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The Fintech Times
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Merchants and consumers in the UAE are going to have greater accessibility to make real-time transactions following a new partnership between digital payments firm, Checkout.com and payments juggernaut, Visa. billion card, account, and wallet endpoints through a single entry point. ” Why Visa Direct? ” Why Visa Direct?
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Fintech News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Payments giant Mastercard has introduced Bill Qkr , a digital solution aimed at simplifying recurring and one-time bill payments for consumers and businesses. The service also improves guest checkout through Click to Pay, enhancing the ease of online transactions while increasing approval rates.
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The Fintech Times
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Feedzai , an AI solution provider in financial crime prevention, is teaming up with payments giant Mastercard , to makeit easier for more banks to identify and stop scams, protecting consumers and businesses globally. As payments continue to evolve, fraudsters are increasingly using AI to scam consumers.
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Fintech Finance
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The Digital Future Forum highlighted the evolving preferences and behaviors of Vietnamese consumers. Increasingly drawn to international travel, luxury purchases, and digital transactions, Vietnamese consumers are part of a strong trend towards experiential consumption. Vietnams stable inflation and projected GDP growth of 6.1%
The Payments Association
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In the world of digital payments, fraud is an ever-present threat that continues to evolve, creating serious risks for both businesses and consumers. In the world of digital payments, fraud is an ever-present threat that continues to evolve, creating serious risks for both businesses and consumers. What’s next?
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Payments Source
MAY 5, 2021
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Payments Dive
JUNE 25, 2024
Democrats in the Keystone state’s House of Representatives are pushing a bill that would prohibit interchange fees from applying to sales tax when consumers make credit or debit card payments.
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The Payments Association
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The Payments Association (TPA)’s George Iddenden recently sat down with Peter Theunis, senior vice president sales and European managing director at BPC to discuss the remarkable transformation of the payments processing industry, driven by the rise of fintech, the shift towards digital payments, and evolving consumer behaviours.
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Fintech Finance
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The partnership will feature two groundbreaking solutions: Mea Push Provisioning and Mea Card Data. MeaWallet , a leader in tokenization and digital payment solutions, announces its partnership with Backbase , the creator of the Engagement Banking Platform.
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Fintech News
JANUARY 14, 2025
According to The State of Digital Retail Payments in Asia Pacific 2024 by Forrester , high-growth economies like Indonesia and Malaysia are leading the shift, with consumers increasingly favouring digital payments. While online payments have taken off, many consumers still favour credit cards or cash for offline purchases.
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Payments Source
APRIL 16, 2019
Payments providers can use this announcement as a chance to evaluate their mobile payment offerings and gain a better understanding of consumers’ evolving expectations in order to better serve their merchants, writes Casey Bullock, general manager of global enterprise e-commerce for North America at Worldpay.
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Payments Source
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Consumers avoiding stores because of COVID-19 have driven triple-digit sales growth of Blackhawk’s gift cards sold through retailers’ websites, with the final weeks of the year expected to push digital cards to a tipping point.
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Clearly Payments
JANUARY 15, 2025
If you run a business, youre aware of the basic fees for accepting credit card payments. depending on the credit card. increase in fees can mean thousands of dollars lost each year for a business making steady credit card sales. Assessment Fees What It Is: Charged by the card networks (Visa, Mastercard, etc.)
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The Fintech Times
MARCH 14, 2025
Digital-first financial institutions have become key drivers behind cards’ sustained presence and growth in rising economies, according to new data revealed by EBANX , the global payment service provider (PSP). These digital solutions have pushed traditional payment methods to evolve and adapt to meet modern consumer expectations.”
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In a time of increasing change for retailers and consumers, the current global climate has begun accelerating the future of retail trends at a much quicker pace than previously envisioned. However, one thing still rings true: Consumers need a reason to change ingrained behaviors. By contrast, U.S. By contrast, U.S.
