payments innovation

Can PSD2 Get Past Its GDPR Problem As Deadlines Hit?
Can PSD2 Get Past Its GDPR Problem As Deadlines Hit?
March 14, 2019  |  Regulation

Ladies and gentlemen, it has finally arrived. From this day forward (March 14), businesses covered by the European Union’s (EU’s) Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) are...

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NatWest Testing Biometric Fingerprint Card Payments
NatWest Testing Biometric Fingerprint Card Payments
March 11, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

NatWest, the U.K. bank, is kicking off a test in which customers can use biometric fingerprint technology for card payments. According to a report in...

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What ATMs And Open Source Have To Do With Payments Innovation
What ATMs And Open Source Have To Do With Payments Innovation
March 07, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

It might be the case that 2019 takes shape as a watershed year for payments regulation, marked by PSD2 and GDPR. Stakeholders in the financial services...

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How Airbnb Uses Payments To Stay Competitive
How Airbnb Uses Payments To Stay Competitive
February 28, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Consumers who rent a vacation home through Airbnb must trust that the keys will be there for them upon arrival, as much as the host...

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Integrating Payments Into The Workflow — And The Workforce
Integrating Payments Into The Workflow — And The Workforce
February 05, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The workforce skews tech-savvy, younger ... and remote. The way we pay and get paid is ever-more intuitive, cued by Uber. So it is — or should be...

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SWIFT Gears Up For Trade Via Blockchain
SWIFT Gears Up For Trade Via Blockchain
January 31, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Financial messaging service SWIFT said this past week that it has fashioned a partnership with R3, a blockchain startup. The partnership will integrate the R3 platform into...

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Why 85 Pct Of Companies Want AP Automation
Why 85 Pct Of Companies Want AP Automation
January 30, 2019  |  B2B Payments

In manufacturing plants, call centers and many other workplaces, automation is the standard. However, when it comes to corporate accounting departments, automation is still the...

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Digital Lending’s $1.4T Travel Payments Plan
Digital Lending’s $1.4T Travel Payments Plan
January 29, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The family trip to Disney World, the honeymoon to Hawaii, the 25-year anniversary spent in Paris — the big trips people take aren’t just vacations...

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Samsung Adds Millions To Mobeewave’s Series B
Samsung Adds Millions To Mobeewave’s Series B
January 28, 2019  |  Mobile Payments

In November 2018, Mobeewave announced that it had closed a big Series B round. Led by NewAlpha Asset Management, Mastercard and Forestay Capital, the $16.5 million round...

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