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Vantiv, PPRO Team On Alternative Payment Methods

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Vantiv, a provider of payment processing services and technology for merchants and financial institutions, announced it, along with PPRO Group, a cross-border ePayment provider, are partnering up to provide international alternative payment methods (APMs) to Vantiv’s merchants. We are proud to have one of the largest U.S.

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Simplifying Alternative Payment Methods Across A Global Stage

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Alternative payment methods. Not just buzzwords or stakeholders in payments. But between the promise and the reality, some connectivity is on order, bringing consumers payment options – and merchants toward better conversion rates when it comes to online commerce. Data Point One: 17.6 Data Point Two: Three Billion.

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Alternative Payments Gain Global Traction, But Cash Remains Tough Foe

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The recent announcement that China’s UnionPay and Huawei are teaming up to bring Huawei Pay to Russia stands as the latest example that alternative payments are spreading to different parts of the world. That company, in fact, recently reported a more than twelvefold boost in revenue at its Indian payments subsidiary.

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The Alternative Payments Explosion Is Here, Are You Ready?

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Fraudsters are always looking for unsuspecting payments types that can be used to perpetrate their crimes. Today, that means alternative payment methods, or APMs. It’s no surprise that as credit cards have increased in security, the payment hustlers have been hard at work finding other payment method avenues to fraud.

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Why Alt Payments Give Airlines And OTAs A Boost

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After 83 years in business, UATP is spreading its payment wings and leveraging its rails and connections to airlines to enable payment via a method other than its own branded service. These alternative forms of payment are important for airlines to embrace because they “drive incremental payments revenue,” Kaiser said.

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PPRO: The 10 Fastest Growing Global eCommerce Markets

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Second, people in these markets don’t pay with credit cards. So, when eCommerce comes knocking, someone has to come up with an alternative payment method that lets people who are used to transacting in cash or bank transfers access goods online. WeChat Pay is the largest eWallet in the world, with 1.3

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Startup Roundup: New Innovations In Bloom

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India is shaping up to leapfrog plastic payments, putting it leaps and bounds ahead of the payments systems in most of the rest of the world. Second, the government has incentivized alternative payment methods. A few factors have contributed to this.