PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

To gauge the economic health and vitality of local economies, one need look no further than the financial stability of the small and medium-sized businesses that line the main streets and side streets of communities across the nation. One of the digital tools in which Main Street SMBs show great interest is real-time merchant fund settlement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. That requirement of rapid change left many Main Street merchants deeply shaken and worried about their futures. According to our survey, 71.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It has been suggested that millennials are averse to having and using credit cards. Millennials are in fact as likely as other generations to have credit cards, with nearly nine out of 10 having at least one card, according to PYMNTS’ latest research. consumers, that were conducted in March and September.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

But it also has to be easy, fast and friction-free — now more than ever as a mass of consumers are moving their shopping, dining, working and leisure time online in response to the coronavirus outbreak. It has to be secure first and foremost, particularly when payments data is on the line.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Aid has notably come in from all corners, particularly the card networks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Online grocers are increasingly allowing underprivileged consumers to use EBT payments (the modern equivalent of food stamps) at a time when the pandemic has made going to the store too risky for many shoppers. The move by the two companies is just the latest initiative in a growing trend of EBT acceptance for online grocery shoppers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The continued resumption may not be enough to stave off the top-line pressures and cash crunches that bedevil the Main Street SMBs that power a significant portion of the U.S. The state of Main Street right now? is roughly six months into a global pandemic (as declared in March by the World Health Organization).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street, disbursements and quick-response (QR) code payments. . NEW DATA: The State Of Main Street Businesses Six Months Into The Pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has stretched Main Street to its financial limits. Six Months Into Pandemic, Taking The Pulse Of Main Street SMBs.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Although initially viewed mainly as an alternative to a credit or debit card for online or in-store purchases, e-wallets have now expanded out into many different areas ranging from loyalty programs to direct-carrier billing.

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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

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

MAY 7, 2020

All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. Larger full-service restaurants opened community markets to sell raw ingredients, produce and food staples through online stores,” he said. Card-present volumes were down by 60 percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, the European Central Bank outlines use cases for a digital euro, and Goldman Sachs will buy GM’s credit card business. for General Motor's Credit Card Business. Goldman Sachs will buy General Motors’ credit card business for approximately $2.5 Online Auto Sales Are Where the Rubber Meets the Road .

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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

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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. Morgan is focused on enabling payments for the millions of small businesses that are the lifeblood of Main Streets across the U.S. – Chase has also said that its new SMB offering will enable firms to take card payments within minutes. and, by extension, the U.S.

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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

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Low interest rates, he said, were the main enticement for people to come and join a new bank — but they would be obsolete in competition against an official digital currency, which could easily process a digital payment the same way.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

The main challenge of designing a holistic solution for the small business (SMB) community is that it’s a diverse segment, making it particularly hard to create one-size-fits-all solutions. The whole suite of new services will be online in July of this year. It’s a challenge, she noted, but not an insurmountable one.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

In order to load funds to your account, you need to buy a scratch card from an agent or at a telco branch (agents are people, whom you can find near almost any bus stop or shopping centre). Furthermore you can also withdraw money from these agents, so basically they are the “ATMs” of Africa. ATM of Rwanda”: Tigo Cash agent.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Mobile card apps went from nifty to necessary when the darkest imaginings of last March had people picturing COVID-19 on every surface, suspended in every breath. Consumers are interested in applying mobile card management tools in different ways, however,” the report states. Meet the 2021 Cardholder.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

As Armstrong told PYMNTS, the spec will gradually replace the “complex registration journey” that many online shoppers have to undergo before making purchases, a journey that includes passwords and other data entered into multiple fields. Visa, in fact, has said the average online transaction involves 23 information fields. “In

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S., Gas stations are encouraging it.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Our surveys found that like most consumers and businesses, Main Street SMB owners thought in March that the lockdowns would last two or maybe three months tops. They want technology to expedite moving funds from their online sales into their bank accounts in real time. But even then, 58.4 percent of U.S. Cash Flow Woes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Visa recently announced a new policy to help shoppers alleviate this pain point.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift. Companies that didn’t have online shopping channels couldn’t sell their products, while eateries that didn’t provide online ordering for delivery or pickup couldn’t serve their diners.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

percent of “online natives,” those who begin and complete their shopping journeys via computer. Conversely, the share of online native shoppers grew from 21.9 percent of merchants think that consumers commonly use buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS) even though only 10 percent of consumers say they use BOPIS often or always.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While contactless payment methods in the form of mobile wallets and contactless cards are both becoming more common features, our consumer-survey data strongly indicates while that’s better than making consumers dip their cards, it’s not quite the gold standard when it comes to giving consumers hands-off options for payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As PYMNTS researchers recently wrote, “news of the availability and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has Main Street SMBs feeling optimistic about their chances of survival, yet uncertainty remains around when things will return to business as usual. Findings support the idea that moods have perceptibly lightened on Main Street.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

The new reality will be marked by low bookings; tight margins; financial pressures on online travel agents; and the need for cost management. And drilling down into existing pain points, as Ginesta told PYMNTS, the most widely used payment methods include payments on credit terms, online merchant payments and commissions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The 6-year-old who get his hands on Mom’s iPad and manages to rack up $16,000 worth of credit charges for online gaming. The teenager with a Fortnite habit who manages to clean out Dad’s checking account via the debit card linked to the gaming account. It runs on credit rails, but it's not a traditional credit card,” MacDonald said.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Main Street SMBs: The 18-Month Outlook. Main Street small- to medium-sized businesses’ (SMBs’) confidence of survival has progressed as the pandemic has continued. percent fewer Main Street SMBs are hopeful of survival. Key Data Points: The portion of consumers shopping and paying for retail goods online increased 34.9

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