New York City, the country’s largest, became the third US city to banish cashless-only transactions following similar bans in San Francisco and Philadelphia as well as the ban imposed by the state of New Jersey. Critics have long claimed cashless-only transactions disadvantage the poor, the ...
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What do these companies all have in common? British Airways, Ticketmaster, Newegg, Delta Airlines, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, and Macy’s. If you’re in the payments industry, you might think that the high-level security of their e-commerce and online customer data might be a common thread. ...
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New research by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk analyzes how neobanks are on the rise and why they’re so popular with a growing number of UK banking customers compared to traditional banks. For traditional banks in the US, it’s also a sign of the banking customer disruption brewing and already underway ...
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By Vinay Kashyap, Mainsail Partners As 2020 gets underway, the upheavals that shook the payments industry over the past year show no sign of ending. All signs point to transformational change in 2020. Top trends to watch in 2020 include the continued growth of embedded ...
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By Stefan Merz, COO at PPRO The e-commerce market is set for exponential growth – it is predicted that global e-commerce retail sales are set to reach $4.9 trillion by the year 2021 – and the next 12 months will see this momentum continue. Its ...
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When we last covered Honey last November, it was just acquired by PayPal for $4 billion. Analysts weren’t quite sure what to make of PayPal’s strategy and the price paid for the acquisition. In an unusual move just before Christmas, Amazon began posting messages calling ...
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A new collaboration between Visa and smartphone maker Samsung electronics brings simple mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) payment capability to millions of businesses without the need for expensive hardware, maintenance, and training. Visa’s Tap to Phone makes it easy for sellers to use Samsung’s new Galaxy XCover ...
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Back in July 2019, more than 50 banks and corporations signed up with SWIFT to initiate SWIFT GPI tracking of international payments as a way to enhance e-commerce and cross-border business in advance of the November 2020 deadline for users of SWIFT’s payments clearing system. ...
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brought an interesting launch by MasterCard for an augmented reality (AR) app designed to give cardholders a 3-D, 360-degree view of their credit card benefits. Say what? That’s right, MasterCard users will be able to see, explore, and access their ...
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It’s getting to the point where voice skills like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can do just about everything except give the kids a bath. The timing of announcements about services around the US Consumer Electronics Show (CES) shows how Amazon hopes to dominate in-your-auto ...
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