Payments Trends

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Ticketmaster ripoff
Credit Card & Online Fraud E-commerce Payments Trends

Ticketmaster decides ripping off consumers is okay

In a headshaking, tone-deaf move especially during the coronavirus pandemic, the brain trust at Ticketmaster has decided to add to the misery of consumers who bought tickets for ...
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international student payment preferences
Payments Research Payments Trends

Two-thirds of international students prefer familiar tuition payment options

A new report by payments company Flywire says 67% of international students are concerned if they can’t use their tuition payment method of choice at UK universities. While ...
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Coronavirus rocks the world
E-commerce Fintech Payments Trends

April 10 Payments NEXT big global news roundup

The weeks are sliding by slowly as we all stay at home and wait out the COVID-19 crisis. Today, on this Good Friday, we’ve got another big roundup ...
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coronavirus impacting payments industry worldwide
Banking Payments Trends

April 6 Global payments news roundup

We’re starting this week with a big global payments news roundup since there’s so much going on in the payments, fintech, and e-commerce industry around the world. We ...
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coronavirus philanthropy
Payments Trends Retail

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
Payments Research Payments Trends

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
Banking Payments Trends

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
Payments Trends Retail

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
Banking Fintech Payments Trends

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
Fintech Mobile Payments Payments Trends

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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