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Push Payments’ Path To Digital Innovation In The Developing World

Push Payments’ Path To Digital Innovation In The Developing World
Push Payments’ Path To Digital Innovation In The Developing World
June 05, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Push payments have been a topic of conversation in the developed world for the last several years, across verticals and use cases. Riding the card...

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Visa, Western Union Team To Speed Global Payments
Visa, Western Union Team To Speed Global Payments
June 05, 2019  |  VISA

Today (June 5), Visa and Western Union struck a strategic agreement to move money between consumers focused on expedited remittances. Bill Sheley, global head of...

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Wild Cards? eGaming, Payroll, Credit, Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid
Wild Cards? eGaming, Payroll, Credit, Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid
June 05, 2019  |  Payment Methods

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only...

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Mastercard Launches Open Banking Platform To Further API Standards
Mastercard Launches Open Banking Platform To Further API Standards
June 04, 2019  |  Mastercard

Lead, follow or get out of the way — that seems to apply to the rise of Open Banking, which promises more financial services innovation, along...

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Trulioo Teams With Refinitiv To Bring 5B Consumers Into The Financial Mainstream
Trulioo Teams With Refinitiv To Bring 5B Consumers Into The Financial Mainstream
June 04, 2019  |  Financial Inclusion

Call it the curse of innovation, perhaps. It’s that tendency (seen often in payments and commerce) to always think years, or a decade or two,...

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Taking The Future Of Digital ID Verification Back To The Phone
Taking The Future Of Digital ID Verification Back To The Phone
June 04, 2019  |  Authentication

The rise of the digital economy has resulted in growing concerns about identification, not the least of which is making sure that people who try...

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How Top-Performing CUs Innovate With Data Analytics
How Top-Performing CUs Innovate With Data Analytics
June 03, 2019  |  Credit Unions

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Western Union’s Playbook For Balancing Cash And Digital Payments
Western Union’s Playbook For Balancing Cash And Digital Payments
June 03, 2019  |  Payment Methods

Despite the dreams and expectations among all kinds of people during the rise of eCommerce and digital payments, cash isn’t really going away. Sure, one...

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