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E-payment & Security, Technology

Consumers, businesses gravitate to faster, mobile payments

May 26, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

The research results gave the Fed an opportunity to plug the arrival of its new FedNow faster payments system, which is expected to launch services publicly in July. That real-time payments system from the central bank has been in development […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Payments fraud climbs as banks reach for joint response

May 25, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

Attendees at Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference last month were coasting through a late morning panel discussion on fraud just before lunch when one panelist’s comments stirred up the ballroom. Consolidated Edison Director Frank D’Amadeo, who leads treasury operations at […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

How AI Is Being Used for Consumer Education in Banking

May 23, 2023

Via: CMSWire

Fintech companies are using chatbots and virtual assistants to provide personalized and interactive financial guidance to customers, helping them make better financial decisions and improve their financial literacy. These AI-powered platforms, merging technology with the human touch, are increasingly becoming […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

PayPal urged to accelerate CEO search

May 16, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

PayPal has planned for months to name a new CEO to replace Dan Schulman before yearend. Now, the digital payments pioneer is coming under pressure to speed up the transition. “Some investors are getting frustrated with what they believe is […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Paysend charges into US market

May 12, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

Paysend joins a crowded field of cross-border payments competitors that are increasingly tapping new payment rails for faster cross-border services. Offering remittances services for migrants sending payments to family and friends in other countries is where most of the rivals […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Andreessen Horowitz partners spy payments play

May 3, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

Partners at AH Capital Management, the big-name venture capital firm better known as Andreessen Horowitz, see an opportunity for entrepreneurs to design payment systems in what they call “high-risk” niches, such as gaming, sports betting and cannabis. Those areas, where […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Remitly to shutter digital banking platform Passbook

February 27, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

While Passbook was gaining traction with customers, the product was outside the fintech’s core customer segment, Oppenheimer told analysts last week. “We believe it makes sense to redeploy our resources to higher returning investments, targeted at our core remittance customer,” […]


B2B

Same-day, B2B payments fuel ACH growth

February 23, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

Nacha, which governs the automated payments system, attributed the drop in direct deposits to the conclusion of federal COVID-19 pandemic relief and fewer unemployment benefit payments. Looking ahead, the organization said it is focused on encouraging the dental industry to […]


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PayPal CEO will retire at the end of 2023

February 9, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

The embattled CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, plans to retire at the end of the year, after the digital payments pioneer has struggled in recent years to meet growth goals and beat back mounting competition. Schulman said he spoke multiple […]


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PayPal to cut 7% of its workforce

January 31, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

The PayPal job cuts follow a $2-billion investment in the company last year by Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor that often pushes companies to increase profitability in the interest of boosting stock prices. The value of PayPal’s shares have […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

PayPal, Visa team on faster cross-border payments

January 13, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

PayPal’s Xoom has offered money transfer services domestically since 2020 and expanded its cross-border capabilities last year. Now, it’s speeding up the delivery of the payments with an assist from Visa’s real-time system called Visa Direct. Xoom’s debit card deposit […]


B2B

Amex acquires B2B automation company Nipendo

January 12, 2023

Via: Payments Dive

Card giant American Express said it has agreed to purchase Nipendo, an Israeli business-to-business payments automation company, but didn’t say how much it will pay for the acquisition. Nipendo, headquartered in Netanya, Israel, “will make B2B payments processes much easier […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Visa growth tapers in October, November

November 29, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

The slower growth at San Francisco, Calif.-based Visa comes as the U.S. braces for a possible recession, with consumers tightening their budgets in the face of inflation and companies cutting back on jobs and expenditures. Still, higher prices work in […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

PayPal counts on its digital app for gains

November 28, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

PayPal is counting on its digital app to boost business as it focuses more on customer engagement and less on adding new customer accounts. To that end, one new service the company is testing is a teen account for users […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Visa’s next CEO sees a world of growth

November 21, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

Visa President Ryan McInerney will not be short on growth goals when he takes over as CEO of the global card network giant Visa next year. When McInerney spoke at a recent bank conference he uttered the word “opportunity” more […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

62% of consumers now use banking apps regularly but security concerns prevail

November 18, 2022

Via: Business of Apps

Mobile banking apps revolutionised how we bank today. Some 62% of consumers now conduct most of their regular banking activities on apps. But though users admit there are plenty of benefits to using banking apps, the majority remain concerned about […]


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Visa names new CEO for next year

November 18, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

Visa CEO Al Kelly will step aside and the card network company will promote President Ryan McInerney to the chief executive role next February, the company said in a press release Thursday. Kelly will stay on at the company as […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

Jack Henry debuts P2P payments tool

October 31, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

The P2P tool addition is part of Jack Henry’s bid to keep expanding its technological capabilities and tools for its community and regional bank clients. The company introduced this tool to enable banks and credit unions to provide a safe […]


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Mastercard profit rises on consumer spending

October 28, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

Mastercard reported an increase in third-quarter earnings as the second-largest card network company benefited from its investments in the payments sector. During the company’s earnings conference call Thursday, Chief Executive Michael Miebach noted the company’s “focused execution” of Mastercard’s strategy […]


E-payment & Security, Technology

PayPal user policy sparks Republican ire

October 20, 2022

Via: Payments Dive

Republican ire is spooling up over what digital payments company PayPal called an error in the post of a user policy that threatened to debit users’ accounts if they shared ”misinformation.” A group of Republicans, including two ranking committee members, […]