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Mobile Payments

PayPal record 2020 financial results
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Record: PayPal’s big, no VERY BIG year

By Jeff Domansky, Feb 4, 2021 Amazon’s not the only company to release record-high Q4 financial results. PayPal just ran the table with impressive Q4 and 2020 financials during a year when the pandemic hit many other businesses hard. The company nearly doubled the number ...
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Alipay and Visa: When titans redefine payments

By Ankita Tyagi, Founder & Principal Analyst, FSInnovate Dec 16, 2020 For decades, the payments space was associated with facilitating transactions between customers and their financial service provider, and nothing more. But, solution providers such as Alipay showed that it was possible to merge e-commerce ...
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Visa-Conferma Pay partnership
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Visa launches B2B virtual payment solutions, savings & tools

By Jeff Domansky, Nov 23, 2020 Visa and Conferma Pay, announced a strategic partnership to launch Visa Commercial Pay, a suite of B2B payment solutions designed to improve cash flow for businesses and eliminate outdated manual processes. Visa Commercial Pay provides comprehensive card-program management capabilities, including ...
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voice payments are growing more popular
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Are voice payments ready to find their voice?

By Jeff Domansky, Oct 29, 2020 New developments and improvements in voice technology are already driving customer service, bot automation, and even investments in the banking and payments world. Juniper Research estimates that over 4.2 billion digital voice assistants are in use on devices worldwide ...
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Ant Group’s $34 billion IPO
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Ant Group’s record $34 billion IPO will be world’s largest [Update: suspended by regulators]

By Jeff Domansky, October 27, 2020 Editor’s update: CNBC reported today (Nov 3) that “Ant Group’s controller Jack Ma, executive chairman Eric Jing and CEO Simon Hu were summoned and interviewed by regulators in China, according to a statement Monday from the China Securities Regulatory ...
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Visa Tap to Phone
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Visa launches Tap to Phone mobile payments in 15 markets

After a year of development and testing, Visa rolled out its new Tap to Pay mobile payment app that will let micro-merchants and sellers worldwide quickly and securely accept contactless payments on any NFC-enabled Android device without the need for any additional hardware. The new ...
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One digital bank launches
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New banking app hopes to be the One for middle-class Americans

Another new digital bank launched in the US and it’s aiming to provide innovative features for what it says is the underserved middle-class in America. Former Capital One senior vice president Brian Hamilton and former PayPal and Intuit CEO Bill Harris founded the new banking ...
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Tappit powers Jacksonville Jaguars contactless payments
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NFL Jaguars kick off season with Tappit contactless payments

It’s been a season of uncertainty for US hockey, basketball, baseball, and now for NFL football fans. With NHL hockey playoffs well underway without fans in arenas, the NFL is getting ready to open a new season with widely differing plans to delay or allow ...
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contactless payments by Fattmerchant
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Fattmerchant launches new contactless payments solution for merchants

With new research showing a shift by consumers to contactless payments, technology provider Fattmerchant introduced a new suite of contactless payment tools for small business owners A recent survey conducted by Fattmerchant shows a shift in consumer payment preferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly ...
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COVID-19 crisis creates contactless payments growth

As business and consumers start to raise their heads from months of prolonged lockdowns due to the coronavirus crisis, the US payments industry is finally seeing growth in the use of contactless and automated payments. Traditionally, the US had lagged behind earlier adopters in SE ...
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