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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.
Payments Source
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
In the push to get millions of cash-based micro- and small-business merchants to go digital, the two largest card networks are getting a boost from contactless payments' global surge.
Fintech Finance
DECEMBER 17, 2024
annually from 2025-2030, further strengthen the digital payment landscape. Dung Dang, Visa Country Manager of Vietnam and Laos, said: “Vietnam’s digital payments landscape is experiencing tremendous momentum. We’re seeing significant increases in spending per active card, overseas spending, and contactless payments.
Finovate
JANUARY 14, 2025
Texas-based digital banking solutions provider Alkami Technology is bringing Push Provisioning to NASA Federal Credit Union (NASA FCU). “I truly believe that our card management suite is one of the best,” NASA FCU digital banking manager Liam Petraska said.
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Payments Source
JUNE 2, 2019
While major card issuers such as Chase and Wells Fargo roll out NFC-enabled credit and debit cards incrementally, Bank of America is taking much more aggressive approach.
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Stax
MAY 6, 2025
Credit cards are a staple in the wallets of consumers today, and they will undoubtedly be a payment method of choice for years to come, particularly as the adoption of mobile and contactless payments continues to grow. In fact, ResearchAndMarkets.com forecasts the global credit card payment market to grow to $762.16
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 18, 2021
Contactless payments have surged in popularity over the past year, fueled by both an increased reliance on digital banking as well as the effort to contain COVID-19’s spread by preventing consumers and workers from having to touch point of sale (POS) system surfaces or handle cash.
PYMNTS
MAY 22, 2019
We are talking about consumer acceptance of contactless payments in the U.S. specifically, the use of such payments for mass transit in New York City. transit agency to implement contactless payments using Visa’s global transit framework. The ongoing push toward more contactless payments in the U.S.
Clearly Payments
MARCH 31, 2025
81% of small businesses accept credit and debit cards, while 37% accept digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. Cash remains an essential payment method for many SMBs, with 36.4% of those with 20 to 99 employees accepted cash payments. In the U.S., of total sales still being cash-based.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Safety-minded consumers the world over can now be seen tapping contactless cards, scanning QR codes or utilizing voice ordering technologies to make purchases without potentially putting themselves or others at risk of contracting the virus. The Beyond The Card: Toward The Cardless And Contactless Future report, a PYMNTS and i2c Inc.
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Cardfellow
MAY 19, 2025
Some credit card machine companies also provide merchant accounts, while others are solely equipment manufacturers. This article is specifically about credit card machine companies, not the machines themselves. Well take a look at why that matters and give a rundown of the major equipment providers in the United States.
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Stax
APRIL 8, 2025
For many small business owners, credit card processing fees may seem like a hefty price to pay for providing convenience to customers. Even if you consider them to be a cost of doing business, credit card fees can quickly eat away at your already slim profit margins. Following are the key entities involved in credit card processing.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 12, 2019
When Visa launched a contactless payments pilot with New York’s Mass Transit Authority (MTA) seven months ago, the company started small, and with modest goals. This “public pilot” made contactless payments available on a few train lines, and only at 16 stations, including Grand Central Station and Union Station.
Clearly Payments
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Contactless payments market has been growing quickly. As digital infrastructure continues to advance, the ease and speed of contactless transactions are becoming increasingly attractive to consumers and businesses. What are Contactless Payments? Here’s a breakdown of each type and its growing significance: 1.
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. Pre-authorisation : Once plugged in, the Verifone UX700 payment device at the station prompts for payment.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 1, 2019
From barter, to cash, to eCommerce, and now, to contactless payments – even those enabled by voice command. The steady drumbeat of tech has brought purchasing from bills and coins to cards and contactless payments – done across all manner of devices and through pushes, taps, swipes and waves, at any time.
PYMNTS
MAY 27, 2020
To that end, said Matt Good , senior vice president and general manager of Elan Advisory Services , the shift to contactless payments is well underway — and the stage is being set for mobile wallets to gain a much wider embrace. Merchants, he said, “need to make sure they not only accept credit cards but also contactless payments.”.
Fintech News
AUGUST 26, 2024
As digital wallets evolve from simple payment tools to comprehensive financial ecosystems, they’re writing a new chapter in the story of money – one that’s distinctly Asian in its origin but global in its implications. With global digital wallet payments projected to reach US$19.6
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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. Experts at Aevi , the in-person payment orchestration firm, share their key takeaways, lessons learned, and perspectives on the trends shaping the future of paytech.
The Payments Association
MARCH 19, 2025
CEO Linda Yaccarino framed the move as a leap forward, but the real story is bigger: tech giants are no longer just facilitating payments, theyre actively reshaping the financial industry. Some people might find this unexpected, but as digital wallets become more common, it makes sense for companies involved in payments to embrace them.
PYMNTS
JULY 7, 2020
Fernando Souza , vice president at payments platform CyberSource , a Visa solution, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that such fears have public transit systems around the world looking at moving to EMV contactless payments and away from cash, paper tickets and closed-loop, card-based systems.
