Payments Trends

Payments Trends

PayPal wants unbanked customers
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No bank? PayPal wants you

Got no bank? You may be just the customer PayPal is looking for. Of course, more than 227 million worldwide customers know and likely use PayPal often for payments services. PayPal doesn’t have a US bank license but that hasn’t stopped it from moving further ...
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Credit card signatures gone; P2P cryptocurrency payments here

We’ve got a couple of quick stories for you today, starting with the demise of signatures on credit cards by the major credit card networks. That’s way overdue. Also, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will let users pay by cryptocurrency for products and gifts using ...
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Bye bye credit card signatures

When was the last time you used a pay phone? I can’t remember either. In the same way, by the end of this month, credit card signatures will no longer be required on four major credit card networks, including – American Express, Discover, Mastercard and ...
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Will Amazon enter the voice payments business soon?

Word is out that Amazon is preparing to enter the payments business, and that’s got to be making PayPal, Venmo and Square nervous. ...
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SWIFT payments; IKEA VR shopping; UK shoppers ready for wearables payments

We’ve got three interesting global payments stories to carry you into the weekend, starting with an attempted hack on Malaysian central bank via the SWIFT network. Next, we take a look at whether IKEA may leave its big-box stores behind in favor of virtual shopping. ...
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Research: 26% of UK shoppers ready for contactless payments

New research by MasterCard shows that UK shoppers are keen to make contactless payments using smart devices such as rings, bracelets and smart watches. More than 50,700 consumers were surveyed in nine EU countries and 26% of UK residents said they would be willing to ...
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Worldpay Global Payments Report: 4 Key Insights

We continue our highlights of Worldpay’s Global Payments Report 2017 and its insights into the latest payments trends and market developments. In this post, we focus on several unique perspectives and new market developments including biometrics, silver surfers and baby boomers, growth of bank transfers ...
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Worldpay Report: Global payments insights & trends

Worldpay released its Global Payments Report 2017 and it’s loaded with information on the latest payments trends and market insights. In this post, we look at the bigger picture for payment trends from 2016 to 2021 globally and in the four biggest regions of North ...
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Send money via Google Assistant and soon by Google Home

Now, you can send or receive money using Google Assistant via voice on your mobile phone and soon on Google Home devices as well.  ...
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60% of Square merchants would take bitcoin
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Square merchants not square about cryptocurrency payments

A new research study shows that more than half of Square merchants would accept cryptocurrency payments for goods and services. The survey of 100 US merchants by Nomura Instinet showed 60% are open to taking bitcoin payments instead of dollars. “This result is surprising, especially ...
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