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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Online payments firm Paysafe is nearing a deal with billionaire Bill Foley for a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger, according to a Bloomberg report, intending for Paysafe to go public. In addition, Foley launched another SPAC, Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp.,

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In a first-of-its-kind partnership, FLEETCOR company Sem Parar is teaming with Nissan on contactless payments in Brazil. Netto continued, “This partnership signals a leap in payments innovation for consumers and we look forward to bringing the benefits of Sem Parar to Nissan customers.”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Users of OneMart will also receive integrated payment processing with the technology because of a collaboration with Payroc, according to the announcement. Sayyah said Aleran Software’s clients requested an easy and cost-efficient website builder that was scalable and created for B2B online shopping.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Spending Insights tool uses data from Google Maps to find out where and when a payment was made. It also includes Payment Track’s fraud prevention capabilities, which enable users to immediately put their account on hold if they see anything suspicious. He comes from American Express as its head of credit risk for U.K.

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JUNE 8, 2017

According to a report , Apple Pay had been the only service allowed to use Apple’s near-field communications chip that enables contactless payments. In the document, it looks like the chip in the latest version of the iPhone can read any tag, not just an Apple Pay tag, and take actions on the tags based on the location of the phone.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The new partnership between the two firms will, according to their joint release, offer shoppers the benefit of seamless payments via their smartphones no matter where they happen to be in a store, using the combined power SES-imagotag’s digital price tags and Wirecard’s payment technology.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

In the Real-Time Payments Tracker, Alvarez explains how pre-transaction verification and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analysis can help lenders quickly vet and disburse loans in real time. COVID-19’s Price Tag Leaves Large Hospitals At Financial Risk.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Intuit closed a deal to buy Credit Karma for a price tag of $7.1 Lately, banks, payment processors, brokerage firms and others have been scrambling to acquire startups and companies considered disruptive or innovative in the field. Global Payments spent $27 billion doing an all-stock buyout of TSYS. billion on Monday (Feb.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made some payment moves to boost the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) in the country, according to the Business Standard. . The bank is going to allow non-bank prepaid payments (PPIs) and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to link to FASTags, which is used to pay for things like tolls and parking.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

Hiromi Yamaoka , a former senior official in charge of payment and settlement systems at the Bank of Japan, said China's recent move toward adopting digital yuan had inspired other countries to try their hands at it, the report says. He said he wanted the city to be the "vanguard" of innovation for crypto.

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JULY 16, 2020

Don’t look now, but Facebook just took another big step into the world of online shopping and digital payments. Businesses looking to sell their wares and products on Instagram Shop can create collections in their shops on Instagram and tag products in their content, Facebook said.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The feature is expected to appeal to creators and brands, and will also allow users to add shopping tags to their posts. eBay: Offline Payment Preferences Are Changing Online Habits. Visa's Cybersource: The Frictionless Fix Is in for Physical Retail’s Broken Business Model.

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APRIL 7, 2020

All options cost money, however, and high price tags on gear, classes or personalized training plans can deter individuals from achieving their health goals. Meanwhile, BNPL solutions firm Afterpay has partnered with athleisure companies like Flex-N-Flex, Gymshark and Versus to enable them to offer payment plans for workout clothing.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Digital payments form a critical facet of the world’s economy, facilitating the flow of tens of trillions of dollars among individuals and businesses each year. These challenges are only exacerbated when payments move across international borders, usually accomplished via correspondence banking.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Users have the ability to chat directly with potential roommates and to send and receive payments using the in-app messaging feature. They can select which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, much like a dating website. Half of the traveler’s payment is refunded to them when a mutual match occurs.

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JULY 15, 2020

On Musk’s account, a tweet appeared asking for bitcoin, promising to double all payments sent to an address. A tweet from Apple (its first-ever tweet) and another from Bezos were similar to Musk’s, promising to double payments in bitcoin for anyone visiting an address posted.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

As noted in this space over the weekend, there already exists a preliminary agreement between Cardtronics and the investment firms, but the higher price tag offered by NCR will likely spark a re-examination of a deal. NCR made its bid official on Monday morning (Jan.

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While every business needs a bookkeeper to manage payments, billing, and cash flow, entrepreneurs should consider outsourcing their accounting needs. Small business owners can avoid the hefty price tag and time commitment of installing sophisticated programs on their own. Proper accounting is one such example.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Ivalua is also offering a supplier document management tool, subcontract payment management solutions, p-card management, subcontractor management, and compliance tools, amid other features. The project began in 2016 with a price tag of $30.5 Now we can deliver even greater value in less time than ever before.”

