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Mastercard ties growth to digital strategy

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The network is advancing technologies to let consumers and businesses more easily use its cards, after doubling the number of merchants that accept them over the past five years.

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Credit Unions Encouraged To Get Aggressive With Digital Strategies

PYMNTS

She said CUs don’t need to plan for a digital holiday shopping season — it’s already here. Instead, they already need to be digitally engaging their members. The spend is happening now, which is why a strong digital strategy is critical,” Phillips said. “If Don’t be too shy or too conservative.

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The Three Things Every Digital-Card App Needs

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The wave of digitization that has picked up incredible speed in banking over the past half year isn’t strictly a new trend, Randy Piatt , head of product solutions for Ondot Systems , told PYMNTS. But then COVID-19 came along and sent the digitization of financial services into overdrive nearly overnight.

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Making Digital Card Features Stick – And Sticky

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That left FIs scrambling to “rapidly figure out how to get that same emotional and engagement outcome when the possibility of face-to-face is virtually nonexistent,” Randy Piatt , head of product solutions at card technology firm Ondot Systems , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Simple: Start with the cards.

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Goldman And BofA Earnings: A Tale Of Two Banks (And Digital Strategies)

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Digital initiatives too, of course. For Bank of America , we’re likely to see some discussion on macro trends, on consumer and commercial spending, on cards and branch count. Consumer loan balances were $7 billion, of which $4 billion stemmed from Marcus, and the remaining $3 billion from Apple Card. Bank Of America’s Take .

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Virtual-Card Adoption – Not An ‘All-Or-Nothing’ Strategy

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As chief financial officers (CFOs) become more familiar with the opportunities of virtual card adoption, they’re also becoming more well-versed on their biggest challenges. This challenge can quickly lead to discouraged finance teams that abandon the effort to implement a v-card program altogether. Going Touchless. .

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MasterCard CFO On Its Digital Strategy

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In response, the MasterCard executive said: “From a digital point of view, this is not a separate product line item for us. In fact, we are looking at digital as totally connected to the … 16-digit card number that you have on a prepaid card, on a commercial card, on a credit card, on a debit card.