PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Some bitcoin companies see this period as a time to push the adoption of bitcoin in a country that has a large unbanked population at 21 percent. The merchant Zebpay is enabling some of its users to buy discount gift cards of popular U.S. But on a more commercial note, Indians are expected to spend as much as $1.7

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

JPM’s digital push, a theme it refers to as “Mobile First, Digital Everything,” is showing positive early results. JPM boasts an industry leading credit card network. With an elite rewards network, JPM is able to use its credit cards as a lever to attract and retain valuable clients. First Name.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

PayPal has had a pretty busy 2016. And while the first four months of the year in general have been active — particularly as PayPal has worked to distinguish itself as a standalone entity after spending over a decade as the payments arm of eBay — the last week has seen announcements coming left and right out of PayPal HQ in San Jose.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

Which brought about news from some of the biggest players in mobile payments, like Xoom, PayPal and Western Union. President Barack Obama wasn’t alone on his historic trip to Cuba this week; he also brought execs from major companies to stand by his side, including PayPal CEO Dan Schulman. And everyone wanted in.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Instead, startups in the payments processing, commercial card and cybersecurity market landed the top rounds of the week — with one company securing a $3 billion valuation with its massive investment. Drip Capital. Though the firm is headquartered in the U.S., Drip said it will use the funds raised to scale up and enter new markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

Later that day, Visa and PayPal announced a partnership of epic proportions that will, among other things, mitigate the fear that PayPal will ever again steer Visa cardholders to ACH debit payments. Just when you think that it’s going to be hard, once again, to find a Sizzle, yesterday happens. Payments and Consumer Choice.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

About 18 years ago PayPal’s digital money scheme hit the market. This self-described vision for a “new PayPal” takes PayPal down a very interesting – and perhaps even a paradoxical — path. “I think stepping into the role when I did was certainly a historic moment for PayPal,” Schulman said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The B2B payments industry continues its push to break businesses’ habit of using paper checks, but players are divided on what payment rail should take their place. In Karmic Labs’ latest white paper , “Prepaid Expense Cards: Helping Small Businesses Solve Cash Flow Dilemmas,” researchers surveyed U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

A pair of late 2016 studies indicated that Japanese consumers, despite being digitally enthused, vastly preferred to make their payments in cash , with 70 percent of consumers across demographic groups reflecting that preference. It’s the market that should ignite but stubbornly refuses to. percent).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

It may not be the year of mobile payments — yet — but it is certainly the year mobile payments players are laying the groundwork for what they know is inevitable. This week, PYMNTS dug into the week of mobile pay news to bring you the latest from the ecosystem. And that was just in the past four days. And that was just in the past four days.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ten years after PayPal launched, it was operating in 190 countries and had 60 million users. Ten years after Visa and Mastercard launched, they had each licensed their tech to thousands of banks that had cards in the hands of millions of consumers, who were using them to buy things at millions of merchants. The end of this month, Oct.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Consultants will don a Bluetooth reader that pairs with Apple iOS or Android smartphones or tablets, to accept payment of credit and debit cards. From makeup to jewelry, mobile payments are all about accessorizing going into the fall season. Visa announced its mVisa service is coming to Nigeria. Global Payments, The SME Market And Mary Kay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Dimon’s annual letter to stockholders usually has something eye-catching to offer, and 2016 was no exception. This week marked the 181th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens — or, as he he is better known to his many generations of fans, Mark Twain. And Mr. Twain has largely remained unrivaled in the field of quotability. (If

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

And you want to combine these traditional forms of payment with new payment technologies like bank cards, and PayPal , and other electronic payments.” ” B2B eCommerce platforms, he continued, “don’t want to only do bank cards, and don’t only want to do bank transfers. They want to combine them.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

Gift cards — no longer gathering dust in envelopes stuffed in the backs of drawers or forgotten in purses. Our thesis was: I spent a lot of time in the personal finance space,” said Hines, speaking of the general genesis of the firm toward the end of 2015 and into 2016. “Our

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Kelly also highlighted a number of new solutions that leverage Visa’s card rails and that are getting traction. Visa Direct , Visa’s digital disbursements solution, saw volumes increase by 75 percent over last year, driven by push payment demand from the U.S. That sent Visa’s stock price up 2 percent, to a record high of $110.61.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

2016, it’s no wonder that payments is an integral part of the company’s operations. That means that sellers can accept any form of payment offered on the Etsy marketplace — network-branded credit cards, as well as digital wallets, such as PayPal and Apple Pay. million buyers and 1.7 million sellers worldwide, as of Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Four years later, in 2002, eBay announced that it would buy PayPal for $1.5 Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his Bellevue garage in 1994. And perhaps the most famous garage startup story ever is that of Bill Hewlett and David Packard and the garage they rented in 1939 to start the electronics company that would later bear their names.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

billion people ) joining the eCommerce world is not an option because they lack a bank account, mobile money account or access to a credit card that can used to make purchases on eCommerce sites. In the age where news is instant and leaks are common, a genuine bit of surprising news is actually pretty hard to come by. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

