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DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the report, cybercrime touched nearly every sector throughout 2018, including those that may seem less obvious, like education or manufacturing — and for one obvious reason: the money. Facebook’s 2018 regarding the stewardship of user data and privacy was one it would like to soon forget.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2018

Things we’re reading today include … This Is the Bank with the Worst Reputation in America Metro Bank has a credibility problem Why bank mergers are always riskier than markets think Study Reveals Millennials Shun Banks with Poor Online Service Starling Bank card design reflects ‘how we actually use our … The post Things worth (..)

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The divide between digital and brick-and-mortar commerce hit a tipping point this holiday season, with more consumers than ever going online to kick off their holiday shopping sprees. Three in four shoppers bought items online and three in 10 shoppers bought items exclusively online. Our research shows that 74.1 It is also 27.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. One area of development that J.P.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Checkbook has joined Visa 's FinTech Fast Track program and launched Virtual Cards , a program that will expand the reach of real-time payments, according to a press release. Virtual Cards were created by Checkbook to reduce the fear of losing a wallet or being a target of credit fraud, according to the release.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

JPMorgan Chase had the highest "buzz ranking" among banks in 2018, according to YouGov's Brand Index, an annual poll measuring which brands are considered the best by consumers. Participants were asked, “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best strategy to remain competitive in today’s financial services landscape is often to collaborate with (not against) those FinTech firms. Visa Acquires Longtime Partner Fraedom.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- Is the prepaid card market saturated? In 2018, we will likely see fewer cards, but an increase in dollar loads,” Brown told Bank Innovation. Not quite, based on insights Sue Brown, director of prepaid debit advisory service at Mercator Advisory Group shared with Bank Innovation. “In

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The 2018 predictions seem more like a laundry list of trends and tactics that’ve emerged over the last several years than a discussion of the profound impact these trends have had on the consumer and business payments experience. Tomorrow, we’ll publish our latest online Checkout Conversion Index (CCI), a study we do every quarter.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Consumers won’t be walking up to a cashier after standing in a checkout line to swipe a card when they visit a store. In a world where, as the Census says, 90 percent of retail sales still happen in the physical store, cards rule. It also purchased online pharmacy PillPack , and owns Zappos and fashion eTailer Shopbop.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

And so, as 2018 begins, so does the Start Path class of 2018, which is accepting applications until Jan. The process for startups is as straightforward as completing a very simple form online and, if the company wishes, submitting a reference. “We The Start Path Admissions Process.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In a blog post , the company noted that “nearly half of all items” purchased through online grocery involve fresh products such as meat and produce. Amazon might have kicked off the year of cashierless checkout with its Amazon Go store in January , but the concept took off in other parts of the world in 2018. The offering comes as 4.9

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JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2018 the Supreme Court struck down a 1984 federal law that prohibited gambling in most states. And that opened up an entirely new playing field for online gaming establishments now free to operate in any state that would allow them. Or Michigan, which starts online gambling Friday, Jan. There have been advances.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

In the year ago first quarter, the growth rate had been about 27 percent as measured against 2018’s first-quarter volumes. CEO Jack Dorsey noted on the earnings call that new and existing sellers continued to transition from in-store commerce to online channels, aided by curbside pickup and delivery.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Amid collaborative efforts between traditional payment players and some smaller tech-nimble upstarts, the card giants are boosting their efforts to help FinTech firms bring new products to market. has three new features, including Global Reach, billed as a new card-issuing “territory expansion service.”.

