Payments Trends

coronavirus philanthropy

Companies doing GOOD during coronavirus pandemic

It’s a sad reality that so many businesses have closed, laid-off employees, seen massive revenue decreases, and suffered other harsh impacts from the coronavirus pandemic. Many businesses have ...
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cashless payments growing

Cashless or classless: The flaws in today’s payment debate

By: Steve Villegas, VP of Payment Partnerships at PPRO There is a constant debate on whether global economies should continue to offer cash payments or go cashless by ...
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concern for coronavirus impact on rent and lease payments

First of month rent, mortgage and lease payments raise US financial concerns

Only about one-third of US workers can work from home and they earn about 45% of the country’s wages. Being the first of the month, there are millions ...
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2019 US coffee sales $47.5 billion

Unlimited Coffee-as-a-Service?

It was inevitable. You can get pretty much Anything-as-a-Service thanks to the cloud. That includes payments, banking, insurance, investment advice, cloud storage, clothing, groceries, and now coffee. That’s ...
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Brazil introduces real-time digital payments

Brazil’s Central Bank plans new real-time digital payment system

Brazil’s central bank – Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) – launched testing of a new real-time digital payment system based on QR codes and is expected to go ...
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future of payments is changing fast

Future of Money Study sees new payments methods ahead

Money matters to consumers and the new Future of Money market research by Logica shows changes ahead in how we pay for things in the future. And those ...
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ChargeAfter POS financing

ChargeAfter gets Visa investment & network access

Point of sale financing platform ChargeAfter got a big boost with a strategic investment and network access to Visa’s network of sellers, acquirers and issuing banks. The new ...
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global coronavirus impact growing

Coronavirus raises global fear for health & economy

Like the SARS pandemic before it, the new coronavirus has everyone on edge from health and immigration officials, manufacturers, tourism operators, and retailers to international traders, financial markets, ...
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7-Eleven tests cashierless stores

7-Eleven testing first cashierless store at head office

They’ve tried drone deliveries of Slurpees and now 7-Eleven is testing a completely cashierless store at its Irving, Texas headquarters. The fast-food giant announced the pilot in a ...
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NYC bans cashless-only payments in stores and restaurants

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 ...
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