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. When a consumer or a company wants to send a payment, they can now do so instantly from their smartphone with services such as Apple Pay or Venmo. percent — of payments executives are focused on real-time payments.

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JULY 22, 2019

The downside, however, is that attackers may sell stolen data on the dark web and, once a ransom is paid, those hackers may demand payment again later , Bush warned. . When you pay, the files are decrypted in nearly 100 percent of the cases because it’s automated when the payment is received. What’s the alternative?” .

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MARCH 5, 2019

The NFC Forum , the standards and advocacy association for Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, released its NFC Money Transfer Candidate Specification (NMT) on Tuesday (March 5), giving payment service providers and consumers the chance to use available NFC payment solutions as an alternative to QR codes.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Although the tactic appears to be new and relatively small in volume, reports in TechRadar said the strategy often involves a fake vendor payment form to infiltrate B2B payment workflows. As the threat of B2B payments fraud persists, PYMNTS looks at the data behind some of the other latest cases of such digital scams.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

A “From Facebook” tag will be will be visible in all marketing for Instagram and WhatsApp brands. Facebook is close to launching its WhatsApp payments service in India. Leaders for Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp started reporting directly to Zuckerberg in March. WhatsApp cost Facebook $19 billion a few years later.

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

The government has claimed that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020. In addition, there are plans to make payments for all government services cashless by next year.

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APRIL 26, 2019

To settle charges of insider trading, the ex-chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems Inc. In 2015, it was reported that Global Payments announced that it would buy Heartland Payments in a widely anticipated deal. Carr founded Heartland as a small payments processing startup based in Princeton, New Jersey in 1997.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Merchants in the travel industry, for instance, are dealing with a restructure in the ways payments can be made and accepted under the EU regulation. The change is just one of many that PSD2 is bringing to payments within the EU. Solving for SCA’s $100-Billion-a-Year Problem. PSD 2, GDPR Adoption Challenges.

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MAY 10, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Best Buy Minimizes Iconic Price Tag In New Logo. The new design moves Best Buy ’s wordmark outside the giant yellow tag, making it a less noticeable part of the layout. Sears Inks Deal With Amazon To Install Tires Bought Online.

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JULY 21, 2017

As reported Friday (July 21), American multinational financial services firm Blackstone and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners have bid to acquire payments processor Paysafe Group. And, in other news, Paysafe is making its own play for payment services provider Merchants’ Choice Payments Solutions (MCPS).

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

But Google’s push to get commerce and payments connected more fully, especially amid the pandemic, merit some attention on their own. More recently, embedded payments came to Waze and the firm announced functionality that lets consumers pay at the pump at ExxonMobil and Shell Oil (using, for example, QR codes at the pumps themselves).

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APRIL 12, 2019

Wibmo’s offerings span security, quick-response (QR) codes, authentication, mobile payments and prepaid cards. While Wibmo will run a wholly owned subsidiary and will maintain its branding, reports indicate that “the appeal to PayU appears to be an opportunity to own touchpoints across the payment process.”.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Purchases can be categorized as business or personal spend, while users can also add custom tags to purchases. Earlier this year, Microsoft integrated peer-to-peer (P2P) payment functionality on its Kaizala solution in India, an enterprise communications platform.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Commercial fleet payments solution provider Fleetcor once again beat Wall Street expectations when it reported its 2018 third quarter earnings data Tuesday (Oct. 30) evening, coinciding with the announcement of a new contactless payment partnership with McDonald’s in Brazil. “I hope the message is clear.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

A payments service provider based in the U.K., Providing customers with mobile, telephone and online payment capabilities on a multi-currency platform, moneycorp also enables them to exchange money through 120 currencies. That deal marked the company’s first foray into the South American market. The company said it took care of 5.9

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The PYMNTS Weekender has all the latest reading material on payments and commerce news you'll need for the long weekend. Amazon Pay Rolls Out Touchless Payments With Alexa At More Than 11,000 ExxonMobil Stations. New Data: The Role Of Touchless Payments In Shaping Consumer Merchant Choice (How We Shop).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Visa , the payments company, announced news on Wednesday (Nov. 8) of the introduction of three commercially available wearable payment devices for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Visa is also launching payment-enabled gloves that will allow customers to make payments while keeping their hands warm.

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APRIL 8, 2020

This price tag is more than a four-year public college degree – which currently clocks in at $98,440, on average – and includes both gym memberships and fitness classes like Pilates or spin. Consumers and merchants, however, are gravitating to BNPL for its payment terms and fee structure.

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