PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Retail spending may be helping to spur freight volumes, and to push already lofty pricing higher. That’s because consumer demand is picking up, but retail inventories are relatively low. As Eric Starks , president and CEO of FTR, was quoted as saying, high demand and low inventories “put pressure on the movement of goods.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Retail spending may be helping to spur freight volumes, and to push already lofty pricing higher. That’s because consumer demand is picking up, but retail inventories are relatively low. As Eric Starks , president and CEO of FTR, was quoted as saying, high demand and low inventories “put pressure on the movement of goods.”

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Indonesia and the Philippines lead in e-wallet usage, with 92% and 87% of respondents, respectively, using the payment method, especially QR payments and mobile payment apps. The Digital Payments Transformation Roadmap (DPTR) , introduced in 2020, aims to convert at least 50% of all retail payment transactions into digital form by 2023.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The report , Employees with Benefits , explores employees’ growing demands and needs as their benefits landscape evolves. Adapting to changing demands Employers have had to adjust to new employee demands as it becomes clear that the pre-pandemic working environment and associated attitudes are no longer acceptable in the modern day.

AI 57

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Small- and medium-sized businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, but most are scrambling into digital pivots to blunt the impact of physical stores’ shutdowns, Colleen Taylor , executive vice president and head of merchant services at Wells Fargo , told Karen Webster during a recent conversation. A Focus on Contactless Commerce.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2016

What’s the biggest obstacle facing the on-demand delivery economy? However, what if the lack of control and oversight the industry has over its nebulously categorized workers might instead pose the biggest threat to the on-demand economy’s explosive growth? Moreover, it appears that Ele.me

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Square’s Q1 ended with slowing gross payment volumes , pushed by the pandemic and the shuttering of merchant locations, while the company also took reserves against potential losses. There was some upside to Square’s earnings report — the surging popularity of Cash App pushed by stimulus payment deposits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Before CEO Toffer Grant founded PEX , he worked in the world of prepaid cards (gift cards in particular), where Christmas was the biggest challenge of every year. Gift card use would faithfully and intensely spike around Christmas, only to settle back to a more typical baseline six to eight weeks after the “event.”.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 20, 2024

After years of pushing to a fully digital payments landscape that will in theory see a cashless economy in the (reasonably) near future, it could all come tumbling down after a series of technical issues that has seen major retailers unable to process card or contactless payments and once again relying on notes and coins.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Connected-economy companies led 2020’s surprisingly successful roster of U.S. Here are some of the most important connected-economy IPOs expected in 2021, listed in order of either their last publicly estimated or confirmed valuation or published reports indicating what a company expects its value at IPO to be: Instacart ($30 Billion) .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It was not uncommon for drivers to have to fork over as much as a third of their wages to the taxi company, as well as payment to lease the taxi and an additional 10 percent for any fares put on a credit card. As independent contractors, drivers also have no benefits. Turning a Blind Eye.

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Open Banking Excellence

JANUARY 9, 2024

Consumer expectations are rising as regulators push for increased competition and innovation to meet evolving consumer demands. According to a recent McKinsey report, the Insurtech industry already contributes £5 billion and 60,000 jobs to the UK economy.

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The Payments Association

OCTOBER 14, 2024

These design flaws could undermine efforts to create a public digital payments system for the future economy. These design mistakes are important, in no small part, because they could undermine the important task of developing a public payment option for the digital economy. Why is it important? What’s next?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

Instant payments — and the ability to push funds immediately across the debit rails to consumer bank accounts — has entered something of a renaissance. Today Visa , with Visa Direct , has added another use case for push payments — this time on a global scale. Visa Direct is the card network’s instant push payments platform.

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Number of Businesses in Canada Let’s take a closer look at Canadian businesses – the heartbeat of our economy. million businesses driving the Canadian economy forward. million businesses driving the Canadian economy forward. Non-employer businesses are simply single businesses with no employees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Those workers, according to reports, are demanding many things — hazard pay, better and more thorough cleaning in stores, more readily available PPE supplies and more access to the COVID-19 vaccine. And while unions are actively advocating for their members, increasing employers are joining in the push. But on Monday (Jan.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 8, 2024

The collaboration comes at a crucial time for Nigeria, which is actively promoting a cashless economy, focusing on streamlined transactions and simplified auditing processes. The Middle East and Africa (MEA) has emerged as a region that is no stranger to innovation.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 10, 2024

Payouts has many use cases such as business-to-business (B2B) account payables, gig economy wages, insurance claims, tax refunds, sales commissions, tips, contractor payouts, and more. ” Finix will utilize Mastercard Send and Visa Direct to enable card-based payouts allowing U.S. and Pathward Financial, Inc.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s never a good sign when, during a pandemic, the expert opinion on the ground is that the U.S. is currently in the process of “rounding the corner into a calamity.” The number of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals reached record levels on Saturday evening (Nov. But will people take it when it arrives?