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The Payments Association
MARCH 19, 2025
According to Yaccarino, the partnership will allow for secure and instant funding to users X Wallet via Visa Direct, connecting to their debit cards and allowing for peer-to-peer payments. By replacing the need for physical cash or cards, they allow seamless payments via smartphones, tablets, or other connected devices.
Fintech Finance
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The results reflect growing adoption of the FedNow Service and RTP Network and an expanding array of use cases in both consumer and business contexts. Eighty percent of respondents identified faster payments as a must have, with financial institutions leading the charge at 84%, said FPC Executive Director Reed Luhtanen.
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 18, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced one ray of sunshine amid otherwise devastatingly dark clouds: Consumer credit scores have improved in recent months to the point of hitting a new record high, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (Oct. For many years, consumers have been credited with driving about two-thirds of U.S.
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The Fintech Times
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, it’s been an eventful year for the payments industry, marked by rapid innovation, unexpected challenges, and evolving consumer expectations. Camerling added: “The growing importance of in-person payment orchestration, often referred to as card-present payment orchestration, has been a highlight.
The Payments Association
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
For instance, decreasing authorized push payment (APP) fraud is still a key priority for the UKs Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in 2025. For instance, decreasing authorized push payment (APP) fraud is still a key priority for the UKs Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in 2025. Its a great time to be a fraudster.
Fintech News
JANUARY 26, 2025
This shiftis not merely a matter of convenience; it is emblematic of an increasingly complex convergence between state-of-the-art technology, consumer desires for seamlessness, and the regions particular socio-economic landscape. In 2023, credit card payments comprised 52.2% of all cashless transactions in Japan.
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Fintech Finance
MARCH 12, 2025
Digital-first financial institutions have become key drivers behind cards’ sustained presence and growth in rising economies. This trend is gaining traction in other countries in Latin America, mainly Colombia (21%) and Argentina (19%), where digital banking expansion and intense fintech activity are pushing card issuance.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Between the explosion of the digital economy driven by the pressures of the pandemic and the radical realignment of consumer preferences that has happened as a result, the year 2020 has seen digital payments accelerate at something approaching warp speed. It’s a consumer choice, [offering] everything and anything they want,” Turner said. “We
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Stax
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As consumers, most of us have looked at last month’s credit card statement and experienced the panic of not recognizing a charge. But credit card chargebacks also occur for a variety of other reasons and they’re not always honest. What Are Credit Card Chargebacks?
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Fintech Finance
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
customers real-time1 fund transfers to and from bank accounts via debit card with its Deliver API solution, powered by Visa Direct. Orum customers will now be able to use its Deliver solution to reach 99% of bank accounts in the US via a linked debit card.
The Payments Association
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The growing adoption of mobile and internet technology and rising consumer expectations for instant payment experiences will drive financial inclusion forward. trillion transactions by 2027. A team of Paymentologys payment experts explore what we can expect to see in the payments industry next year.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
As of late October, data released by LendingTree indicated that a quarter of consumers were already finished with their holiday shopping for 2020. A pick-up in consumers looking to get the jump on the biggest shopping season of the year seems to be a certainty, with large swaths of customers buying more and earlier.
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Fintech Finance
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Runa Assure was purpose-built for instant payout methods, including gift cards, prepaid, and push-to-card, and now protects over two million unique recipients every month. By automating fraud prevention, Runa Assure lifts the burden off finance and operations teams, eliminating the need for time-consuming investigations.
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Fintech Finance
APRIL 2, 2025
This new feature enables both individuals and businesses to add their debit cards to Google Wallet, making payments more convenient and secure. This trend underscores a significant shift in consumer behavior towards mobile-enabled, contactless payments. myTUs business customers will also benefit from this new functionality.
Fintech News
JANUARY 7, 2025
Singapore’s government has clarified that the Shared Responsibility Framework will not apply to credit card fraud cases, citing existing robust protections for consumers. This clarification came in response to a parliamentary question on the prevalence of credit card fraud in the country. million each year.
