Inspired by Amazon’s new Prime offer, Amazon Day, CFOs and corporate cash managers are transforming their payables operations so that they pay suppliers on the same day each year. Dubbed PayDay, the aim is to streamline payables operations and eliminate the friction associated with having...
Payments has moved beyond batches to … photons. The Fed’s faster payments council now seeks to enable the fastest payments in the universe, approaching and perhaps even exceeding the speed of light. Get ready for the warp bubble.
Get ready for a commodore — the old Commodore 64, that is, a mainstay of the home computing boom of the 1980s. News from the European Union — specifically, the organization’s Committee of Turning It All Back — is that politicians and regulators from the EU’s...
Amid the excitement for Levi Strauss’ initial public offering (IPO), Kongō Gumi is eyeing a listing on the New York Stock Exchange more than 1,000 years after its founding. While plans for the construction company’s listing are not set in stone, unnamed sources have claimed...
To help curb money laundering, identity verification provider Trulioo announced on Monday (April 1) that it had opened an office in the Ozarks. The Vancouver-based company, which recently established a physical presence in Dublin, will seek to fill 40 positions in the region, the firm said...
Around the world, billions awoke in terror this morning, April Fool’s Day 2019, when they realized that Google search wasn’t working — or, at least, wasn’t working the way it once did. Search returns were presented in alphabetical order, but different search terms presented results that did not include...
Bucking the trend of the tech industry for the last decade, Microsoft has formally decided to ban April Fools’ pranks this year. In a company-wide memo, Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela told employees that, this year, they were officially sitting this one out. “I...
The last couple of years have brought a consumer, political and regulatory backlash against the privacy and data-sharing practices of big tech and social media firms. Today came a development that will surely capture of the attention of historians of the digital world of the...
