Search results for "travel"
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174Gig EconomyHow kimkim Uses Faster Payments To Win Gig Worker Loyalty
January 22, 2020Gig workers will make up a full half of the American workforce by 2028, responsible for creating online content, designing webpages and...
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216RetailTrust And Speed Light A New Path To Omnichannel Retail
January 22, 2020For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining...
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317Security & FraudTourism Data Hack Leads Greek Banks To Cancel Thousands Of Their Cards
January 22, 2020All four of Greece’s main banking institutions enacted security protocols after a data breach, and consequently cancelled 15,000 consumer cards, according to...
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476InternationalTravel Stocks Drop Amid Coronavirus Concerns
January 21, 2020Less than a month ago, the outbreak of a new virus in the city of Wuhan centered on a cluster of consumers...
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825InvestmentsNewly Funded Flutterwave Becomes WorldPay’s First African Partner
January 21, 2020Silicon Valley and African FinTech startup Flutterwave closed a $35 million fundraising round and announced partnerships with WorldPay and Visa as it...
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782Travel PaymentsAmid Innovation And Disruption, Travel And T&E Strive Toward An Omnichannel Ideal
January 21, 2020The first part of 2020 has brought some significant activity in the world of travel — activity that could, in the coming months...
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972RidesharingNew Uber Pilot Signals Business Model Shift In CA
January 21, 2020With the newest of many initiatives to reportedly provide drivers with greater independence as a reaction to the state’s new gig economy...
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1.5KRestaurant innovationHow UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators
January 21, 2020One of the biggest questions that promises to play out in the larger world of restaurants — whether quick-service operations or others...
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1.4KDisbursementsHow Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
January 21, 2020More than 90 percent of U.S. consumers now prefer to receive digital payments over paper checks. Cash and checks persist as the...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsDBS Introduces QR Code Product For B2B Payments
January 20, 2020Singapore-based financial services company DBS has launched an industry-first, QR code-based solution for B2B payments and collections, the company announced on Monday...
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1.2KInternationalMexican President Considers Raffling Off $130M Luxury Jet
January 20, 2020One might assume that a luxury jet, particularly one with a large “presidential suite” and private bath facilities, wouldn’t be a hard...
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3.3KRetailHow ‘Contact Us’ And The Kardashians Ignited Afterpay In The US
January 20, 2020Never underestimate the value of the “Contact Us” form that every merchant and service provider places somewhere on its website — because...
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1.5KSizzle/FizzleNew Year, New Mergers Sizzle For Payments Companies
January 17, 2020It’s too early into the new year to definitively call a trend. But then again, only two weeks into 2020, mergers and...
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2.0KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart-Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Amazon’s Big Brand Woes And Walmart’s Robotics Push
January 17, 2020There was a lot of movement this week in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck – in all directions. Both racers...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsMerger Combines Six T&E, AP Firms To Form Emburse
January 16, 2020Six corporate travel expense management and accounts payable (AP) solution providers are combining into a single company to form Emburse, according to...
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1.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFar Point Acquisition Merges With Global Blue In $2.6B Deal
January 16, 2020Virginia-based FinTech firm Far Point closed a $2.6 billion merger deal with Switzerland’s tourism shopping tax refund company Global Blue, earning it...
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2.2KAcquiringGlobal Blue Acquisition Capitalizes On Consumer X-Border Spend
January 16, 2020New day, new multi-billion-dollar deal within the payments space. To that end, Far Point Acquisition – which operates as a “blank check”...
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2.2KSecurity & FraudDozens Of US Firms Had Same Security Flaw As Travelex
January 16, 2020The vulnerability that allowed Travelex to be attacked by hackers has existed at many other companies and institutions in the U.S., according...
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2.5KTravel PaymentsDoes Hipmunk’s Demise Signal Larger Changes In Travel?
January 16, 2020As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups —...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsSAP Concur Shutters Travel Search Site Hipmunk
January 15, 2020Less than three years after acquiring travel search startup Hipmunk, SAP Concur has announced that it will shutter both the consumer- and corporate-facing...
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2.6KRetailSettling Into Sofas On Subscription
January 15, 2020Millennial consumers are a mobile group – according to data analysis by FiveThirtyEight, the average millennial makes 12 moves between moving out of their...
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1.4KRetailCatering To Millennial And Gen Z Travelers With Digital Innovation
January 15, 2020Consumers have always wanted to explore and see the world, but they have had a constant need for comfortable transportation as well...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsNY Labor Department Finds Payroll Card Regulation Victory
January 15, 2020Payroll cards have faced quite a bit of controversy in recent years. While the tool can bridge under-banked employees to a digital,...
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1.7KDeliveryAmazon-FedEx Standoff Comes To An End
January 14, 2020Amazon has lifted its ban on FedEx Ground as a shipping option for third-party merchants, according to a report by The Wall...
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1.7KTravel PaymentsEuropean Travel Booking App Omio Arrives In US, Canada
January 14, 2020Berlin-based travel aggregator app Omio is rolling out in the U.S. and Canada as part of a global expansion effort, the company...
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1.1KRetailCrafting eSpecialty Food Boxes For Avid Home Cooks
January 14, 2020Before Ben Simon began sending handpicked pantry essentials and delicacies from around the world to his customers with his eponymous Ben to Table boxes,...
