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Nov 1 Global payments news roundup & what’s trending

Good Monday morning. Here’s what’s trending in the global payments news and what you need to know as the week gets underway. AmEx debuts debit card in war ...
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Dog Days news edition

Aug 31 Global payments news roundup

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 ...
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TSYS payments outage hits customers

Who’s your backup payment processor in an outage?

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 ...
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real-time payments research

Real-time business payments in Canada take a giant step

By Jeff Domansky Interac Corp and 13 leading Canadian financial institution members launched Interac e-Transfer for Business, providing real-time digital payments to personal and commercial bank accounts with confirmation ...
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global payments news and research

July 24 – Global payments news roundup

After wrestling with alligators and hosting issues, we’re back with the latest payments news from around the world. Lots going on, so check it out. Visa acquires Currencycloud, ...
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fastest-growing mobile wallets

Report: Guess where the fastest-growing mobile wallets are?

By Jeff Domansky With more than 2.8 billion mobile wallets in use worldwide at the end of 2020 and the impact of the pandemic, you’d think US consumers ...
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Branson-Bezos bragging rights

July 2 global payments news roundup

Out of this world! That pretty much sums up this week’s global payments news, and it’s only Friday. Branson and Bezos may be trying to be the first ...
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PayPal merchant fee increase

What’s behind PayPal’s new US payment pricing strategy?

By Jeff Domansky Understandably, PayPal’s new payment pricing strategy attracted a lot of attention. After all, the company is one of the biggest in the payment industry, with ...
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Neil Armstrong lunar walk

Visa & Goldman Sachs take big step in B2B cross-border payments

By Jeff Domansky, June 7, 2021 The big news of the day is that Jeff Bezos plans to go into space with his brother next month. Fitting as ...
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mobile app security report

The sorry state of application security in financial services

By Jeff Domansky, June 2, 2021 Two things jump out on first reading of Contrast Security’s 2021 State of Application Security in Financial Services Report. First, the financial ...
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