Payments Dive

MARCH 7, 2024

With its acquisition of the card network, Capital One seeks to elevate Discover’s brand while also working to expand its acceptance abroad.

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Payments Dive

JULY 18, 2024

Consumer advocates say the merger will stifle competition and give the combined company an easy avenue to raise fees on card payments.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The transaction would give a big boost to a bank well-known for its credit card component, yet lend regulatory gravitas and investment dollars to a struggling card network.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Corporates of all sizes and verticals are taking an introspective look at internal operations to pinpoint areas of opportunity for working capital optimization. “On the buyer side, utilizing cards and shifting away from checks, wire and ACH provides a new credit instrument.” Optimizing Card Spend.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The rapidly evolving payments industry is driving industry leaders to adapt their strategies in response to emerging trends. Payments Trend #1: AI-Driven Payment Innovations The landscape of payments and financial services in 2025 will be marked by groundbreaking innovations and user-centric designs powered by Generative AI (GenAI).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Wells Fargo is beefing up its digital payments arsenal with a new service aimed at business customers. 19) announced in a press release that it is adding a new solution to its WellsOne Virtual Commercial Card , enabling business customers to digitally pay invoices to suppliers and others. The financial services giant on Thursday (Nov.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cryptocurrency-focused investment firms and organizations poured capital into the gift card company that says it focuses on “blockchain-powered payments.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

From coordinating a team of newly remote workers to assessing new business models, the coronavirus pandemic is drastically disrupting the way organizations run and it is forcing a complete rethink of almost every aspect of operations — payments included. While it’s still early days, Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Capital One Financial Corp (CapOne) is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “risky,” Reuters reported on Monday (Dec. Customers who use their debit cards or checking accounts can still make BNPL payments, the CapOne spokeswoman said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Danske Bank , the Copenhagen-based retail bank, has partnered with FinTech firm Zenegy to roll out a new method for automating payments made with corporate cards, a report from Crowdfund Insider says. The corporate card is going through a change this year, like many other parts of the business world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Although commercial cards are evolving to gain traction in more B2B payment scenarios — particularly, accounts payable (AP) — new challenges emerge that can slow down the rate of adoption. Billtrust, REPAY Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Tat Capital Debuts Value-Add For Corporate Cards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2020

Banks are bracing for fallout as more people struggle to make credit card payments due to lost paychecks amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Credit card companies — Capital One, Discover, Synchrony — have been allowing people to pause payments for 30 days or more.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In B2B payments, the commercial card has experienced a dramatic spike in adoption this year as organizations accelerated their digital transformations and, unable to physically enter the office, began to rely on electronic payments to conduct their business. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

For B2B payments , the pandemic may be the final nail in the coffin of the paper check — and the plastic commercial card, too. Those pain points center around cash flow, manual processes (where employees match invoice and payment data), and the management of suppliers. Streamlining Payments For Buyers And Suppliers Too .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Convoy , which works in digital freight, announced a new service called Convoy Factoring, which is powered by Apex Capital and touted as a cost-efficient, quick payment method for B2B needs for freight carriers, according to a press release. The rate will be for zero percent for any Convoy loads and 1 percent to 2.99

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, American Express launched co-branded credit cards with Amazon targeting small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Britain, while Volopay is teaming with Nium for a new and enhanced corporate credit card. million in Blumberg Capital-led seed funding. in Seed Funding.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

London cloud-processing platform Form3 is partnering with Mastercard to enhance and streamline real-time payments worldwide. By harnessing the power of cloud-based architecture, financial institutions will be able to “safely and securely handle significant payment processing volume in near-real time.” . Faster Payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

With businesses large and small increasingly turning their attention toward recovery efforts, the commercial credit card market is exploring ways to help their corporate card holders. Commercial Card, Global Commercial Services, Courtney Kelso in a statement. Neat Debuts Its Visa Card For Small Businesses.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Long before the pandemic, consumers were trending toward digital in their financial services relationships — experimenting with mobile wallets, digital cards, self-service mobile banking and digital gifting. The folks that have formalized a digital strategy and have been executing on it were much more able to capitalize on these trends.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Wells Fargo & Co is seeking to sell its private-label credit card and point-of-sale (POS) financing unit as part of an ongoing strategic review of its businesses. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. Wells Fargo also reported heightened debit card usage.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

