PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In today’s top payments news, Mastercard’s CEO speaks out against a national payments system, the FCA tells credit card companies to be reasonable with customers in debt and the People’s Bank of China is prepared to inject $173 billion into the country to stabilize the economic damage wreaked by the coronavirus.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Wells Fargo & Co is seeking to sell its private-label credit card and point-of-sale (POS) financing unit as part of an ongoing strategic review of its businesses. Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. percent in 2019 and its share of borrowings at 3.63

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mao, whose company provides solutions for payments, prepaid cards and gift cards, said the only way for merchants to go is forward, because going back isn’t an option. Mao, whose company provides solutions for payments, prepaid cards and gift cards, said the only way for merchants to go is forward, because going back isn’t an option.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2020

score in July, according to the Journal, was 711 — up from 708 in April 2020 and 706 in July 2019. He added that deferment policies and government stimulus checks “are having a further effect of pushing out that stress for many people.”. 16 that retail sales in September exceeded those in August 2020 and September 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There were plenty of tailwinds that pushed the segment forward: A strong economy, healthy consumer interest in credit and advances in credit scoring technology were all instrumental in pushing more consumers into the market, particularly in the first half of the year. The Two Faces Of Consumer Credit. That amounts to $13.2

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Banks push for digitalization According to the report, large banks are at the forefront of the sector’s digital transformation. This dynamic ecosystem is supported by regulatory advancements and collaborative partnerships, which are expected to continue fostering innovation and growth in the sector.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to Ossama Soliman , chief product officer at open banking provider TrueLayer , the very fact that there are so many payment options pushes new entrants to differentiate themselves from the pack. “But But actually, it raises the bar for what it takes to add a new payment method into the checkout.”. Click, Biometric, Done.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With the launch of Ingo Money QuickConnect last week , the company capped off a year that CEO Drew Edwards told Karen Webster could best be characterized as the “Great Awakening” of push payments. We’ve finally moved beyond ‘so what is a push payment?’ That one bite is via a card that almost everyone has in their wallets today.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2020

small and medium-sized business (SMB)-focused bank Tide said it has a new relationship with Mastercard that makes Tide one of the card company’s principal issuers, Finextra reported Monday (July 20). In October 2019 the company raised $54 million. SMBs in 2019. Tide, which launched in 2016, has its headquarters is in London.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

MeaWallet , a leading digital payments enabler specialising in card tokenization announces its partnership with B89 , a pioneering TechFin (fintech fully driven by technology and data) company dedicated to creating Latin America’s first cross-border Neobank.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the February Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of digital IDs, including digital driver’s license initiatives around the country, biometric solutions for credit cards and the growing danger of fake profiles on social media. Biometrics are growing increasingly popular among credit card users.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

It looks like a race is shaping up to determine the future management of General Motors ’ credit card business. However, the Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that the London-based Barclays is also bidding for GM’s card business, while current issuer Capital One is unlikely to let the account go without a fight.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Global payments firm MoneyGram is advancing its Visa debit card deposit service across Europe in a partnership with Checkout.com and continued collaboration with Visa’s real-time push payments platform Visa Direct. In 2019, MoneyGram was the first company in the industry to enable cross-border transfers from the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Visa, which acquired Earthport in May 2019, said the sale will help to speed up Earthport’s growth of its larger core payments business. According to Bill Sheley, head of global push payments at Visa , the acquisition would help Visa to move “beyond the card” and achieve a “two-account disbursement model.” based Earthport.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, PayPal and Mastercard are adding more European Union (EU) countries to a debit card offering, while European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has called for a digital euro. PayPal, Mastercard Add 5 EU Countries To Debit Card Offering. Germany and the United Kingdom.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to the 2019 edition of the FBI’s Internet Crime Report , last year was both a lucrative and diverse year for cybercriminals and scammers. billion (or slightly over half) of all losses tracked in 2019. As for the scams themselves, those varied widely both in terms of tactics and targets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Adding the installment lending function to a bank card is suitable for all parties in the transaction,” said Brian Riley, director of the credit practice at Mercator Advisory Group , a Massachusetts consultant to the payments industry, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. Walgreens On Stopping Promotion Abuse Fraud Through Online Deals.

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Fintech News

MARCH 6, 2024

Are digital first banks in Asia poised to lead a disruptive charge against well-entrenched, established commercial banks? In the traditional banking sphere globally, but especially true in Asia, there is a considerable proportion of unbanked and underbanked populations who lack complete or any access to banking services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The payments digitization push has ramped up for corporates in recent months, with growing corporate card adoption attributed to the pandemic, recent Mastercard data reveals. Lawmakers Eye Expanded Fleet Card Use. Fleet service cards act just like credit cards at a gas station," Rep. Lawmakers in the U.S.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Building on previous policies, in 2020, six core strategic industries were introduced to link investment through Taiwan’s ‘Three Major Plans’ of 2019. These economies have since developed into fully advanced nations. Taiwan’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is over $35,000.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Apple will now be allowing 0 percent interest on financing options for several of its products, including the Mac lineup, iPad, AirPods Pro, AirPods, Apple Pencil and others, when paid for via the Apple Card. The company also wants to push the purchase of multiple Apple items that can work together as part of a package.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

NFCW.com reports the number of shoppers in Japan making these cell phone purchases at the point of sale is expected to reach 24 million by year’s end, up from 19 million in 2019, a 26 percent increase, encompassing more than 21 percent of the population, researchers found.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade. The goal for Mastercard going forward is figuring out how to expand its reach worldwide and into places that card products haven’t been — and may never go.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, we’ve moved to offerings like Visa Direct, which enables real-time push payment capabilities across account-to-account interactions — domestic and across borders — for consumers and small businesses. The conversation came against a backdrop where, at a high level, B2B payments account for $120 trillion globally on an annual basis.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While the anticipation for Amazon’s plunge into banking gets louder each year, it’s important to first understand Amazon’s existing strategy in financial services — what Amazon has launched and built, where the company is investing, and what recent products tell us about Amazon’s future ambitions. Amazon Payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The Montreal-based payment technology company was valued at $2 billion at the close of 2019. The news service, citing a source, said the IPO is expected to push that valuation to more than $3 billion. Nuvei Corp. Canada’s largest private non-bank payment processor, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in Canada Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

A year ago, as 2019 was turning over into 2020, the distinction between card-present transactions and card-not present transactions was highly relevant in the world of commerce. Friction that digitization for the card space can overcome, if done correctly in line with consumer convenience and need.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Treasury will allow two financial technology companies to issue prepaid Visa cards loaded with coronavirus stimulus payments. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had said a more efficient distribution of government funds would be achieved through digital delivery and prepaid card providers. So far, the agency has delivered 89.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Americans cut their credit card balances in August for the sixth consecutive month, the Federal Reserve System reported Wednesday (Oct. Revolving debt — mainly credit card debt — as reported by the central bank declined by $9.4 Economic forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg had, in the whole, predicted an increase in credit card spending.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. In August 2019, the company closed out its Series F funding round from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst at a $35B valuation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Visa has added a new partner in its quest to simplify, digitize and drive costs down in the global remittances space with its real-time push payments platform Visa Direct. Visa Direct has been used to process 2 billion transactions in 2019, a number it is looking to grow in 2020. And, as of today (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

In early September 2019, reports emerged that Amazon was testing hand recognition-based payments at Whole Foods locations using its New York employees and some custom-fitted vending machines as an initial experiment. The rumors about hand-based payments out of Amazon have been building for the last few months.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. A Couple of Important Dots.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

Separately, earlier this week, ACI Worldwide said it has extended a relationship with a South African bank, Capitec Bank , to support card and non-card payments through the UP Retail Payments solution, billed in a press release as “an integrated platform for all payment channels.” The year] 2019 is about Request For Payment (RFP). [The

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

million households lacked access to bank accounts as of 2019. and why it appears to be pushing the percentage of unbanked consumers up. and why it appears to be pushing the percentage of unbanked consumers up. percent in 2019, its lowest rate in a decade since the FDIC first began tracking this statistic in 2009.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This year, 2019, the average American will spend three hours and 43 minutes per day on mobile devices, just ahead of the three hours and 35 minutes spent watching television. Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Americans stopped talking to each other. Even better.

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