Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Kyriba Payments Network Tackles CFO Mandate
February 19, 2020

Global cloud treasury and finance firm Kyriba has introduced the Kyriba Payments Network to deal with the developing chief financial officer (CFO) mandate to streamline payments and fight payments fraud, the company said in a press release on Wednesday (Feb. 19). Kyriba’s new payments network...

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Saudi Arabia Makes Digital Push To Lessen Cash Reliance
February 18, 2020

Saudi Payments, a state-owned payments apparatus, has partnered with stc pay, another Saudi Arabia payments company, to grow the breadth of its mobile wallet, and potentially partner on future digital projects, according to a report. stc pay, a Saudi Telecom Company subsidiary, said the deal would...

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Unbundling The Travel Bundle
January 30, 2020

The sharing economy is undergoing a sea change due to Generation Z’s coming of age. Experts expect this generation, which heavily favors the sharing and gig economies, to account for 40 percent of all global shoppers by the end of 2020. Businesses are struggling to...

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French FinTech Bankin’ Enables Payments Via Bank Transfers
January 29, 2020

A French banking startup called Bankin’ has introduced Bridge Pay, an application programming interface (API) that will let people make payments using bank transfers, according to a report by TechCrunch. Right now, the Bridge Pay API works with 12 major banks in France, which is...

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Italian Postal Service Targets SMBs With QR Code Payments
January 24, 2020

Italian postal service Poste Italiane is introducing a new payments technology in an effort to attract more domestic small businesses, according to a report by Reuters. Marco Siracusano, the head of digital payment company PostePay, shared the news on Friday (Jan. 24). Poste Italiane’s new...

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Disbursements In The Time Of Instant Money
January 24, 2020

Instant money is reinventing the world of payments, except where paper checks inexplicably hang on as coin of the realm. Healthcare reimbursements are a prime example of an important business function stuck in a paper past. Dine-in restaurants are another sector that has merely snacked...

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EMVCo: Majority Of Payment Cards (8.2B) Are Chip-Enabled
January 22, 2020

More than 8.2 billion chip-enabled consumer cards — credit and debit — are now in use across the world, according to EMVCo, the industry standard organization. Globally, more than 75 percent of all cards are now enabled with EMV chip technology. In development for over...

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Rapid Settlements To The SMB Rescue
January 21, 2020

The overwhelming majority of U.S. businesses are small businesses — close to 90 percent of U.S. companies employ fewer than 20 people. Of those, four in 10 generate less than $100,000 in annual revenue. We’re talking about roughly 29 million small companies that collectively represent...

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Venmo Launches Animated Custom Stickers For App Users
January 21, 2020

As of today (Jan. 21), users of cash-sending app Venmo will have the ability to send animated custom stickers through the app’s newsfeed. The stickers include an animated coin jar with a heart and the words “With Love,” a cartoon figure running on a spinning...