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Finovate
APRIL 10, 2025
Traditional card-based transactions are increasingly being challenged with alternative payment methods such as pay-by-bank, in which consumers make direct, account-to-account transfers without the need for a card network. This shift is being driven by the rise of open banking and a push for lower-cost, real-time payment options.
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Payments Source
MARCH 28, 2019
consumers to send cross-border remittances in real time via Visa Direct, the card network’s debit push-payments service. Visa and Remitly have formed a partnership enabling U.S.
114 
Stax
MARCH 27, 2025
Thats why 92% of consumers and 82% of companies reportedly made the switch to electronic payments, like Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) and Automated Clearing House (ACH). Digital wallets accounted for 50% of eCommerce purchases , while debit cards raked up 12% of total transactions last year. Checks can bounce, and cash can get lost.
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Stax
DECEMBER 6, 2023
In an era defined by digital transactions and cashless payments, the process of paying for goods and services is more convenient, and increasingly reliant on credit card transactions. However, as the popularity of credit cards and digital wallet payments continues to surge, the costs associated with accepting them also do.
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Fintech Finance
AUGUST 22, 2024
The service is available for the holders of NBK Debit Cards (Only on international spends), NBK Foreign Currency Prepaid Card, and NBK Multi-Currency Prepaid Card. The service is available for the holders of NBK Debit Cards (Only on international spends), NBK Foreign Currency Prepaid Card, and NBK Multi-Currency Prepaid Card.
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The Fintech Times
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Consumer Duty, a set of rules aimed at enhancing consumer protection in the financial services sector, came into force in July 2023. 2023 saw the introduction of a new Consumer Duty, setting higher and clearer standards of consumer protection across financial services, and requiring firms to put customers’ needs first.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2021
Going to the branch still outscores using a bank website, according to PYMNTS’ recent Paradigm Shift report , and consumers would still rather get their messages from their financial institution via an email than via a mobile app. What Consumers Need . A good example of this phenomenon in action is loyalty rewards.
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Fintech Finance
APRIL 10, 2025
Checkout.com , a leading global digital payments company, today announced its intention to expand its card issuing capabilities in the UAE, marking a first-of-its-kind investment by a global digital payment service provider in the region. Checkout.com aims to roll out domestic card issuance in the region in 2026, pending regulatory approval.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
In an announcement of completion of the deal, Visa said it will accelerate the global payments and credit card company’s “network of networks” strategy. Under that strategy, Visa is pushing to become a “single point of access for initiating multiple transaction types” while also laying the foundation for the “secure movement of money.”.
Fintech News
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Initiatives like QRIS (Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard), a national standard for QR code payments launched in 2019, have allowed for standardization, making it easier for businesses and consumers, while collaboration between the government and fintech firms have helped enhance financial inclusion through clear regulations.
Paystand
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Table of Contents What Is a Push-to-Card (P2C) Payment? How Do Push-to-Card Payments Work? How Are Push-to-Card Payments Used? What Are the Advantages of Push-to-Card Payments? What Is an Example of a Push Payment?
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Fintech Finance
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
This groundbreaking solution, with the proof-of-concept phase already launched at several sites in Johannesburg and Cape Town, will allow customers to pay with major credit cards at Rubicon charging stations for the first time. The system then reserves a predefined amount on the users credit card before the charging starts.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 11, 2020
That’s the reality that the majority of consumers — 78 percent, according to Blackhawk’s data — are already anticipating a post-pandemic world where their shopping habits will permanently shift to digital. Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth. She said a few factors — some more obvious than others — are pushing that trend.
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The Payments Association
JANUARY 3, 2025
Fraudsters, armed with advanced technologies and professional networks, are exploiting gaps in systems and consumer behaviour. Mark McMurtrie (TPA) opened the session by presenting data showing how fraud tactics have shifted from physical card theft to more sophisticated digital scams.
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