By Jeff Domansky US households spent more than $4.4 trillion on household bill payments in 2020. Unfortunately, the hidden costs with paying bills soared 37.6% to $119 billion from $74 billion in 2020. That cost the average US household $925 in additional hidden costs compared ...
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We’ve got a rapid-fire global payments news roundup from our long list of sources we follow. All the payments news you can use, including UK contactless card limit increases, ACI Worldwide’s latest Fraud Index, state of European checkouts in 2021, PayPal Latin America strategy, Veem, ...
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By Steve Kramer, Vice President, Product, PayNearMe As the payments industry evolves, technologies to support cash payers must also change. When you look at the numbers, you might be tempted to count cash out. After all, Venmo, the industry’s most popular peer-to-peer payment app, transacted ...
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By Jeff Domansky The biggest question in many retailers’ minds is whether fraud will take a front seat during the critical 2021 holiday shopping season that kicks off on Black Friday. In its latest quarterly crime report, financial crime management platform Feedzai said the value ...
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By Sandeep Todi, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Truly Financial Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) increasingly buy services from other companies, hire freelancers, and accept clients’ payments in new markets internationally. While these smaller companies need banks that can keep up to run these ...
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By Douglas Hall, Publisher, PaymentsNEXT The critical fall conference season for 2021 is back in action with virtual conferences as well as a welcome return to in-person attendance, speakers, and interaction with payment industry leaders. Members of our editorial team and I will be attending ...
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By Martin Cheek, VP, SmartSearch Money laundering is a perennial problem for institutions around the world. Only last year, the US passed a much-needed update to the Banking Secrecy Act, beefing up anti-money laundering measures and making it more difficult for bad actors to operate ...
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By Jeff Domansky A 15-month research study by global payments provider Vesta shows that from 10% to as many as 13% of card-not-present (CNP), online transactions may be fraudulent. Coupled with annual e-commerce growth of 32.4% in the US and 27.6% globally, the result is ...
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As we approach the end of the dog days of summer, we’ve got a roundup highlighting the latest global payments news. We start with a look at the big dogs Amazon and Affirm tying up in a blockbuster buy now pay later deal. Korea penalizes ...
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By Jeff Domansky Four days ago, global payment processor TSYS platform went offline, and merchants and ISOs are still waiting for an explanation. Neither the TSYS website nor the owner Global Payments have acknowledged the outage. In addition, neither company has yet issued a statement ...
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