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Alexa voice payments, Yandex installment payments, Sears/Delta data breach
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Welcome to Friday and your PaymentsNEXT news. Today we’re featuring Amazon’s plans to introduce Alexa voice payments which should be coming soon according to industry rumors. Also, Russian payments provider Yandex.Money introduces installment payments for online buyers and Sears and Delta Airlines suffer a large data breach. Good reading ahead, so join us.
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Will Amazon enter the voice payments business soon?
Word is out that Amazon is preparing to enter the voice payments business, and that’s got to be making PayPal, Venmo and Square nervous. The Wall Street Journal now reports Amazon may add person-to-person payments to its burgeoning Alexa digital assistant and smart home devices. Read more… |
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Yandex Money launches e-commerce installment payments
Yandex.Checkout, Russia’s largest online payment services provider, launched an installment payment plan – Pay in Parts for online shoppers. E-commerce operators can now sell directly to customers and offer the option of credit or installment payments. Read more... |
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Sears, Delta Airlines payments data breached
Sears and Delta Airlines have both suffered a breach of their payments data through a systems hack of software provider [24]7.ai. As many as 100,000 customers and their personal information may be affected. Read more... |
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