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3 key payments industry disruptions
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3 trends disrupting traditional B2B payments

The impact of COVID-19 has accelerated disruption in the B2B payments marketplace and according to a new study from Juniper Research, it will be two years before business recovers its losses. The research shows how deep the disruption to business has been around the world ...
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Banking Fintech Payments Trends

How COVID-19 changed business payments

By Brady Harris, CEO of Dwolla Organizations across all industries are operating under completely different circumstances and many leaders are in uncharted territory as they maneuver through the coronavirus. If COVID-19 has taught us anything it’s that we must interact with our customers digitally in ...
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B2B payments automation
Banking Fintech Payments Trends

Finexio finds payments growth and new partner despite pandemic

US B2B payments automation was gaining wider adoption last year and early into the new year. The obvious appeal to business owners and CFOs was cost savings, faster payments by clients and for suppliers, potential faster-pay discounts, quicker automated reconciliation, and a greatly reduced burden ...
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Millenials and their money
Banking E-commerce

Looking at young adults and their money habits

How much money did you save when you were young? Would your savings have helped you make it through the pandemic? Did you even know what a 401(k) was when you were younger? According to a Travis Credit Union survey of 1,859 US Millennials and ...
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Banking E-commerce Fintech

The role of payments innovation in small business: Brazil perspective

By Augusto Lins When it comes to adopting digital payments technology – the US market is a well-known laggard. In fact, as of 2019 – cash and checks still account for almost half of all SMB payments. However, COVID-19 has been a stress test for ...
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Vietnam's e-commerce economy is growing fast
Banking E-commerce Payments Technology Payments Trends

Decoding Asia-Pacific’s payments & e-commerce landscape

By: Tristian Chiappini  Asia-Pacific (APAC) is both a fascinating and complex region when it comes to its e-commerce landscape. With the ubiquitous use of e-wallets and other local payment methods (LPMs), it will come as no surprise the region will account for two-thirds of the ...
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Banking Bitcoin & Blockchain Payments Research

B2B cross-border payments may recover 30% by 2022

A new study from Juniper Research predicts the total value of B2B cross-border payments will reach $35 trillion in 2022 from a COVID-related low of $27 trillion in 2020. This 30% growth will take two years for recovery following the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus ...
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ChargeAfter and Visa offer POS installment payments
Banking Payments Trends Retail

ChargeAfter partners with Visa for consumer installment payments

In a new partnership with Visa, technology platform ChargeAfter becomes the first fintech to offer Visa installment point-of-sale payments in the US which should be welcome news for both struggling merchants and hard-pressed consumers. With the launch of Visa’s installment solutions on the ChargeAfter platform, ...
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global payments declining due to COVID-19
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Canadians toss the cash, forgo bank branches, embrace contactless payments

New research from McKinsey shows Canadian consumers avoided cash and bank branches in May over the fear of COVID-19 and turned to contactless payments to fill the gap. The survey found that 42% of Canadians decreased their use of cash compared to only 26% in ...
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New fraud prevention tool will reduce merchant false order declines

Merchants, payment gateways, credit card issuers, and banks and have long battled the problem of orders falsely declined as part of fraud prevention programs often operated in isolation by partners in the payments system. Experts estimate losses to merchants could be as high as 10% ...
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