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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

PSCU has appointed Denise Stevens as senior vice president and chief product officer, while Scott Young will head the product delivery leadership team as vice president of innovation, PSCU announced today (Feb. Stevens will oversee product delivery and management, as well as its innovation teams. Young will report to Stevens. “We

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Payment innovators are embracing the opportunities to mix payment rails old and new in search of business-to-business (B2B) solutions that can tackle longstanding friction. Visa To Use Card Rails For Digital Currency B2B Payments. CardUp Mixes Rails To Enable Card Payments. Dollar Coin (USDC) on the ethereum blockchain.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

To do that, and to clear the next hurdle, Whisler said many financial institutions (FIs) still need to “modernize internally to be a 24/7 operation shop.”. As far as fees are concerned, she explained that existing competition from other providers, card networks and same-day ACH will likely keep fees in line. “To RTP Outlook.

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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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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

What is the state of banking innovation today? Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation? Each year, we poll the industry to find out.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Spend management was the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to partnerships and investments in firms aiming to help companies keep track of expenses. The platform brings together virtual and physical cards for staffers, spend approvals, bill management and expenditure reimbursements.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

The New Samsung Pay Card . As digital payments and digital commerce have expanded their penetration among consumers and merchants alike, the greater usage is pushing the pace of innovation in the segment. In a typical digital-wallet offering, one registers their card credentials into the wallet directly.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The solutions will aim to bring omnichannel buying experiences to boost revenue and profit potential, the release says, especially as digital commerce continues to accelerate in use and innovation. B2B customers have come to expect vendors to have access to digital phases of the buying experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2020

While chip cards are becoming a mainstay at brick-and-mortar retail checkouts, gas pump payment technology lags behind. gas station owners until October of this year to upgrade pumps to accept EMV chip cards, rejecting a deadline extension request from the Merchant Advisory Group. Gas station operators who fail to […].

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This month’s Deep Dive examines how mobile and contactless payment options are poised to reshape the corporate payments ecosystem as well as how virtual cards can help businesses adapt their operations to the digital-first payments ecosystem that has emerged. . Reshaping Business Payments . Much of the U.S. Much of the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2020

Brex, a corporate card and financial product startup aimed at businesses, plans to broaden its product ecosystem beyond bank accounts and cards.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The virtual card can be a valuable payment solution for the enterprise thanks to the technology's security features and mobility. Yet adoption remains limited, largely thanks to corporates' ongoing use of more traditional payment methods like ACH or even physical cards. Aussie Alt-Lender Execs Team Up For Corporate Card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The pandemic has forced businesses to pivot quickly to continue their operations — both domestically and internationally — with relative ease as the health crisis affects everything from supply chains to payment schedules. They will need to continue innovating these processes to stay on top of shifting B2B trends worldwide.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Accounts payable operations are essential to ensuring that payments to a firm’s partners and suppliers are processed and delivered on time. Yet these firms were considerably more likely to embrace innovation. Additionally, a significant share of invoices (43.8 percent) arrive via snail mail. A significant share of firms, 71.1

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“Mastercard’s Vocalink business is a demonstrated leader in the real-time payments ecosystem, and they will be a valuable partner for Payments Canada in the introduction and ongoing operation of Canada’s real-time payments system,” Tracey Black , president and chief executive officer of Payments Canada, said in a statement on Thursday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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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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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – October saw a plethora of new credit cards. From traditional banks such as HSBC releasing its Premier World Elite Mastercard Credit Card, to ride-share app Uber’s first foray into the market, it seems like everyone is interested in launching a new credit card promising to deliver what the other doesn’t.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. Both Visa and Mastercard rolled out pilot biometric payment cards in 2022. To use this offering, cardholders enrolled a fingerprint to have securely stored on their card.

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JULY 10, 2020

Thanks to a lowered barrier to access banking services, more legal cannabis companies — often small businesses — are able to accept digital payments from their consumers, a shift that Muller noted is encouraging the owners of these companies to expand into their B2B operations as well. But current legacy rails can make this difficult.

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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. Traditionally, the benefits of card and check payments have resided on the buyer side of the equation at the expense of suppliers. The buyer uses a unique virtual card that is generated upon purchase approval.

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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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DECEMBER 31, 2020

This study assessed how restaurants’ customer engagement strategies have evolved since the pandemic's onset, and helped identify the key digital innovations that can help restaurants deliver improved user experiences and boost their average unit volumes (AUVs). percent use debit cards and 42.1 Key Data Points: 68.2 percent to 11.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Faster, faster, faster — that’s the motto driving so much of payments innovation today. As Nanu told it, the ongoing spread of faster payments can serve to not only build a stronger commerce and payments ecosystem for Asia and elsewhere, but make credit cards less important to the further growth of the world’s digital economy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Open banking regulations across Europe kicked open the door for a wave of FinTech competition, with consumer-facing personal finance management (PFM) right in the crosshairs of innovators’ efforts. Optimizing Business Lending. ” With new funding , Vaccino said Yapily will continue to focus primarily on the U.K.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 11, 2017

Wells Fargo will begin underwriting customers for their “entire credit limit” later this year, Avid Modjtabai, head of payments, virtual solutions and innovation (PVSI) group said during the bank’s investor day today. But starting in the […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2018

Card provider Visa has dropped WaveCrest, a company that issued cryptocurrency-linked debit cards, from its network. WaveCrest, which granted physical debit cards linked to cryptocurrency wallets to its users in Europe, violated Visa’s operating regulations, according to a statement the company gave to CNBC last week.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. Sixty years ago today (Sept. Today, Visa counts 3.3

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

The Mastercard Track Card to Account Transfer, the release says, will let businesses use commercial cards to pay suppliers even if the suppliers don't take card payments. Manual work won’t be as necessary and businesses will be able to access expanded payment operations, the release says.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

A transformation toward contactless payments is underway at the nation’s credit unions as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower infection risks with COVID-19. This change in consumer behavior is expected to remain even after vaccines are more widely distributed. The High Stakes Of Offering Contactless.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example.

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MAY 22, 2020

Moreover, all demographic groups are far more likely to use phone than email or chat to reach card service departments — and this method is associated with higher satisfaction and resolution rates. Our data suggests that card customer service departments must be equipped to address these fundamental concerns.

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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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APRIL 13, 2020

Aquilina previously spent almost eight years working in commercial card products at Mastercard prior to joining the Portland, Maine-based WEX. Bank and was in charge of fleet card programs. “As In addition, Dylan Jones will move from payments strategy operations leader to VP of operations.

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