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Accenture

MAY 30, 2019

Each quarter, Ryan Douglas from the Card Issuing group compiles key metrics on US consumer credit cards, tracking spend, receivables, loss rates and returns reported by the largest US banks. Banks appear optimistic about the economic outlook but expect more moderate growth than 2018. Key themes. New partnerships.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Italian consumers are embracing a new government program aimed at boosting retail sales while tamping down on tax evasion that allows buyers to receive a 10% refund on card payments made in stores. At the same time, commercial credit cards’ cash advances dropped 14 percent last year. The program, which began on Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Will Tom Brady turn in his jersey after the game for an AARP card and hit the celebrity golf circuit? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. Which brands will blow it? More about that in just a bit, though.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Some families and students have turned to online tutoring to get extra one-on-one education support after many schools closed early in the spring and as digital classes begin to ramp up for fall. This could drive employers to seek to use more all-in-one card-issuing and management platforms to streamline the administration.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. The GSA is estimated to spend around $6 billion per year on open market credit card purchases.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Carding shops offer bulk sales on compromised payment card data. Carding shops are underground marketplaces that traffic in compromised payment card data. These marketplaces facilitate the movement of compromised payment card data from hackers to fraudsters, often across faraway geographies. Fraud Prevention.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Gambling Commission is banning the use of credit cards for placing bets, the BBC reported on Tuesday (Jan. adults are gamblers, with almost half of those people placing their bets online. Gambling Commission indicates that 22 percent of online gamblers who use credit cards to place bets are considered “problem gamblers.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

But over the course of 2018 — and literally dozens of conversations with the ambitious entrepreneurs who have successfully launched matchmaking platforms — we did hear an awful lot of good ideas on how to make the right match, how to get to scale — and how to make money while doing it. percent, plus $.30 30 per transaction.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The following piece was written by Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages Pro , as a contribution to our 2018 year-end eBook. . Payments 2018 was a year of accelerated disruption. Then came checks, credit cards and wire transfers, with the most recent market explosion in several digital payment options. Historically, cash was king.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. consumers were expected to spend more than $190 billion online this season, up 36 percent from 2019, while in-store commerce was predicted to fall by 4.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A recent study about how people respond to scammers shows that consumers are more likely to become victims on social media and online marketplaces than over the phone, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday (Sept. The gift cards are sold at a discount in exchange for cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Other fraudsters are deploying phishing schemes to net their ill-gotten gains, either using the stolen data themselves or selling it online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

And they’re also “the most likely to say they will keep shopping online once daily life returns to normal.”. More than 54 percent of those who are shopping for groceries online say they will likely be vaccinated. Our shopper will use her card-on-file with her supermarket. How She Thinks About Vaccines.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2017

EXCLUSIVE -Payment card issuing platform Marqeta will be launched in Canada next month and Europe in 2018, Marqeta’s CEO, Jason Gardner told Bank Innovation. Marqeta uses open API technology to process payment cards, virtual cards and mobile authorization products. Based in Oakland, Calif.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Membership in Visa gives Coinbase the ability to offer the Coinbase Card , which enables its customers to spend cryptocurrency as easily as using cash from their bank account. “We Coinbase has been working with Visa since 2019, when it launched its Coinbase Card in the U.K. The company debuted the card in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

There’s also the safety of using debit in contactless payments, he said, where issuers had, fortuitously from a timing perspective, accelerated their issuance of contactless cards coming into 2020 and before the age of COVID-19. Card and digital transactions account for the remaining 40 percent, representing a greenfield opportunity (i.e.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2019

Citigroup is the world’s largest credit-card issuer, with about 28 million customers, but the gap between its credit business and retail banking has grown larger. To combat this, Citi has begun testing perks for credit cards to encourage customers to get other banking products.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

A new report has revealed that Fortnite’s in-game currency is being used to launder money from stolen credit cards. According to a report by The Independent and cybersecurity firm Sixgill , a hacker will access someone else’s credit card information, and then use it to create a Fortnite account and buy V-bucks, which is the game’s currency.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2018

EXCLUSIVE— Mobile-only bank account Chime hopes to sign 100,000 new accounts on its platform by the end of January 2018, in keeping with the growth that has lead the banking service to open 750,000 accounts so far, the bank stated. Chime’s banking services, including its Visa-branded debit card, are provided by The Bancorp Bank.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

“People want to be able to pay however they want, including with cards, digital wallets, alternative payment methods and rewards points. A 2018 Ipsos study found that 25 percent of people have abandoned a transaction because their preferred payments provider wasn’t available,” said Jim Magats , senior vice president, omni payments, PayPal.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A good education on this online retail trend — an education backed by original data — comes from Azita Habibi, business development lead at Braintree , a payments services firm owned by PayPal. online shoppers leave behind $1.79 ACH is still a batch-based system and is speeding up their funds” but is not instant, he clarified.

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