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Ann Cairns, Mastercard Executive Vice Chair, announced as Featured Speaker at PayTechWomenLive, presented by Wnet. Live, 90 minute virtual event: Nov. 5, 11:30 am ET. Interactive, small-group breakouts moderated by senior payments professionals. Visit: PayTechWomenLive.org.
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After Months of Preparation, Amazon Launches Its Palm-Payment Technology
Amazon.com Inc.’s venture in letting consumers pay with the palm of their hand officially launched Tuesday at two Amazon Go stores. But the retailing giant’s latest payment technology could face an uncertain future even as stores struggle with how to introduce contactless methods in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. …
Read More »Eye on IoT: More Wearables Gain Payment Functionality And Loop Insights Makes a Property Deal
Despite the slowdown in manufacturing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, shipments of wearable devices, which are often fitted for payments, are forecast to hit 396 million units in 2020, a 14.5% increase from 2019, says International Data Corp. During the first half of 2020, 38% of all wearable …
Read More »Contactless Is Gaining Favor Fast Among Consumers And Merchants, AmEx Data Show
Consumer demand is so strong that 81% of merchants surveyed by American Express Co. intend to make contactless payments a permanent option at the point of sale. Some 70% of merchants say their customers have asked for contactless payments, J.J. Kieley, vice president of the AmEx Payments Consulting Group, tells Digital …
Read More »Stripe Adds Customer Experience Integration And Provides a Buy Button for MailChimp
ActiveCampaign, a customer-experience automation provider, is teaming with Stripe Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. to integrate its software in the platforms of both payment providers. The integrations will enable merchants to connect their Stripe or PayPal accounts to ActiveCampaign through native integrations and use payer data to coordinate personalized customer …
Read More »In the Face of Covid-19, PayByPhone Grows Its Roster of Colleges for Its Mobile Payment App
To the extent students are returning to college campuses, payments companies are pursuing opportunities in contactless payments—even when it comes to paying for parking. PayByPhone Technologies Inc. on Thursday said that with recent additions its mobile parking app is now available at 29 North American colleges and universities. The app …
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Priority Teams With Behalf on a Merchant Financing Option
Priority Technology Holdings and its Priority Payments Systems and Priority Commercial Payments units are working with business-to-business credit provider Behalf Inc. to allow Priority clients to finance purchases at checkout through Behalf rather than through cash, check, or credit card. The move comes as many small businesses continue to contend with …
Read More »How Consumers Struggling with Covid-19’s Impact Have Paid—Or Not Paid—Their Bills
The impact of the economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic has affected payments of all sorts, but perhaps none so much as consumer bill payments. Indeed, some 56% of consumers said it was harder to pay bills because they’d lost their jobs or had sustained a reduction in income, …
Read More »Sam’s Club’s Scan & Go Pulls Up at the Fuel Pump
Sam’s Club, the warehouse-retail arm of Walmart Inc., is bringing its Scan & Go self-checkout technology to more than 500 Sam’s Club fuel stations. Called Scan & Go Fuel, the mobile-payment service will enable consumers to make contactless payments using the Sam’s Club app at 518 Sam’s Club locations by …
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