Two weeks ago, we wrote about the firm’s solid performance, with double-digit growth in the retail card business, and 7% growth in the CareCredit business unit.
@synchrony
#credit
#creditcard
#payments
Underserved U.S. immigrant populations will soon be able to sign up for a
#PrepaidCard
program offered by
@vivaentgroup
and
@alternasavings
. Mercator's Jordan Hirschfield shares the details.
"The perception is ACH and checks are free and card acceptance cost a lot of money." - Dean M. Leavitt. But is that the reality of payment acceptance for businesses? LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE -
#payments
#b2b
#paymentacceptance
@boostb2b
While cash is still king in Japan, the country has been shifting towards becoming a
#cashless
society. In fact, World Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka,
#Japan
and will be “the first world’s fair to be entirely cashless.”
Read more:
#prepaid
#payments
In 2020 the fintech industry witnessed ground-breaking changes and achieved goals that could have taken years. While the pandemic might be subsiding, the
#Fintech
industry isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
The
#metaverse
market size is estimated to be worth $1.5t by 2029. This means there may be $300b in crime-related transactions. The anonymity of transactions makes it more crime-friendly.
Read more from Matthew Leaney of
@_SilentEight
:
#cybercrime
#fraud
Small business is BIG business! According to Ginger Siegel from
@Mastercard
in the U.S. alone, there are over 30 million small businesses that employ over 58 million people. Listen to the full podcast episode here
#smallbusiness
#GDP
#businesswomen
The
#LightningNetwork
can handle potentially infinite transactions per second cheaply and efficiently while avoiding overburdening the
#blockchain
. It is still fairly new but it is also key to the success of the future of
#CryptoPayments
.
Have you head?
#Payfac
is the word.
@finix
is operating its own payment facilitation - and allowing other companies to become payfacs themselves. Mercator's Don Apgar digs into the story.
"When people make a payment, they’re not thinking about the payment itself, they’re thinking about what they’re paying for what they’re buying or the experience that the payment will enable."
@Fiserv
#payments
#RTP
#fasterpayments
#podcast
Real-time payments enable
#banks
to take back control of
#payments
from non-bank providers, meet the demands of modern consumers and businesses, and serve the greater good with real-time products made for specific use cases. Learn more from
@Fiserv
:
#P2P
and other
#digitalpayment
capabilities, like those offered in
@Zelle
, will become even more important for financial institutions looking to serve
#consumers
in during and after
#COVID19
. Here's more on why this is the case:
Tim Sloane, Chris Storbeck, and Andy Orrock discuss how the evolution of payments has created a great opportunity for a retailer and how a payment switch provider can help. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE -
#payments
#retail
#switches
@InComm
#Fraud
management is not a one-and-done effort. It requires industry participants to add layers of protection. Do this to protect against fraudulent applications. Do that to shield against
#cardholder
fraud. Try this to counteract skimming, & on & on.
Checkout our latest
#podcast
with
@wirecard
Kevin Brown. Were we discuss things like - Fifty-six percent of U.S. consumers are forecasted to transact something like $505 billion in
#mobilepayments
by 2020.
There are a lot of myths about real time payments. Luckily we sat down with Colleen Taylor from
@Mastercard
to help dispell them on a recent episode of the PaymentsJournal
#podcasts
.
#payments
#realtimepayments
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE -
Due to open banking, the payments industry is in the midst of its third major
#digital
transformation.
@Equinix
breaks down the 3 transformations and explains more about
#openbanking
in a
@paymentsjournal
podcast. Listen here ==>
While historically competitive with one another,
#fintechs
and
#banks
can work together in a way that benefits both parties.
@AvidiaBank
's Cliff Thompson explains how:
Check out a recent PaymentsJournal
#podcast
with Colleen Taylor, Sarah Grotta, and Steven Murphy discussing modernizing the payment system with real time payments. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE -
#payments
#realtimepayments
@MastercardNews
What’s causing so many Americans to reject bank
#BillPay
? Simply put, consumers across every generation perceive it as cumbersome and lacking both visibility and
#payment
options. Learn from
@BillGOPayments
how modern bill pay drives
#revenue
for
#banks
:
Change in the payments industry won't happen overnight but, for change to happen everyone in the value chain needs to participate. Colleen Taylor from
@Mastercard
discusses more on the PaymentsJournal podcast. LISTEN HERE -
#payments
#realtimepayments
FedNow Program Exec, stated: “With the launch drawing near, we urge FIs and industry partners to move full steam ahead with preparations to join the
#FedNow
Service.”
#Banks
not making plans to enable “receive” will have a rude awakening.