PYMNTS
APRIL 2, 2019
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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FICO
APRIL 13, 2022
The pandemic payments trade-off . Contactless payments have rocketed as the risk of spreading disease by touching money and payment terminals saw the world's consumers adopt a 'no-touch', socially distanced approach to transacting. For consumers, contactless payments have given them convenience, ease and security.
Fintech Finance
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Card payments dominate the Nordic payment landscape, with 90 percent of shoppers using them for contactless payments either daily or once a week. Cards dominate but mobile payments are rising 76 percent of Nordic consumers use some form of mobile payment in physical sales locations.
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.
Fintech Finance
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Fingerprint Cards AB (STO: FING B) and Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced SECORA Pay Bio, an all-in-one biometric payment card solution that complies with Visa and Mastercard specifications. This will lead to a much simpler biometric payment card manufacturing process.
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Fintech Finance
AUGUST 28, 2024
To enhance its conventional and Islamic banking applications with digital payment capabilities, BankDhofar has implemented the Entrust Digital Card Solution for Tap to Pay services and tokenization enablement – making BankDhofar one of the first banks in Oman to enable Tap to Pay services to its customers.
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Clearly Payments
MARCH 4, 2025
Whether you run a retail store, an e-commerce business, or a service-based company, the costs of accepting credit and debit cards add up quickly. However, one small business managed to save $10,000 a year on payment processing without sacrificing customer convenience. Here’s how they did it.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Seven years ago, when Visa first started working on bringing contactless payments to London’s Mass Transit system, the landscape for tap and go cards looked very different. In Europe, contactless card-based payments have come to dominate face-to-face payments. “In And while the progress in the U.S.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Now comes the work of embedding touchless payments anywhere and everywhere people might want them. In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. In a word: no. Touchless is here to stay.
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PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The days of consumers at the local coffee shop or retailer queuing up the register, inserting cards and punching in PINs are likely in the rearview mirror. The rise of contactless payments is being driven by, and in turn is also driving a pivot away from, hardware – specifically the dedicated terminals at checkout – and toward SoftPOS.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 21, 2020
For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. Morgan is focused on enabling payments for the millions of small businesses that are the lifeblood of Main Streets across the U.S. – Chase has also said that its new SMB offering will enable firms to take card payments within minutes.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 15, 2021
These codes are particularly useful when it comes to contactless payments, as they allow funds to be instantly transferred through a simple printout on restaurant bills or checkout counters. The year 2020 was a game-changer for QR codes, with high demand for safer, more convenient contactless payments fueling their growth.
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As digital payments become more readily available, in 2024, only 8% of adults report that they still use cash and coins “all of the time,” according to new NatWest data. Indeed, 76% of Brits who favour digital payments still carry cash for emergencies, with 48% doing so often or always.
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PYMNTS
MAY 13, 2020
Contactless has existed for a long time, but consumers were slow to adopt, mostly because they didn’t have much of a compelling reason to do something differently — their cards worked fine. For example, within days of restaurants shutting down, we had pushed out new technology designed to help,” said Tempesta.
Stax
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
That left FIs scrambling to “rapidly figure out how to get that same emotional and engagement outcome when the possibility of face-to-face is virtually nonexistent,” Randy Piatt , head of product solutions at card technology firm Ondot Systems , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Simple: Start with the cards.
PYMNTS
MAY 6, 2020
The appeal of contactless payments has skyrocketed since the pandemic hit across the globe. Payment network giants such as Visa and Mastercard said in their most recent earnings reports that contactless payments , especially in face-to-face transactions, surged by double digits year over year.
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PYMNTS
JULY 2, 2020
The PYMNTS Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations, done in collaboration with Ekata , examines rapidly changing developments in digital payments at a time when cybercrime — and identity scams particularly — are going hard on legitimate businesses. especially when it comes to enabling seamless payment experiences.”.
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PYMNTS
MAY 16, 2017
Just in time for the summer travel season, Mastercard has announced a series of partnerships in over 80 cities worldwide, which will enable card carriers to tap to pay for public transit. The move comes as part of a broader movement by the payment company to push the private sector to build smarter, more connected cities worldwide.
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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.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 15, 2021
Digital greeting card and gifting company Givingli has chosen Blackhawk Network to provide its app users with digital gift card selections. Blackhawk helped us grow our business and is continuing to help us push the envelope for superior digital gifting capabilities.”. 14) announcement. “We
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PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
As to what lies ahead for the digital CX, Vaughn said we’re headed toward greater adoption of card-on-file transactions, and the use of digital wallets to enable those transactions. The trend, after all, is toward contactless transactions. “It The big push had been around transitioning everybody to EMV,” he remarked.
PYMNTS
JUNE 6, 2019
has been slower to adopt contactless payments than other parts of the world, Europe in particular. According to payment gateway NMI, just 3 percent of payments in the U.S. don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. However, the U.S. In the U.S.,
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