According to the most recent PYMNTS/InfoScout Apple Pay Adoption Tracker , first presented at PYMNTS’ Innovation Project 2016 , more consumers are giving Apple Pay a try, but even more aren’t coming back. For others, Apple Pay seems to actually be driving them back toward cash and card payments. What could that be?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Not because he didn’t have a buyer, but because his buyer didn’t have that much cash— and McKelvey didn’t take credit cards. As we all know, the Square Starbucks deal did not cause acquirers to disappear or PayPal to rapidly fold up its tent. After many fits and starts, Square pushed into an IPO in late 2015. The Bumpy Road.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2016

Finovate and FinDEVr alums Braintree , Finicity and Twilio won recognition at the API World Awards sponsored by API World 2016. Braintree’s payment platform serves both online and mobile merchants, providing a secure payment gateway, merchant account, recurrent billing and credit card storage. Tickets are on sale now.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Just days after Paypal announced that it was redesigning its iOS and Android mobile apps. From the home screen, members can run credit simulations (courtesy of Transunion) to see how factors like reducing their overall credit card debt can positively affect their credit score. Maybe it’s the change in seasons.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

billion dollars less on iPhones in 2016 Q1 than in 2015 Q1. I’m not talking about the fact that Apple’s Chinese love fest seems to be on the rocks or that iPhone sales tanked. It’s the fact that Apple can’t give us one meaningful statistic on how *well* all of its post-Jobs initiatives are really doing. APPLE’S REVERSAL OF FORTUNE.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Thirteen years later, in 2016, American consumers now spend 46 minutes a day shopping, with women dedicating about 35 percent more of their day to retail pursuits than their male counterparts. Pop quiz on this Monday morning, so grab your coffee and look alive.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK? Are SMBs Ready For EMV?

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

Founded: 2016. As fintech plays a larger role in the financial ecosystem, companies are looking for ways to use tech to solve problems and find new opportunities in the space. One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. Visa — One Market Center. Founded: 2013. DBS Bank — DBS Asia X (DAX).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Stripe — The ‘PayPal ’ of mobile”. But unlike the relatively straightforward task of figuring out how to make a better Band-Aid, stronger pain reliever or softer facial tissue, the Uber and PayPal and Venmo wannabes face a much tougher task. How to actually become the Uber and PayPal and Venmo of their category.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2016

While the awesomeness of hailing an Uber ride is nearly universally accepted among consumers, questions about the awesomeness of how drivers are treated by Uber have swirled throughout 2016. debit card that is attached to a traditional checking and savings account. Summer is settling into its declining days, vacations are winding down.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Snapchat , according to recent reports , is having cash flow troubles. The app that got famous for its disappearing messages is looking like it will either need to raise a some capital by sometime in 2019 or run the risk of going broke, according to a note by MoffettNathanson. Nathanson went on to slash his revenue estimates for Snap Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

MCX coalition members hoped that the scheme would be attractive enough to consumers that many of them would shift away from what they were using in the store — branded plastic cards — to its mobile payments scheme. Back stateside, it was another blockbuster week and just in time for the summer blockbuster season. Need to know more?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2016 Second Update (7/28/2016). 2016 First Update (2/15/2016). For consumer hardware startups, the stats are especially brutal , with 97% of seed or crowdfunded companies eventually dying or becoming “zombies.” ” So why do so many startups flame out?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

That’s up from 50 percent in 2017 and 43 percent in 2016. Welcome to the first Monday of 2019. According to the Chinese calendar, 2019 is the “Year of the Pig” – which may not, at first blush, inspire much excitement for the 358 days ahead of us. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

And while reality has offered many fine examples to back up the expression in the 193 years since it was first coined, 2016 might just end up being the year that truth, finally and comprehensively, beats fiction’s ability to top it. We challenge a fiction writer to do better than that summary of the last six months of news. Need to know more?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Now that may not sound like a big deal or even enough to push the panic button. I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. To have and to hold from this day forward — for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health — to love and to cherish, till death us do part. Who’da thunk it?

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Fintech News

MARCH 23, 2025

Acquired by Flipkart in 2016, PhonePe quickly gained market dominance and reached unicorn status in 2018 , just three years after its inception. The move has pushed its valuation beyond USD $10 billion, also making it a decacorn. Today, as of March 2025, India is home to 27 fintech unicorns. million transactions , a 7.8%

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Finovate

MAY 23, 2025

The round was led by BlackFin Capital Partners, and featured re-investments from current investors PayPal Ventures and Seaya Ventures. Founded in 2016, YouLend launched in the UK and Ireland in 2018, entered Europe in 2022, and went live in the US the following year.

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