Our Friday global payments news roundup includes a useful collection of strategic payments news you can use about iZettle, PayPal, Barclaycard, ACI Worldwide/Ovum, Amazon, Square, Walmart, FNB, Apple Pay and Nuggets. Retailers risk frustrating online shoppers with out-of-date payment technology More than 72% of retailers ...
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PayPal just moved the meter in the payments world with its acquisition of mobile payments provider iZettle for $2.2 billion in an all cash deal. iZettle, the Swedish payments fintech, had planned to raise $227 million on the Stockholm Nasdaq exchange in an IPO valuing ...
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A new ACI Worldwide/Ovum payments research survey says 77% of merchants expect real-time payments to replace card payments in the near future. The report also offers other valuable insights into merchants and payments preferences and challenges. Most important to payments providers, 65% of merchants are interested ...
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Our Friday newsletter has an in-depth profile of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency and blockchain technology plans as well as our usual extensive Friday payments news roundup. Facebook Gets Serious About Payments, Cryptocurrency When Facebook announced a small cryptocurrency development SWAT team earlier this week, it wasn’t ...
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It was a busy week in payments news from around the world. Every Friday, we include a roundup of the latest payments news, trends, research and innovations to carry you through the weekend. Included are research reports from Forrester, Auriemma Consulting Group and Criteo as ...
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Our newsletter looks first at MasterCard biometric cards that allow cardholders to verify their fingerprint at home. Next, we examine Shopify’s brand-new merchant payments features and some back-office improvements to their e-commerce platform. Finally, Microsoft introduces payments using its Outlook email program – an idea ...
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Mastercard unveiled a new feature for its biometric payments cards that allows cardholders to register their fingerprints at home. Imagine not having to make a trip to the bank to register your fingerprint ID? MasterCard has been actively working on ways to eliminate signatures and ...
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Shopify launched a basket of new merchant payment features at its annual Unite conference in Toronto, Canada. Chief among the new features were enhancements for retail products, new features to help marketing efforts and back office tools and enhancements for more efficient business operations. Shopify ...
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Microsoft said soon you'll be able to pay bills and invoices entirely within your Microsoft Outlook email program. ...
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Today’s PaymentsNEXT newsletter has a wealth of payments industry news you can use. We look at the future of Visa Checkout and single button payments as well as a report on how retailers are losing $1.1 billion by not offering the proper payment choices for ...
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