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DECEMBER 2, 2020

In a year that’s been filled with lifestyle changes, personal pivots and business adaptations, 2020 may also go down as the year of the gift card as studies show an outsized increase in sales leading up to the busy holiday season. InMarket’s data also showed customers were spending about 17 percent more on gift cards in 2020.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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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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JULY 5, 2020

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. The GSA is estimated to spend around $6 billion per year on open market credit card purchases.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals are now turning to contactless cards and online shopping to safely and easily obtain needed goods. How Music Retailers Can Harmonize Security And Seamlessness. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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JULY 15, 2020

Livestreaming online shopping is finally gaining momentum in the United States, via an evolving business model from Glamhive. In the automotive arena, sellers have implemented third-party technology such as virtual retailing to enable a completely digital vehicle sales process.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

From counterfeiting to identity theft to phishing attacks, digital fraud takes many forms — and online shopping continues to make consumers and merchants vulnerable to such attacks. According to a new LexisNexis study , overall retail fraud attempts doubled year-over-year and tripled since 2017. By its measures, merchants pay $3.13

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s happened to almost all consumers: They’re idly perusing their credit card statements when they come across completely confusing, seemingly random charges from businesses they don’t recognize in locations they’ve never visited. Consumers panic and call their issuers to question these charges.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

In retail, the need to simplify, integrate and bring gift card and loyalty programs online to maximize their impact has never been greater, while consumer engagement has the power to remove retail friction. Data shows a cautious population living paycheck to paycheck, ready for conservative holiday spending.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The bank also processed record-breaking online and mobile payment transactions on Cyber Monday, up nearly 25 percent over 2019. Morgan’s card-present and card-not-present processing scale can provide uniquely valuable insight into consumer spending during the peak holiday shopping season,” Smith said. . As the No. trillion, J.P.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The firm especially saw gains in non-travel and expense card-not-present activity related to categories such as retail. CNP And Retail Spend . For non-T&E spend, global consumer online spending rose 20 percent year on year, while offline spending was down 13 percent. American Express posted Q3 results Friday (Oct.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

“Prior to COVID-19, we were telling people that over the next five years, remote-commerce, card-not-present transactions will exceed in-store, card-present transactions,” Mendlowitz said. the odds of beating the bad guys are moving in retailers’ favor. “I The Challange With Card-Not-Present Transactions .

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From where things stand in Q4 2020 it’s not hard to imagine physical retail going extinct. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Walgreens has followed in the footsteps of Walmart and Amazon to join the retailer-as-ad-agency trend , while BigCommerce recently launched Open Checkout to let developers, retailers and partners create tailored checkout experiences. And in B2B payments, virtual cards are helping firms manage spend in real time.

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APRIL 17, 2020

To reportedly help it compete with Apple Pay and the Apple Card, Google is creating its own tangible and virtual debit cards. The tech company’s debit card will have the brand of Google along with its partnered financial institution; however, it is not known what the offering’s name will be.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Here’s a nice change of pace going into the weekend: It looks like online fraud did something unsual for Black Friday this year. For the first time in several years, credit card fraud (the most common fraud form factor for retailers online) fell to 42 percent of total fraud during the holiday shopping weekend.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mao, whose company provides solutions for payments, prepaid cards and gift cards, said the only way for merchants to go is forward, because going back isn’t an option. Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth. For instance, people are simply directing more spend at gift cards this holiday season. Not All ‘Gift’ Cards Are Gifts .

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

They have paid down their credit cards. The main one centers on the drop in credit card spend. A new report from TransUnion shows that average consumer-level credit card balances have declined during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and now stand at $5,075 as of Q3 2020, down from $5,668 in Q3 2019. Here’s the scenario.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Walmart will now accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to pay for online grocery orders at all of its pickup locations, according to a report. On Tuesday (June 25), the retailer announced it was expanding the program to all of its more than 2,500 pickup locations. Walmart started testing the program in 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For small, mom-and-pop retailers, complex or proprietary procurement platforms simply aren't in the cards. With the pandemic accelerating businesses' digital shift , small retail buyers have shifted their buying operations to the B2B eCommerce realm, and for many, the online marketplace operates in lieu of a procurement solution.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Online marketplaces are connecting retailers, consumers and nonprofits amid the pandemic. And online shopping and digital fraud are increasing simultaneously, but merchants can take steps to ensure that debit-based card-not-present (CNP) transactions are kept safe. All this, Today in Data. 92%: Portion of U.S.

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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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JULY 15, 2020

Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs , Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). To use Apple Pay, customers tap the card icon in the Afterpay app, which then activates the Afterpay card in the Apple wallet.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As Progressive retailers have paved the way for this with email collection at registers, enabling them to connect their customers’ behavior in-store with them online.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Online marketplaces are the digital storefronts helping small to mid-sized businesses survive — but adding real-time settlement into the mix can help them thrive. And 60 percent of surveyed firms selling across online marketplaces would take their business to one that offers real-time settlement.

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MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. It was also the first platform to introduce a cashback service for online shopping and recently added support for Swipe’s cryptocurrency Visa cards. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions.

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JUNE 10, 2020

In investments, retail dispute management firm Chargeback closed a funding round to speed up growth and to help retailers reduce credit card disputes. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. 42%: Share of consumers who are engaging in even the most routine activities online.

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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. retailers spiked 44 percent year-over-year in the second quarter.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

According to the Eastern Europe B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2019 report, online retail sales in Eastern European countries continue a trend of double-digit growth rates this year, a release said. Cards are the most common means of online payment in Turkey, Russia and a few other Eastern European countries.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Amazon India has introduced a way for customers to pay their credit card bills through Amazon Pay , the eCommerce company’s payments arm. The feature allows making payments for any credit card bill via UPI or internet banking. “As Four years ago, Amazon introduced its Amazon Pay digital wallet to increase online payments.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Grocery stores and other retailers looking to process SNAP EBT payments online just got another tech option as the pandemic reshapes shopping habits. 20) announced that its payment gateway integration for eCommerce platforms now supports SNAP EBT payments made online. Cardknox on Tuesday (Oct.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Today’s coverage includes Walmart’s newest online initiative, the latest challenger to Flipkart and Amazon in India, Dunkin’ Donuts cozying up with Alexa, the SWIFT debate gets heated and a corporate travel executive discusses the pros and cons of virtual cards with PYMNTS. Walmart, Handy Tie-Up Goes Live Online.

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JULY 11, 2018

Another retailer has been hit with a data breach. This time, Macy’s has revealed that hackers obtained names and passwords of online customers — and might have accessed credit card numbers and expiration dates. Macy’s is just the latest retailer to be hit with a data breach.

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APRIL 12, 2017

The need for online retailers and brands to be vigilant in the face of fraud becomes more pressing by the day — but additional authentication measures can create friction on the consumer’s end, which has a nasty habit of reducing conversion rates. We return back to retailers a risk indicator — high, medium or low,” Bonin said. “If

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Alibaba ’s Singles’ Day online shopping event set a new record for performance. In luxury retail, Cartier has made an investment in Farfetch , while Burberry ’s earnings showed a return to sales growth. 550M : Amount of Cartier’s investment in online luxury marketplace Farfetch. All this, Today in Data.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Gift cards, according to researcher Will Caput, remains woefully easy to hack – if someone knows the right method. Caput realized this when studying a collection of retail gift cards from one store and saw that while the last four digits on the card are apparently random, the rest are not.

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