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French Location Analytics Firm Mytraffic Nets $30M for Expansion
November 08, 2022

French location analytics company Mytraffic has raised 30 million euros ($30.1 million) in a Series B funding round. According to published reports Tuesday (Nov. 8), the funding will help the company expand across Europe and recruit in a number of countries. It will also help...

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Where Today’s Receipt Data Falls Short for FIs and FinTechs
November 04, 2022

“Receipt level data is the Holy Grail of data.” Wil Schobeiri, chief technology officer at Banyan, told PYMNTS that stock keeping unit (SKU)-level information — digested by merchants and banks and disseminated to consumers on their statements and banking apps — acts as the glue...

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19% of Restaurant Customers Always Dine-In Despite Digital Options
October 31, 2022

Even with huge numbers of consumers now ordering their restaurant meals via aggregators or apps, in-person dining remains a major part of the restaurant industry in the U.S. Indeed, the sheer variety of ways in which consumers place restaurant orders underscores how important it is...

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JPMorgan Sees ‘Big Data’ Becoming ‘Smart Data’ With Help of Super Apps
October 26, 2022

The digital front door is opening. Lia Cao, managing director and global co-head of corporate and eCommerce sales and solutions at J.P. Morgan Payments, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that the super app is coming — and in some cases, is already here. It depends on...

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Item-Level Data Network Banyan Gets $43M to Power Next FinTech Wave
October 20, 2022

There’s strategic gold locked in receipt level data, aka SKU level data, and the appetite for accessing those insights is attracting not just users but investors who see the possibilities. In a clear vote of confidence for both concept and company, FinTech Banyan announced on...

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Data-Driven Treasury Intelligence Eliminates ‘Spreadsheet Pandemonium’
October 20, 2022

In firms large and small, across all manner of verticals, spreadsheet pandemonium rages. Raj Seshadri, president of data and services at Mastercard, told Karen Webster that to operate effectively, companies need high-quality data, collected and analyzed in real time, shared throughout the organization. No easy...

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Data Powers New Possibilities for Logistics-as-a-Service
October 18, 2022

The middle mile and the last mile are getting a high-tech makeover. In a panel moderated by Jay Darnell, vice president, head of B2B partnerships at Visa Business, SmartHop Co-founder and CEO Guillermo Garcia and Fluid Truck Co-founder and CEO James Eberhard said data, payments...

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95% of FIs Tap Power of Receipt Data
October 17, 2022

Receipts aren’t just pieces of paper that end up at the bottom of your shopping bag. With the right information in the mix, they can foster collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and merchants to help them craft compelling loyalty programs, prevent fraud, manage expenses more...

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Biden Executive Order Aims to Protect US-EU Data Transfers
October 07, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at protecting data transfers between the United States and European Union. The order, announced Friday (Oct. 7) by the White House and U.S. Commerce Department, is designed to close out several months of uncertainty faced by...