in an environment where it feels like everything is changing.

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The Paypers

JULY 22, 2016

(The Paypers) A report from payment processing company Worldpay has explored how social media activities could be used as a powerful tool for identity verification and fraud prevention.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. Trust in online platforms and social-media companies as providers of payments services is low.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Also, PayPal is introducing contactless QR codes for payments. To enable businesses to more easily list their merchandise on its social media platforms, Facebook has unveiled Facebook Shops. To help people maintain distance while venturing out for in-person transactions, PayPal has introduced contactless QR codes for payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As diehard baseball geeks pout about having to share TV time with another major sport, and most of the country goes into New England Patriot-hating mode, the digital payments and commerce industry gets pretty optimistic – and even excited. That’s because every NFL season promises to bring advances in payments. Biometric Plays.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

the global technology company specializing in retail, and JD.com Inc., The company said the funds will help with new offerings that assist its retailers in handling the evolved operating climate as well as provide diners with secure and accessible ways to transact. eBay’s Head Of Payments On Localizing Buyer-Seller Experiences.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nordstrom has suffered a data breach that exposed employee names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, checking account and routing numbers, salaries and more. Social media posts show that some former employees, who left the company months ago, have also received notification letters.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2018

Expanding upon its in-app commerce efforts, Instagram has quietly introduced a native payments feature. With the new functionality, users can register a credit or debit card and make payments within the social media platform after setting up a security PIN, TechCrunch reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The company, based in Austin, Texas, has software that allows companies to manage eCommerce sales through markets like Amazon or on social media like Instagram. The most common users, according to Bloomberg, include fashion, health and beauty, food and beverage and manufacturing and automotive retailers. 4) for $24 each.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Why Pandemic-Driven Online Payment Spikes Are Pushing Middle Eastern Regulators To Confront Privacy Questions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The trick is making self-direction easier, by enabling more context in commerce – and ensuring consumers can make equal choices between various channels with comparable levels of transparency, speed and security when they want to buy an item, manage their money or pay a bill.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Only a few years after a full rollout of Apple Pay, JCPenney has reportedly dropped the Apple Pay digital payment service in its app and brick-and-mortar stores. The retailer’s support account on Twitter noted the change during the weekend, 9 to 5 Mac reported. As it stands, the retailer has over 800 locations in 49 states in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. Retailers in high-tax states have largely not been able to build themselves up or expand online beyond their local markets to the same extent, Rogers said. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. These extensions will only be granted to a select few retailers, however. About the Tracker.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 12, 2018

That according to new documents released yesterday by Congress that contain written responses from the social media company on its data and privacy […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. Now that merchants are more responsible for fraud that happens in their stores, he said, “it’s our responsibility to teach them about these tools, like EMV, that can secure them and secure their businesses.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk. It would then use the information to recommend products.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Safeguarding Card Details.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In regions where open banking and other electronic payments pilots are becoming common, such as the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, pandemic-era payments are all about privacy, security and trust, particularly in B2B transactions. Merchants, their payment providers and their regulators must keep up,” per the new Guide.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2020

With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. That doesn’t count alienated customers who are ready to pull the trigger on social media with a bad review. Conservative estimates put online sales at $630 billion this year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Apple reportedly said that the service will not allow advertisers to track what subscribers are reading, which means no targeted ads based on consumed news stories, as is the case with social media. As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In one example, PNC Bank clients stated that they were unable to connect accounts to Venmo , the payment service owned by PayPal. And according to tweets from PNC, the bank has suggested that those Venmo users switch to Zelle, the payments offering that is run by Early Warning Systems, in turn owned by a consortium of banks — including PNC.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In the middle are the consumers whose data fuels eCommerce, social media and basically the entire internet as we know it. The Merchants’ Guide to Navigating Global Payments Regulations , powered by Ekata, dives deep into this complex and unsettled topic, from possible abrupt retail impacts to long-term open banking repercussions.

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