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Large Merchants Drive 47 Percent Of Square’s GPV In Q1

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Bitcoin , subscriptions and services all played a part in Square ’s 45 percent year-over-year total revenue growth in the first quarter of 2018. But the company’s stock price fell in after-hours trading after Square’s new forecast for 2018 earnings came in below analyst expectations. Full year adjusted revenue will be between $1.40

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Inside the Bank of APIs: NatWest and the Evolution of Open Banking

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Since Open Banking launched on January 18, 2018, banks have made a suite of mandatory APIs available to TPPs. The TfL moment happened because a very large merchant – Transport For London – adopted contactless card payments. We’ve had some interesting conversations with very large organisations.

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Visa: Why Target’s Tap-And-Pay Leap Will Ignite Contactless Cards

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For the How We Will Pay 2018 Edition , PYMNTS and Visa conducted its annual study of U.S. Eighty-four percent of those consumers who said they’d be interested in using a contactless payment experience would like to do so at large merchants and grocery stores. Creating Contactless Momentum.

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Braintree’s Google Pay Integration Now Offers Option to Pay with PayPal in More Countries

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Here is the Google Pay switch toggled “ON” in the Braintree Control Panel: Kelton Research as commissioned by PayPal, online survey administered to 2,115 Americans aged 18+, June 2018. ↩ comScore Study of Large merchant Checkouts, April 2018.

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How Top Merchants Are Tackling Subscription Conversions

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Between the third and fourth quarters of last year, however, merchants as a whole did not implement major changes to their subscription offerings. In the average PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Index , the rating for merchants slid slightly from 63.8 in Q3 2018 to 63.5 in Q4 2018.

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Whitepages Pro On PSD2’s Roadmap To September

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GDPR , which came into effect in May of 2018, offers some roadmap for PSD2, as companies grapple with data protection, storage and sharing. The latest PSD2 Tracker , via joint efforts of PYMNTS and Whitepages Pro, found that though PSD2 looms, confusion reigns amid enterprises about what the rules mean, much less how to follow them.

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NEW DATA: Why 66% Of Consumers Buy Their Clothes Online

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Digital consumers gave merchants an average score of 36.9 out of 100 , while brick-and-mortar merchants performed slightly better, with an average satisfaction score of 37.9 Here are some key takeaways from the February 2018 edition of the Index: 41.0 out of 100.