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What is a Surcharge Fee? How it Helps Consumers and Businesses

Stax

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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How To Capture The Consumer With Digital Wallets In Their Purses And Back Pockets

PYMNTS

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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Mastercard Goes OTP-Free in APAC for Faster, Safer Online Transactions

Fintech Finance

As payments become more intricate, Mastercard today announced the latest enhancement to its new Mastercard Payment Passkey Service which enables secure, on-device biometric authentication through facial scans or fingerprints, the same way consumers unlock their phones every day.

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Payments 2024: Predictions With Brightwell, 40Seas, Wink, ConnectPay, Swipesum, Paystrax

The Fintech Times

Consumers and businesses are increasingly demanding quicker payments,” she says. She added: “Digital payments will become ubiquitous, with cashless transactions becoming the norm for both domestic and cross-border payments.”

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Wells Fargo Launches Contactless Credit, Debit Cards

PYMNTS

Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (April 2) the launch of contactless consumer credit and debit cards. In a press release , Wells Fargo said the new cards will enable customers to complete transactions quickly and with a single tap at millions of merchants and transit systems that accept contactless payments.

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Delivering Instant, Guaranteed Funds to Consumers

PYMNTS

Whether it’s checking a bank account balance or placing an order online, consumers expect fast, convenient and immediate results. PYMNTS: How do push payments differ from faster payments? DE: The idea of fast funds continues to consume an outsized proportion of the industry’s headspace. Here is an excerpt of the conversation.

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Bringing Order To Chaos: Open Banking Meets Healthcare Payments

PYMNTS

Add to that the fact that consumers often don’t pay — not because they can’t, but because they get entirely lost in the “complexity … of payments hoisted on them,” he said. One such innovation has been i2c’s collaboration with SmartHealth to use an open banking platform to build the first credit card dedicated solely to healthcare.