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Visa On Capturing The Digital Payments Opportunity In Latin America

PYMNTS

The last few years, he said, have changed the game in terms of Visa’s ability to give digital payments a nudge by giving acquirers and issuers an ability to reach both consumers and merchants without the need of either a card on one side of the transaction, or a terminal on the other. Tokens In The Cloud.

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Instant Payments Mean Real-Time Payments Fraud

FICO

In the past year, three major economies — the Eurozone, the USA and Australia — have gone live with real-time payments schemes, Canada will follow in 2019 and many other countries are on the road to implementing real-time schemes. When this kind of fraud takes advantage of an instant and irrevocable payment mechanism, losses will sky rocket.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

PYMNTS

Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the move to instant is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with payments, opening up new worlds of risk and reward. Rarely do consumers and businesses agree on anything as much as they have on instant. FinTechs led this charge and fueled much of the innovation.

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How ‘Me2Me’ Became FinServ’s New ‘Sticky’

PYMNTS

Online lenders are experts at underwriting, Edwards noted, but generally aren’t experts in payment card industry (PCI)-compliant payments. Once upon a (very recent) time, if customers needed financial services of any kind, they went to their bank. And that was by design, as Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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Sleepless In Payments

PYMNTS

Sleep experts contend that people just sleep less than they used to, maybe even as much as 20 percent less than even a few decades ago. That is unless you live in Melbourne, Australia, where things seem pretty chill. Those guys and gals sleep the most of anyone in the world – about six and a half hours a night – and pretty peacefully.