16), at the same time that it launched a first-of-its-kind payments product, CT Cash, to help truckers manage payments. CT Cash is a free instant pay and cash card product developed in collaboration with Visa. CT Cash is a free instant pay and cash card product developed in collaboration with Visa.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Razorpay Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur said the company is working with Visa on a new corporate card, according to YourStory. This new card is specifically designed for small business owners to weather the impact of COVID-19," the post stated.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Virtual cards and straight-through processing (STP) are poised to get more attention from buyers and suppliers as the pandemic recedes. Suppliers, he said, have traditionally been less amenable to commercial card payments, but are increasingly starting to accommodate buyers’ payment preferences.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Japan’s history of mobile payments progress is one of the more curious stories in the field. And yet Japan remains a heavily cash-based economy, Darren Abrahamson , managing director of Bain Capital Tech Opportunities told Karen Webster. Abrahamson said the government is also giving merchants incentives to buy contactless terminals.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Cape , a new Australian FinTech made up of professionals in finance, is debuting its new “recession fighting” credit card, powered by open banking and intended to allow access to new functions like buy now, pay later (BNPL), according to a report from AltFi. Common plans offer four-installment payments as ways to buy items.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Like many venture capital companies in the payments space, Serent Capital has had a busy year. The first was the investment in early December of procure-to-pay healthcare payments company Procurement Partners. 15 with the announcement of the launch of its fourth fund, Serent Capital IV — at $750 million.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The payments digitization push has ramped up for corporates in recent months, with growing corporate card adoption attributed to the pandemic, recent Mastercard data reveals. Lawmakers Eye Expanded Fleet Card Use. Fleet service cards act just like credit cards at a gas station," Rep. Lawmakers in the U.S.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While both Mastercard and Visa will be impacted by Discover Financial Services’ plan to be acquired by card issuer Capital One, the former is likely to bear the brunt of the blow.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

And those three years have given rise to a slew of new companies capitalizing on that initiative all over the world, as well as established companies making their mark. I’ve spent the last 15 years of my career in payments, and it’s something that has been an increasing problem throughout,” Soliman said in an interview with PYMNTS.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 20, 2025

A partnership gives the card network a wider reach at a time when its proposed merger with Capital One still awaits regulatory approvals.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

At the dawn of 2020, commercial cards made up only a fraction of overall B2B payments volume, even as corporates continued their slow-but-sure payments digitization efforts away from the paper check. But in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the corporate card seemed to unlock more value for businesses large and small.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For small, mom-and-pop retailers, complex or proprietary procurement platforms simply aren't in the cards. Another major hurdle, both Dean and Ward explained, is security, particularly when it comes to payment. The card, he explained, is a valuable tool to address key working capital pain points for both buyer and seller. "We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

EnKash , a digital platform and payment solution provider, has entered into an alliance with Mastercard to expand the usage and acceptance of commercial cards in India and provide a B2B digital payment automation platform, according to a press release. Suppliers will have improved cash flows.

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Payments Dive

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Synchrony, American Express and Capital One have all been floated by analysts as potential successors to Goldman Sachs for Apple’s credit card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The B2B payments ecosystem experienced a sudden and dramatic acceleration of change upon the onset of the global pandemic, and its impacts reach far beyond the mere digitization of the B2B transaction. In Mastercard's case, that involves embracing a mix of interoperable payment rails via its Mastercard Track Business Payment Service.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Leavitt , founder and CEO of Boost Payment Systems , told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass that businesses large and small that have traditionally relied on the manual processes associated with writing checks or wiring funds to pay their suppliers are increasingly using commercial credit cards for payment instead.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Goldman Sachs has beat out competitor Barclays to buy General Motors (GM)'s credit card business, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). In their pitches to GM, both Goldman and Barclays promoted the idea of cars as eCommerce portals, a notion supported by auto makers and card networks like Visa and Mastercard.

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