Happy Friday and welcome to our weekly global payments news roundup. Lots of insight and business intelligence including what consumers are thinking, which retailers have had e-commerce success during the pandemic, new research reports, COVID-19 updates, fintech news, and much more news you can use. ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
If you were one of the fortunate 150 million or so US citizens to receive a $1200 COVID-19 Relief Check in April, you probably spent it paying bills according to research from payments platform PayNearMe. The company tracked millions of payments made by consumers between ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As consumer buying behaviors change quickly during and post-pandemic, the payments world is also going through significant changes. While contactless payments were very slowly gaining traction, particularly in the US, COVID-19 risk factors have forced consumers to change how they pay. In fact, Mastercard reports ...
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