Read more:
#RTP
FULL PODCAST:
#ISO20022
was created to provide a common platform for sending and receiving payment data. Andrew Foulds of
@Fiserv
and Steve Murphy of
@JavelinStrategy
discuss the importance of ISO 20022, benefits, and the future of
#payments
.
This move is important for
@Equifax
who is rebuilding itself in many ways since the 2017 data breach, and a relationship with pristine
@FICO
will certainly add to their credibility.
#payments
#bigdata
#credit
#Fintech
companies see the value in making payments accessible through technological innovations. Mark Smith of
@awscloud
, John Anderson of
@Plaid
and Tim Sloane of
@MercatorAdvisor
, discuss how AWS and Plaid work to democratize
#payments
.
Listen Now:
3D Secure 2.0 is going to be a HUGE improvement for merchants and customers. On this recent PaymentsJournal podcast episode I talk with
@TAS_Group
about the friction points of 3D Secure 1.0. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE -
#payments
#3dsecure
#psd2
Customer loyalty programs have been a staple of merchant marketing efforts for quite a while. But now merchants are finding that they need to go beyond simply offering a plain vanilla version
Financial economic system in world has been growing rapidly since the past two decades. It has had a catalytic effect since the Government’s introduction and encouragement towards digitization of monetary assets & services.
#payments
#fintech
#blockchain
The growth of mobile and now
#IoT
payments means that banks need a back-end infrastructure that can flex to accommodate new payment-enabled form factors, including mobile devices,
#wearables
, smart fridges and soon,
#connectedcars
.
@netsgroup
#payments
When
@PSCUForward
's CEO is famous for not turning down a security project you know 3D Secure 2.0 is going to be a priority. We recently sat down with David H Ver Eecke to discuss. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE -
#3dsecure
#payments
#creditunion
#security
At every step along the way,
#consumers
,
#billers
, and
#FIs
expect the
#BillPay
ecosystem to meet their individual needs. But–with each passing year–those needs grow increasingly complex and the already overtaxed ecosystem struggles to keep pace.
#ESG
, or Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, is a set of values that is becoming a benchmark for companies across industries.
#SustainableFinance
has changed in perception from “nice to have” to “must-have.”
“Freedom and choice are a core part of the American way of life,” says Brian Bailey from
@Cardtronics
, “and choice of payments is, in fact, no different.” LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE -
#payments
#cash
#consumerbehavior
As faster and real-time payments start to evolve, I suspect this trend will only grow. This is a great trend for consumers and businesses on the receiving end. Let’s hope it doesn’t extend to “Daily Deducts”.
#payments
#fasterpayments
#gigeconomy
#Mobile
and
#contactless
#payments
are only possible if
#merchants
have the infrastructure in place to support them. However, many merchants have legacy solutions that aren’t able to accept these methods due to the way they’re set up.
@ingenico
Mobile phones have some great unique capabilities that banking applications should take advantage of. The question is, is your financial institution taking advantage of these opportunities? Learn more from this episode with
@ondotsys
@MercatorAdvisor
A major Same Day
#ACH
rule change is taking effect today.
@NachaOnline
has raised the per-transaction dollar limit on Same Day ACH payments to $100,000. Read more here ==>
#Contactless
payments are on the rise. In a recent PaymentsJournal
#podcast
,
@InComm
's Kia Lee explores
#QR
code adoption in the United States and what benefits this touch-free
#payment
method offers. Learn more:
Now that
@NachaOnline
has increased the per-transaction dollar limit on Same Day ACH payments, the organization is setting its sights on bringing more innovation to the
#ACH
Network. Learn what the future has in store here ==>
Last friday,
@NachaOnline
increased its per-transaction dollar limit on Same Day ACH payments.
@NachaOnline
's
@michaelherd
sat down with
@paymentsjournal
to discuss the rationale behind the changes and what this means for the industry. Listen here ==>
What are the top 3 things on Chief Data Officer's minds? We sat down with Randy Koch from ARM Insight Inc. and Tim Sloane from Mercator Advisory Group to find out. Listen to the full PaymentsJournal
#podcast
here -
Amazon was initially planning to launch its
#NFT
marketplace last year. However, the collapse of FTX delayed the launch. The launch is set for April 2023. Consumers can purchase NFTs via a
#creditcard
or
#debitcard
using their
@amazon
account.
Read more:
The global
#payments
industry has experienced stratospheric growth, with businesses shifting to
#ecommerce
as consumers’
#shopping
behavior has increased. We sat down with Brian Riley of
@MercatorAdvisor
to get his take on global payments.
Read more:
Federal authorities are investigating compliance allegations against Block. A former employee claims it processed cryptocurrency transactions for terrorist groups, and that Square performed unreported transactions in countries under sanctions.
Read more: