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Pandemic Has Consumers Embracing QR Codes And Contactless Payments

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While the global pandemic has taken a toll on almost every business, consumer demand for all things touchless is surging — and has even been a driver of growth for QR codes. Although the 20-year-old technology has long enjoyed strong adoption in Asia (especially China), 2020 could go down as the year that U.S.

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Mastercard’s Sadove Says The Resilient Consumer Saved Holiday 2020

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According to Mastercard ’s SpendingPulse transactional analysis, total retail spending for 2020’s 75 days of Christmas was up 3 percent, and eCommerce sales were up 49 percent — good for the stay-at-home economy and tough sledding for department stores. Most consumers start with their phone, and then it goes wherever they want to go.

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Disbursements Satisfaction Report 2020: Monetizing Payout Choice

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Consumers have been using internet technology for everything from nonessential health services to ordering from restaurants in the last few years, especially shopping more frequently online for retail products and groceries. percent of consumers and 30.5 Introduction. We surveyed more than 5,000 U.S. This is what we found. .

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The Shift Toward A Modern Disbursements Experience

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“As consumer and business digital adoption has catapulted over the last 12 weeks, when it comes to payments, there are certain status quos we will no longer accept.”. Modernizing payments is work that never ends, but the end game is a world of connected commerce and consumer preference. Remember the old adage “cash is king?”

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Summer 2020’s Hottest Accessory: The Safety Bubble

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It’s been 129 days since the NBA officially announced its shutdown and played its last regular-season game of 2020. Consumers lost jobs, burned through savings, worried that their businesses would never reopen or feared they would become casualties of a pandemic that has claimed the lives of some 140,000 Americans to date.

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Remote Onboarding Boom Being Secured By Multifactor Authentication

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Overtaxing the royal attention span — that of the consumer — is a mistake, so multifactor authentication (MFA) processes are morphing in various ways to reduce onboarding frictions while maintaining rigorous multifactor authentication (MFA) and other fraud-fighting tools. Taking Authentication To The Streets.

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Zimswitch Taps ACI Worldwide to Protect Zimbabweans From Payment Fraud

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Through this implementation, Zimswitch aims to bolster the security of Zimbabwe’s digital payment infrastructure and provide an elevated level of protection and security for financial institutions and consumers. In 2020, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe designated Zimswitch as the national payment switch.