CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer interviewed Visa CEO Al Kelly for an eye-opening look at why he thinks payment stocks may be the safest investment play in the financial sector. “Visa has no interest rate risk,” Cramer said. “Visa’s not gonna get crushed if ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
US online merchants are far behind building their cross-border e-commerce growth because most are not offering enough or any local payment methods in international markets. A new PPRO whitepaper shows that US merchants need to make local payment methods (LPM) available because traditional credit card ...
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Just in time for your weekend reading, we’ve got the latest global payments news including a close-up on Square Installments new payments plan, a Thanksgiving Day retail sales forecast, the latest research on data breaches, the online sales tax storm and our popular global payments ...
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Lots of timely global Payments NEXT news for your weekend reading starting with the launch of Amazon 4-Star store in Soho, fraudsters using look-alike URLs, biometrics and contactless payments trends and much more. Also, check out our week’s best payments news roundup. Is Amazon 4-Star ...
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Here’s what we’ve been reading in the global payments news this week. There’s everything from Amazon’s new 4-Star concept store to the mall of the future, biometric payments, contactless payments research and the challenge of look-alike domains. It’s all the news you can use for ...
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It’s not like Visa and MasterCard haven’t tried to get US consumers to embrace contactless cards. But according to a recent infographic released by Visa, only 0.6% of US consumers used contactless payments as of September 2017. Contrast that with some of the biggest adopters ...
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The payments industry loves the promise of new technology whether it’s mobile payments, fingerprints, facial recognition or other biometric payments. But the challenge of moving from test markets to the real world is always present. Visa, Mountain America Credit Union, and Fingerprints AB ran a ...
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India’s leading online shopping site Flipkart, now 77% owned by Walmart, launched a cashless credit program that will give shoppers access to an instant credit line of up to Rs 60,000 ($834 USD) to buy products on the e-commerce marketplace. The announcement comes just ahead ...
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Here’s the best global payments news that crossed our desk this week, all curated and quickly accessed for your weekend reading enjoyment via Payments NEXT. Retail sales prediction: Black Friday & holiday sales could jump 15.5% A new report from Internet Retailer suggests US 2018 holiday retail sales could ...
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We’ve got a payments news roundup with news you can use from around the globe. Pulse Network looks at some of the reasons Apple Pay is gaining with credit card issuers. We’ve got a payments processor showdown between Stripe and PayPal as well as a ...
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