PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

While the coronavirus crisis certainly accelerated the drive toward digital, the mid-market's commerce digitization push was well underway before the pandemic hit. With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Now comes the work of embedding touchless payments anywhere and everywhere people might want them. In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. Physical cards are changing form, as some NFC-capable mini-cards are being embedded in rings and other wearables. told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Safety-minded consumers the world over can now be seen tapping contactless cards, scanning QR codes or utilizing voice ordering technologies to make purchases without potentially putting themselves or others at risk of contracting the virus. The Beyond The Card: Toward The Cardless And Contactless Future report, a PYMNTS and i2c Inc.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Rapyd, a startup that converts international payments, announced a partnership with Visa this week to grow its card issuing business. “A A major opportunity for us, and we’re seeing this around the world from a sheer use-case perspective, is card issuing,” said Marc Winitz, chief marketing officer at Rapyd.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 16, 2024

While there are many overlooked products in banking, the debit card is perhaps the greatest. The product generates significant fees and helps drive deposit balances, yet debit cards rarely get a mention in strategy, marketing, or customer profitability circles. Banks over $10B in asset size make closer to $0.23 per transaction.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

23) announcement that the card is now available in France, Austria, Italy, Ireland and Spain beyond its current availability in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. percent cash back on all of their eligible spending with the debit card. The companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. In the U.S.,

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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. – Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009).

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Payments Dive

JUNE 13, 2024

Startup Fizz is marketing itself as a company helping college students build credit and manage daily spending.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The great digital shift is upending B2B payments , pushing them away from the age-old reliance paper checks toward digital options. The walls are coming down between accounts receivables and payables between buyers and suppliers in a $120 trillion global commercials payments market. The Rise Of Virtual Cards .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The retailer said the move will allow customers to complete in-person transactions using PayPal or Venmo account balances or linked bank accounts or payment cards without the need to touch a keypad or present a payment card. Prior to the pandemic, few consumers had experimented with contactless payments at all.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.

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Payments Dive

MAY 8, 2024

accounted for 58% of global commercial card spend last year, but also for 78% of total value lost to card fraud, according to a report by Euromonitor International.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

A group of big European banks is planning to challenge Visa ’s and Mastercard ’s positions as the world’s two largest payment processing networks, Electronic Payments International reported. . This is not the first time that European banks have tried such a model.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Most are encouraging employees to work from home while also moving their back-office operations online, and payments operations are no exception. Around The B2B Payments For The Virtual Workforce World. The benefits of using digital B2B payments solutions extend far beyond their ability to support a decentralized workforce.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Oracle Banking Payments announced Wednesday (Oct. 7) that it is supporting SWIFT ’s latest service to speed effortless global cross-border payments for small- and medium-sized business (SMBs) and consumer markets. “We The subsidiary of Oracle Corp. is an IT solution provider to the financial services industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Digital has certainly advanced further and faster than anyone predicted at this time last year, and the ground that’s been taken is unlikely to ever be surrendered back, Helena Mao , vice president of global product strategy for payment solutions at Blackhawk Network , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. “I Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth.

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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

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

JULY 26, 2020

India has embraced its model for digital payments so much that it intends to take it global. Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corp. There are people in villages needing assistance 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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Perficient

JANUARY 22, 2021

For example, if I trade my credit card points for cash, the organization knows that I might have some immediate needs that money can help solve. While a Chicago Bears credit card likely means I will not be buying an Aaron Rogers jersey, an Ann Taylor Loft card might indicate I like stylish but machine-washable clothes.

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Payments Dive

JUNE 17, 2022

"The Visa-Mastercard duopoly controls about 80% of the market share, allowing them to raise fees indiscriminately and with no formidable opposition," contends Doug Kantor, general counsel for the National Association of Convenience Stores.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 12, 2023

Next week, FedNow goes live, ushering in the next era of faster payments. FedNow joins The Clearing House, which has offered real-time payments (RTP ® ) for the last five years. Banks are about to win back payment flow from non-banks, and in this article, we break down how this will happen and what it means for your bank.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although they are vastly different beasts, shifts in the consumer payments ecosystem have significantly impacted the flow of B2B payments. Having multiple providers ensures merchants can still access funds from their card transactions even if one bank provider stops operating in a certain industry or currency, for example.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

And consumers want to pay with their preferred methods, across cards or digital wallets. Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the eCommerce experience – not just in terms of warding off fraud, but also in making sure payments can be processed efficiently and that the most effective payment gateways are accessed.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Global payment processor Payroc announced Wednesday (Nov. 18) in a company press release emailed to PYMNTS that it has acquired Bluestone Payments. Bluestone Payments, founded by Linda Rossetti and launched in 2006, connects merchants in niche markets to payments programs through a referral system.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the wake of the pandemic, B2B payments have had to evolve. But in an interview with PYMNTS, Mary Beth Joiner , senior vice president of relationship management at Comdata Corporate Payments, said that there have still been pockets of resistance in making the great digital pivot.

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Perficient

JANUARY 24, 2023

When a non-financial firm offers embedded banking, they offer a branded checking account to hold funds and make payments for the betterment of the company and its clients or workers. As a baseball card collector since childhood, I remember when eBay opened its URL back in 1995. Baseball card heaven for both buyer and seller.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The pandemic has exposed the pain points of all verticals when it comes to payments, and especially when it comes to transacting in person, in a tactile environment, with cash, and where banking conduits are limited. Those benefits can extend to users in the form of cost savings tied to payments and processing, or speedier processing times.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

They are using everything from cash to mobile wallets to complete these transactions, requiring retailers to race to accommodate a wide variety of payment methods. She explained that consumers do not generally think much about the payments piece of the shopping experience unless it does not work. Contactless Payments And eCommerce.

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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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Payments Dive

JANUARY 12, 2023

The acquisition is the latest B2B move for the card company, which expects Nipendo’s capabilities to strengthen its position in that market.

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Payments Dive

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As the company’s marketing spending dipped in the third quarter, Amex acquired fewer new cards than it has in recent quarters.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It would be difficult to pick a single reason why payments modernization is currently accelerating. Modernization is also accelerating because the pandemic and consumer desires to maintain social distance are increasing the need for payments’ digital transformation. Digital Transactions Up, Data Center Usage Down. A Seamless Future.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 19, 2024

The card network is shrinking its workforce as it restructures the company to focus more resources on some international markets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

You’d be forgiven for thinking that faster payments might be the purview of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. In other cases, stimulus payments were commingled with tax refunds, and were subject to garnishment.

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