PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

TSYS , a payment processing company, has suffered a ransomware attack and had some data posted online, according to a report from Krebs on Security. However, TSYS said the malware didn't jeopardize card data and that the attack had only targeted the company's administrative wing. "We This matter is immaterial to the company.”.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

They have paid down their credit cards. The main one centers on the drop in credit card spend. A new report from TransUnion shows that average consumer-level credit card balances have declined during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and now stand at $5,075 as of Q3 2020, down from $5,668 in Q3 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Goodbye, corporate expense cards and hello, “Zero Card?”. 6) rolled out its new Zero Card , a touchless, pre-paid, digital corporate expense card that the California FinTech is hoping will give the traditional corporate expense card a run for its money. Paystand on Thursday (Aug.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Payments provider Mastercard has issued a deadline for the availability of biometric authentication across its cards, stating that all customers will be able to use fingerprints or facial recognition for verification by April 2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. By early 2019, Samsung Pay’s international presence grew to six global regions. By year-end 2019, it expanded into several new countries. . has seen slow adoption compared to other regions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mao, whose company provides solutions for payments, prepaid cards and gift cards, said the only way for merchants to go is forward, because going back isn’t an option. Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth. For instance, people are simply directing more spend at gift cards this holiday season. Not All ‘Gift’ Cards Are Gifts .

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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. retail sales occurred in the last two months of 2019, marking a year-over-year increase of 4.1 A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Walmart will now accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to pay for online grocery orders at all of its pickup locations, according to a report. Placing an order with SNAP is just like ordering with a debit or credit card. When the customer gets to the store, they give their EBT card to a store associate.

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ABA Community Banking

AUGUST 10, 2020

Even before consumers’ acceleration to online shopping due to the pandemic, card-not-present debit transactions rose 21% year-on-year in 2019, according to Pulse’s debit issuer survey released today. The post P2P Payments, Card-Not-Present Drive 2019 Growth in Debit Transactions appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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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

APRIL 22, 2020

Paay, a startup credit card database storing millions of transactions, has been unsecured for weeks and only now closed again, according to a TechCrunch report. 1, 2019, showing the full plaintext credit card number, the expiration date and the amount of money spent, along with a partial showing of the credit card number.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But they show an increasing interest in online banking, an attempt to grow savings — and a higher debt burden. At a high level, noted the Federal Reserve, between 2016 and 2019, real gross domestic product grew at an annual 2.5 Median family income was up about 5 percent in the three years through 2019, to about $58,600.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It’s been said cybercriminals look for the path of least resistance when they target businesses or online marketplaces to steal data or money. And, increasingly, online gaming platforms — attractive to the bad guys due to their scale and relative anonymity — are in the crosshairs. The tools are there, but mindset matters.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Use of a charge card similarly grew year over year from 23 percent to 31 percent.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

End-to-end gift card platform Qwikcilver has launched its Woohoo virtual gift card store on the Google Pay Spot Platform to enable users in India to buy and send virtual gift cards in real time, the United News of India reported on Monday (Dec. The more upscale the restaurant, the greater the decline.

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BankBazaar

JUNE 28, 2019

Your Aadhaar card can help you win up to Rs. If you have an Aadhaar card, here’s your chance to make some quick cash easily! Here’s everything you need to know about the My Aadhaar Online contest: Deadline. The contest began on June 18, 2019 and the last date to participate is July 8, 2019. Update address online.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals are now turning to contactless cards and online shopping to safely and easily obtain needed goods. Deep Dive: Keeping Security Present Even When Cards Are N ot. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate. That’s not to say physical retail is dying.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Bank of America (BofA) announced on Tuesday (June 25) that it’s launching a digital debit card, according to a release by the company. This digital debit card has the same protections and benefits of a physical debit card and is immediately available to use in the mobile app.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company told TechCrunch that its newly launched product, called Flutterwave Store, is not a shift away from the company’s core online payments business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

But in hopes of hopping on the holiday bandwagon — and providing data-backed insight in the hottest payment trends for 2019 — allow us to offer this list of a dozen ways that consumers (and some businesses) are paying now, methods that promise to play big roles in 2019. 5: With Payment Cards. 10: With Contactless Cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

That’s where reloadable cards and instant access to funds come in — especially as the worlds of payments and commerce move further toward the goal of frictionless transactions and sports betting in the U.S. goes online. But that excitement can quickly deflate if the winning gambler then must wait for his or her winnings. In the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

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. As of April 20, Square Online Store weekly GPV was $59 million, up fivefold since earlier in the year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Payment processing was good to financial transaction provider WEX in 2019, as the company reported double-digit growth for the year in its earnings report today. While the company is known for its payment solutions aimed at fuel for fleet services, it also has grown its corporate card and U.S. healthcare business.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Flexibility will be essential to survival, and the pressure is on for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and financial service providers to migrate online as their customers continue social distancing. “It all starts with accepting that the world as we knew it in 2019 is no more,” he said in a recent discussion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Gift cards are a popular revenue stream for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), largely for the same reasons they are popular among retail businesses of all types: They bring in new customers, promote loyalty among existing customers and create additional revenues when customers exceed the value of their gift cards. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

percent as of 2019 — PYMNTS’ 2019 numbers are historic, trailing 12-month numbers based on data from Q4 2018 through Q3 2019. percent as of 2019 data. In related grocery delivery news, Amazon Fresh, the company’s online grocery delivery program that pre-existed Whole Foods, dropped its $14.99 Webster added.

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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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

PayPal finally anticipates monetizing Venmo in 2019, nearly six years after acquiring the P2P service. Venmo's revenue run-rate is over $200 million for 2019, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in the earnings call Wednesday after market close.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mastercard is partnering with CleverCards and Appreciate Group to offer gift cards directly to mobile wallets, Mastercard announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. The Select Digital Gift Card can be sent immediately by email, text or messaging app, and is available now as a last-minute Christmas present. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Last year, credit card data was stolen from online stores hosted by eCommerce software, hosting and support company Volusion. Hackers breached Volusion servers and inserted malicious JavaScript code, which made its way onto customer store websites, where it recorded payment card details when they were entered into checkout forms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“What you see through these two actions,” he told Webster, is to expand Mastercard’s role in commerce beyond cards.” And to get there, the company is leveraging the functionalities gained from its 2017 acquisition of Vocalink and its 2019 buy of Transfast to shift payments beyond traditional card rails. online bank bill pay.”.

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