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2.9KTravel PaymentsTravel Meets Connected Commerce
January 14, 2020By 2021 – about a year from now – over 20 percent of all payments globally will be made with a mobile...
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3.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVisa To Acquire Plaid For $5.3B
January 13, 2020Visa has signed a deal to purchase FinTech firm Plaid for $5.3 billion, according to a report. Plaid, which was launched in...
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2.1KInvestmentsToursByLocals Gets $25M To Match Travelers With Guides
January 13, 2020The tours and experiences market is rapidly growing, and analysts predict that it will be worth $183 billion in 2020. One particular...
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2.4KSecurity & FraudTravelex Systems Back Online; Customers Receive Refunds
January 13, 2020Foreign exchange company Travelex is back online with some of its electronic services after its system was brought down by hackers nearly two...
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2.4KGlobal PaymentsMoneyGram Teams With EbixCash To Bring Transfers To India
January 13, 2020Payments solutions firm EbixCash is bringing cash card solutions to India with a MoneyGram partnership, MoneyGram announced on Monday (Jan. 13). EbixCash,...
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1.9KCommerce ConnectedDeep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover
January 13, 2020Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. They are old...
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1.9KRegulationEU Regulators Expand Scrutiny On Data Practices – And Bots
January 13, 2020It’s a new year, and in Europe, an expansion of scrutiny and laws governing data sharing. The dawn of 2020 brought a...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsThe B2B Payments Fraud Threat Of Internal Employees
January 13, 2020It was a difficult week for businesses getting hit with cyberattacks, with foreign currency company Travelex among the most high-profile of recent...
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5.1KeCommerceEmbedding Insurance At The Point Of Sale
January 13, 2020Insurance is changing with the rise of eCommerce, as well as with the support of ever-expanding data sets and other parts of...
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5.4KSecurity & FraudTravelex Checking Employees’ Computers For Signs Of Ransomware
January 11, 2020Some employees of Travelex, a company that was recently hit with a ransomware attack, were forced to hand over their laptops to...
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2.8KNewsPayPal Deal, Connected Economy And Cyberwar Top Week’s News
January 10, 2020The first full work week of the new decade brought a gusher of payments and commerce news, and this latest edition of...
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2.3KSecurity & FraudThe Troubling Ripple Effects Of The Travelex FX Hack
January 10, 2020It might make sense that as commerce goes ever global, and as banks do an increasing volume of business cross-border, that the...
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1.8KStartupsAlibaba-Backed Chinese Social Media Startup Seeks $6B Valuation
January 10, 2020Chinese eCommerce and social media startup Xiaohongshu, also known as “Little Red Book,” wants to raise funds at a $6 billion valuation,...
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1.3KToday In DataReaching Millennial Travelers With Payments Technology
January 10, 2020Hotels, airlines and homesharing platforms need strategies to satisfy the travel needs of four generations of jetsetters, who each have different booking...
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1.5KCommerce ConnectedHomesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers
January 10, 2020With millennial travel spend expected to reach $1.4 trillion in 2020, hotels and home-sharing platforms are clamoring to win their business. But...
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1.2KRidesharingGermany’s FlixMobility Reports 37 Pct Boost In Transport App Users
January 10, 2020FlixMobility, a German transport app, on Thursday reported a 37% increase in passenger travel in 2019. The company, with an app similar...
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1.6KSecurity & FraudICO Fines Dixons Carphone £500K After Breach Affects 14M Consumers
January 10, 2020Dixons Carphone is staring down the barrel of a £500,000 (about $650,000) fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office over an incident of...
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1.9KFacebookZuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
January 10, 2020Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is excited about augmented reality tech, which he thinks can address a number of social problems. Zuckerberg, in...
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1.9KInvestmentsEquinox Seeks Cash Infusion To Build Out Digital Platform
January 10, 2020Luxury fitness company Equinox seeks additional financial support as it maneuvers to expand its online platform. The SoulCycle majority owner is currently...
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2.3KSecurity & FraudTravelex Attack Forces Shutdown Of Samsung Pay’s Cross-Border Transfers
January 09, 2020A New Year’s Eve ransomware attack on Travelex continued to affect global businesses and customers today, including multiple Samsung Pay users, according...
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2.6KInternationalWeChat Pay Service Simplifies Cross-Border Tuition For Chinese Students
January 09, 2020Tencent’s WeChat Pay has introduced a payment service aimed at Chinese students who want to pay their tuition fees at universities in...
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2.3KNewsTop News in Payments: Uber Halts Upfront Pricing in CA; Amex Cleared To Operate In China
January 09, 2020In today’s top news, Uber drops upfront pricing in California in response to the state’s new gig economy law, and the central...
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3.3KSecurity & FraudTravelex Attack Forces UK Banks To Halt Foreign Currency Service
January 09, 2020Lenders including Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Virgin Money had to stop foreign currency services after exchange provider Travelex was...
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2.3KGig EconomyCalifornia Gig Decree Prompts Uber To Halt Upfront Pricing
January 09, 2020Uber is dropping upfront pricing in favor of estimates in response to the California gig economy law that took effect Jan 1....