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Mastercard Payment Passkey Service is a game changer for online commerce: Shoppers choose their Mastercard when checking out as a guest or select a card already stored securely on file with a merchant. With payment passkeys, consumers can say goodbye to the hassle of forgetting or accidentally sharing their passwords or OTPs.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 8, 2024

The collaboration comes at a crucial time for Nigeria, which is actively promoting a cashless economy, focusing on streamlined transactions and simplified auditing processes. With approximately 100 million MSMEs in Africa and 42 million in Nigeria alone, consumer payments on the continent are projected to exceed $2.1 trillion by 2025.

Financial Inclusion 52

Financial Inclusion Point-of-Sale (POS) Settlement Addressing 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

The pandemic is causing fluctuations in the global economy, and supply and demand shifts are causing many businesses to face liquidity stresses and limited credit access. Such touchless payment options are being used alongside traditional ones like credit cards and checks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Jess Turner, Mastercard’s executive vice president for North America Products and Innovation, tells PYMNTS the venture is just one part of the firm’s push to help gig workers get benefits. With gig-economy participation rising and U.S. With gig-economy participation rising and U.S. 15) following the partnership’s announcement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

On-demand wage service provider FlexWage has announced it is working with Fiserv to power disbursements to employees using its service. Their collaboration means users of the FlexWage branded card can send wages directly to checking accounts when they choose.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While 134 countries and currency unions, representing 98 per cent of global GDP, are currently exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Bank of Canada has revealed it is officially putting efforts to introduce a digital version of the Canadian dollar on pause. Since 2020, interest in CBDC potential across the globe has skyrocketed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

The gig economy has changed — and is still changing — when we work, how we work and, of course, how we get paid. Readers of this space may recall some stats at the end of last year, where the PYMNTS Gig Economy Index found that as many as one-third of workers in the U.S. have had a problem getting paid at times.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

India’s Paytm and Brazil’s Nubank could soon turn the corner to profitability thanks to surging demand for digital payment services in India and Brazil amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We It also provides lending services such as merchant cash loans, personal loans, and credit cards.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The rise of the gig economy, heightened customer demands, and business globalization have all introduced new ways that businesses can use outgoing payments as a strategy for growth, profit and customer loyalty. But supplier payments are far from the only scenario in which businesses face friction when initiating a transaction.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But the pressure is on to change that, initially created by digital-first firms that have pushed rapidly into instant disbursements because they weren’t tied to old, paper-based, batch-dependent legacy systems. And the past eight months of a rapidly digitizing economy amid COVID-19 have drastically accelerated that.

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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.

Push-to-Card 98

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

With commercial credit cards historically viewed as a payment vehicle for businesses to make one-off purchases for the office or while on a business trip, the small business credit card has yet to catch up to adoption volumes seen by other payment methods like direct bank transfers in the B2B payments space. Opening Access To Capital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The “glass half full” look at that score, Edwards observed, is that there’s a lot of room for improvement in a world where consumer expectations for access can be summed up in two words: on demand. But data shows that what consumers increasingly do want is money pushed to them via the alias known as the debit card.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The concept is both incredibly simple and incredibly intuitive: Offer customers 24/7 access to good funds on demand, however and wherever they want them. But delivering on that concept — and providing instant push payments on demand — is far from simple. Consumers live in a real-time world. Edwards said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

And yet Japan remains a heavily cash-based economy, Darren Abrahamson , managing director of Bain Capital Tech Opportunities told Karen Webster. First, Japan’s younger generation is becoming a larger part of the consumer economy and demanding a change to digital to match their tech-friendly habits. The Shifting Japanese Market.

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Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It will be able to deliver localized and cross-border money transfer services, alongside supporting merchant acquisition services to an eager and increasingly demanding universe of local and international merchants conducting business within this marketplace. million in 2023, and the annual value of card transactions estimated to exceed $107.3

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Clearly Payments

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In today’s global economy in 2024, the financial transactions has evolved into a dynamic ecosystem, where a multitude of players work together to facilitate fast and secure payment processing. For instance, the global payment processing market is estimated to reach a monumental $587.78 As of 2023, there were over 4.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered mobile payments in India and primed them to overtake card payments in the not-too-distant, S&P Global Market Intelligence said this week in its 2020 India Mobile Payments Market Report. By contrast, debit- and credit-card use only increased by 24 percent to $204 billion during the same period.

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Mobile Payments Online and Mobile Banking Contactless Payments Push-to-Card 56