PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

As the United States experiences a coin shortage due to the pandemic, some brick-and-mortar retailers are forcing consumers to tell cashiers to “keep the change.”. Customers can either round up their bills to the nearest dollar and give the excess to charity or get their change stored on loyalty cards. Similarly, southeast U.S.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Here are some of the biggest payment trends we’re forecasting for the new year. Security/Biometric Payments With the widespread popularity of digital payments continuing to grow, security remains at the forefront of concern for payment companies and their vendor partners.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

COVID-19 and the ensuing economic downturn has caused B2B payment challenges to reach a new level. Vendors that once saw late buyer payments as unavoidable now risk going out of business if their clients don’t speed up the pace of payments. 5T: Projected value of virtual card spending in 2025. $4B:

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PYMNTS

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 Today, it offers a credit card and processes payments for customer bills.

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PYMNTS

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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And CVS in August became the first major retailer to introduce PayPal QR code technology, which it plans to roll out in its 8,200 U.S. The report found that workers and customers have both become wary of exchanging cash and using physical cards to make purchases. consumers who were using touchless payments by July.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Credit Product Penetration of Retail Sales Shopping experience refresh “We are excited to pilot a virtual store staffed by dedicated associates … but with no physical customers. The post Q2 2021 US retailer payments commentary appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing. The problem, Brett Narlinger , Blackhawk Network ’s head of global commerce, told Karen Webster, is that most consumers weren’t really looking for a new payments form factor that they could only use on certain devices or at a short list of places. Narlinger said.

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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.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 29, 2019

Prepaid cards and eGifts can help increase engagement and boost loyalty among retail customers.

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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

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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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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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. Visa and Mastercard have given U.S.

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PYMNTS

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 Merchants that had focused on getting customers to increase time in stores switched to efforts to decrease time in stores, with digital payments playing a key role.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2020

Green Dot is helping consumers gain access to their stimulus payments as a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a move that will likely prop up the company’s banking-as-a-service business. Through an existing partnership with Walmart, the Pasadena, Calif.-based

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Nium , the global FinTech platform, announced in a press release emailed to PYMNTS that users will be able to make payments through Google Pay with its company Visa cards. The Google Pay partnership lets those cards work through many more payment terminals and options.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dramatic shifts are underway in the retail sector as it adjusts to consumers’ increasingly digital preferences. These retailers are accustomed to engaging with their customers in brick-and-mortar stores and building long-lasting relationships that lead to brand loyalty. Around The Buy Now, Pay Later World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Gift card giant Blackhawk Network this week announced it is selling charity-branded gift cards that will trigger contributions to those charities when loaded. Recipients of what are being called “Giving Good” cards will be able to use them at any of a number of retail and dining locations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

COVID-19 has shifted consumers away from card-based payments experiences, while P2P has accelerated a change enabling merchants to own the payments experience itself, Debbie Guerra , executive vice president of merchant and payments intelligence solutions at ACI , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Payments Flexibility

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Payments Source

JANUARY 25, 2021

Biometric authentication has always been a challenging subject with consumers, who are accustomed to using the technology to unlock their phones but are still wary about how much personal information they share with retailers and card issuers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

consumers paid off $10 billion in credit card debt in the third quarter of 2020, and Amazon Pharmacy launched for consumers to order prescription medications. Plus, Walmart+ gets a closer look after the retail giant’s third-quarter earnings call. US Consumers Pay Down $10B in Credit Card Debt In Q3. In today’s top news, U.S.

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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. Debit Card Profitability We will start with debit card profitability.

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PYMNTS

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. Common plans offer four-installment payments as ways to buy items.

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Accenture

MARCH 11, 2021

Key themes Purchase volume continued to show signs of recovery as all issuers reported QoQ growth in spend and some had YoY growth; Alliance Data posted the strongest QoQ growth of ~25%, likely as a result of easing retail lockdown restrictions. The post Q4 2020: US credit card issuer snapshot appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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PYMNTS

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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Payments Dive

AUGUST 8, 2022

Banks that issue credit cards and the retailers who hate their fees are lining up allies on Capitol Hill to fight over a new bill that calls for more competition in the industry. Visa and Mastercard are at the center of the conflict.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

Despite advances in banking and personal finance technology, paying credit card bills in a simple, time-efficient way is still a pain point for many consumers. households revolved credit card debt from month to month last year. According to recent research, 37% of U.S.

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Payments Dive

MAY 24, 2024

The retail behemoth and its credit card issuer said in a terse, joint press release Friday that they’re parting ways.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Though the great consumer shift to digital is often seen as a side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s not entirely accurate, Mike Cowen , Mastercard ’s head of digital payments for the U.K., The New Samsung Pay Card . In a typical digital-wallet offering, one registers their card credentials into the wallet directly.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

In " A Look Forward: What Executives Wish for America and the World in 2021 ," Nat Salvione, chief commercial officer of Tango Card , discusses the innovations that have emerged since the pandemic: specifically, the use of pay-ahead apps and remote team engagement. For an introvert like me there was always a moment of anxiety.

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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

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Venmo , the mobile payment service owned by PayPal , announced Monday (Oct. 5) it has introduced its first-ever credit card issued by Synchrony and powered by the Visa network, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. It features automatic cash back on eligible purchases and the ability to manage the card in the Venmo app.

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