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While quality products, appropriate pricing, and a good marketing campaign are key elements of creating, growing, and sustaining a business, customer engagement is also a necessary item on the to-do list. However, this can also be the step that takes the most time, and sometimes, business owners can opt to …
May, 2023
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25 May
BNPL Providers Could Do a Better Job Protecting Consumers, Consumer Reports Finds
Despite the increasing popularity of buy now, pay later loans, some BNPL providers could do a better job when it comes to providing consumer protections, such as disclosing fees and enabling consumers to manage their data and privacy settings, a study by Consumer Reports found. When it comes to the …
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25 May
Faster Payments Are Top of Mind for Most Consumers And Businesses
Instant payments gratification continues to take hold among businesses and consumers. New evidence of that from a couple of Federal Reserve surveys shows that 83% of businesses and 75% of consumers already use some form of faster payments. Favorable sentiment toward instant payments could increase as 66% of businesses and …
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25 May
Priority Makes Bid on Plastiq Assets And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/25/23
Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. announced it has entered into a so-called stalking-horse agreement to bid on the assets of Plastiq Inc., an 11-year-old payments provider that has entered Chapter 11 restructuring. Terms of the bid were not disclosed. Freshmart, a Puerto Rico-based grocer with seven stores, said it has chosen eGrowcery to …
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24 May
Citizens Launches Cards For the Visually Impaired
Citizens Bank has launched the Private Client World Elite Mastercard, which uses tactile notches on the side of the card to help visually impaired consumers determine the type of card they are using—credit, debit or prepaid—by touch alone. The card features different types of notches to distinguish the card type …
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24 May
U.S. Investors Are Optimistic About Bitcoin in the Face of the Coin’s Recent Travails
U.S. investment managers have grown bullish about Bitcoin’s prospects despite recent events that have roiled digital-currency markets, research released Wednesday indicates. Feeding the renewed optimism are prospects for “improved regulation” and expectations of a “recovery in valuations” for Bitcoin, according to the research, in which 30 major investment managers were …
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24 May
Green Payments Notes Growth And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/24/23
Four-year-old payments provider Green Payments said it has expanded into a new office after what it says was a “record year of portfolio and employee growth.” The company, which focuses on health care, hospitality, and automotive sales, says its portfolio grew 134% last year to a total of $1.2 billon in volume. …
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23 May
What are the Benefits of Cloud-Enabled Processing?
By Tom Byrnes, SVP, Marketing, PayiQ Cloud architecture has made complicated database computing tasks more accessible and unified for everybody. But, until recently, it’s been an open question for many whether the cloud can be a disruptive force in the world of payment processing. Most big processors that are active …
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23 May
Cantaloupe Enlists Amazon to Add Potency to Its Cloud-Based Platform
Cantaloupe Inc., a specialist in micropayments, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) to use AWS cloud services and make AWS its preferred provider to handle transaction volume flowing through Cantaloupe’s merchant network. Cantaloupe, which specializes in payments technology for vending machines and self-service marketplaces, handles …
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23 May
Eye on Biometrics: Amazon One Adds Age Verification; WeChat Adds Palm Payments
Amazon.com Inc. is adding another feature to its Amazon One palm-based identity service, and Chinese site WeChat has brought palm recognition to cameras used for facial recognition. Amazon One has added an age-verification component, Amazon said in a blog post. Launched in 2020, the technology recently expanded beyond Amazon properties …
