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Las Vegas Casinos Rake in $8.3 Billion and Lean Into High Rollers
May 29, 2023

Las Vegas casinos are focusing on upscale gamblers — and making a record amount of revenue. The amount of gambling revenue brought in by casinos on the Las Vegas Strip hit a record total of nearly $8.3 billion in 2022 — a total nearly 25%...

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FICO Adds Transactional Analytics to Applied Intelligence Platform
May 17, 2023

FICO has added transactional analytics to its platform to help enterprises better understand their customers. That is one of 19 enhancements the firm has made to its applied intelligence platform, FICO Platform, the company said in a Wednesday (May 17) press release. “FICO Platform is uniquely positioned to...

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Employers Drive Retention With Catering Amid Return to On-Site Work
April 14, 2023

With the return to on-site work, corporate catering is gaining steam. In an interview with PYMNTS, Diane Swint, chief revenue officer at business catering firm ezCater, noted that, even in this inflationary period, demand has not decreased. In fact, order value has grown, with workplaces...

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Unit4 Launches Marketplace of Tools for its ERP Customers
January 17, 2023

Unit4 has launched a marketplace featuring tools that can be added to its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. The new Unit4 Marketplace showcases apps from the company’s independent software vendor (ISV), reseller and service partners and makes it easy for its ERP customers to find...

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Digital Transformation Tools Turn Treasury Teams Into Strategic Business Advisers
December 16, 2022

Treasury departments are grappling with dynamic interest rates, tight labor markets and supply chain shocks. Josh Comer, head of global liquidity solutions for commercial banking at J.P. Morgan, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that while the pandemic and geopolitical risks ushered in a season of unpredictability...

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Strong Dollar Makes UK Businesses Vulnerable to Takeovers
October 02, 2022

A leader in London’s finance world has publicly expressed concern that British companies are vulnerable to being taken over by foreign entities taking advantage of both a weak British pound and general weakness in equity markets. Ross Mitchinson, co-chief executive of British brokerage and investment...

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NCR Splitting Into 2 Distinct Companies
September 16, 2022

Bank, retail and restaurant enterprise technology provider NCR is splitting into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one focused exclusively on ATMs and the other targeting online commerce. The NCR Board of Directors unanimously approved the plan, which will be “structured in a tax-free manner”...

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Payment Tech’s New Mantra: ‘Stay Scared but Calm’
July 19, 2022

“Stay scared — but stay calm,” too. Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards made the observation to PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that tech companies of all sizes and across all verticals — but especially in payments — face an uncertain operating environment that demands a startup’s mentality,...

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Turkish FinTechs See Growing Business Opportunities in Neighboring Europe
July 06, 2022

Turkey has always been a bridge between continents, but while most of the country’s landmass is located on the Asian side of the continental divide, Turkish firms look more towards Europe for business opportunities, leveraging tariff-free trade deals inked with the European Union and the...