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SMB payment delays grow
E-commerce Fintech Payments Trends

Plastiq launches new card acceptance product with one year free

The list of layoffs and Chapter 11 bankruptcies has now grown to include hallmark retailers including Forever 21, Pier 1, J Crew, Neiman Marcus, Stage Stores, Laura Ashley and Debenhams in the UK, and JCPenney late last week. It’s not a pretty picture despite some ...
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Payments NEXT global news roundup
E-commerce Fintech Payments Trends

May 15 Global payments news roundup: Dwolla, EBANX, IBM, TransUnion, Primer, more…

Welcome to another weekly Friday fintech, payments, and e-commerce news and business intelligence roundup. I don’t know about you we’re ready to start barbecuing even if it requires us to keep a social distance from the hamburgers until they’re cooked.  We’re getting ahead of ourselves, ...
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future payments is faster
Banking Fintech Payments Trends

Post-pandemic payments path leading to the new normal

Just what does the “new normal” look like in a post-pandemic payments world? We reached out to Brady Harris, CEO of programmable payments company Dwolla for his insight into what’s ahead for business and the payments industry. The impact of coronavirus on business and consumers ...
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Covid-19 causing fraud scams
Cybersecurity E-commerce

COVID-19 unleashes fraud attacks, scams on business & young consumers

A new quarterly analysis of global online fraud trends found the telecommunications, e-commerce, and financial services industries were increasingly impacted along with Millennials among the victims most targeted by fraudsters using COVID-19 scams. Global fraud and identity solutions company Trans Union used the March 11, ...
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IBM-Prairie Payments Joint Venture
Banking Payments Research Payments Technology Payments Trends

Canadian credit unions and IBM plan new payments as a service platform

Credit unions in three Canadian provinces will be looking blue when it comes to modernizing their payments technology and platforms in a new eight-year, $100 million technology services partnership announced between 75 credit unions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta with IBM. The 75 credit unions ...
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Banking Fintech Payments Trends

May 8 Global payments news roundup: QuadPay, Square, Klarna, PPRO, Judo Bank, more…

Welcome to our weekly Friday fintech, payments, and e-commerce news and business intelligence roundup. It may not feel “normal” yet where you live, so we’ll do our best to give you a taste of normal news you can use. Even your humble editor is pining ...
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Banking Fintech

JD Power reports customers happier with big banks compared to digital-only

When it comes to digital banking, even with the coronavirus crisis, the traditional banks seem to have customer satisfaction sewn up. Seem ironic? New research from JD Power not only shows the shift to digital banking and payment solutions is accelerating faster than anticipated due ...
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Mother's Day e-commerce
E-commerce Retail

Mother’s Day, beauty, nesting, & other e-commerce spending insights

Global fraud prevention company Forter is tracking weekly online spending and the results during the COVID-19 crisis have proved fascinating. Based on Forter data tracking in the past several weeks and looking ahead to Mother’s Day, e-commerce sales look encouraging in several sectors including jewelry ...
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Rapyd payments research
Payments Research Payments Trends

Rapyd Asia payments research report: One size does not fit all

When it comes to payments across seven major countries in the Asia-Pacific region, new research from Rapyd tells us two key things. First, there is no single payment scheme that works best in all countries. Second, the use of banking and digital payments is higher ...
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Banking Fintech Payments Trends

May 1 Payments news roundup: Challenger bank closures, coronavirus payments trends, e-commerce insights, more…

Welcome to our weekly global payments news roundup with all the payments, fintech, and e-commerce news you need to know. We look at several challenger bank updates and closures, consumer coronavirus payments and shopping trends, global contactless spending data from Visa, coronavirus analysis from McKinsey ...
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