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Amazon’s Customer-Centric Focus
March 24, 2015

“Everybody’s talking and no one says a word,” wrote John Lennon in his popular “Nobody Told Me,” song from 1984. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Whatever Happened To The JOBS Act’s Crowdfunding Rules?
March 23, 2015

Signed into law in April 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was supposed to change the way small businesses raise capital. Title III of the Act, specifically, would democratize funding, allowing businesses to raise up to $1 million from average citizens. But three...

B2B Payments
UK SMEs Losing Hope For A Late Payment Victory
March 23, 2015

By now, it is no secret that the U.K. is in the midst of a late payments epidemic. Small businesses are speaking out against unfairly long payment terms, major corporate buyers are being pressured to improve their payment practices, and policymakers are exploring new ways...

The Backward/Forward Card Security Solution
March 23, 2015

Since the beginning of 2015, there have been over 20 major data breaches logged in the United States; Anthem, the Mandarin Hotel and Chick-fil-A are three of the biggest, but it seems that the international cybercriminal community is determined to surpass 2014 in its efforts to illegally harvest data from...

What’s In A Name? The Omnichannel Debate
March 23, 2015

What do you get when you bring eight payments, retail and commerce executives together to debate whether omnichannel is the future of retail? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Cross-border Payments
From Cows To Mobile – The Ideas That Changed Payments
March 21, 2015

While the Code of Hammurabi is best known for the “eye for an eye” proclamation, it also deserves credit for being the first recorded instance in history where money was formally recognized as a tool of civil society. While less eye-catching than the retributive justice part,...

B2B Payments
B2B Investment Tracker, March 13-20
March 20, 2015

Last week may have been quiet in the B2B investment front, but this week bucked that investment slump. Maybe it was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s fierce declaration of the dawn of Software-as-a-Service, but B2B SaaS providers certainly received attention in the form of $4.85 million...

Funding for SMEs Too Small for Banks, Too Successful for Alt-Lenders
March 20, 2015

When Ethan Senturia started his own business, he encountered a problem. As he described it, it was the curse of success: too young to get approved for a bank loan, in need of more financing than what was available through alternative lenders, and forced to...

Apple And The Cordless, Cardless Consumer
March 20, 2015

The biggest news in Apple Pay this week came courtesy of PYMNTS at this year’s Innovation Project – with big news on both the adoption and innovation fronts. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...