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PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
August 04, 2014

There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing what in the retail and commercial payments and financial services sectors. Get the Full Story...

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CFPB Weighs In (Again) On Overdraft-Protection Policies
August 04, 2014

Issuer overdraft protections over the past few years have grown in notoriety, with many issuers early on adding the fee-based service to customer accounts without their knowledge or through communications that were unclear or hidden in lengthy documents. In 2010, the Federal Reserve banned depository...

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Court Fights To Rumored M&A: Welcome to Earnings Season Week 2
August 02, 2014

From the latest on a Justice Department’s antitrust case against a major card network to a B2B fleet card processor’s merger-and-acquisition ambitions, we learned a lot this week from payments company quarterly earnings. To bring it all together, PYMNTS.com has summarized the quarterly earnings covered...

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Can Anything Slow MasterCard’s Roll?
August 01, 2014

MasterCard showed sizable second-quarter gains, with net revenue up 13 percent driven by significant transaction growth on both the consumer and commercial credit side. It has plans to roll out MasterPass over the next few years to the markets that drive 75 percent of its...

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CEO: Fleetcor ‘Quite Active’ in M&A Talks
August 01, 2014

Fleetcor CEO Ronald Clark acknowledged to analysts on July 31 that that the company is in active merger-and-acquisition talks, some of which are in the “late innings.” He declined to go into any specifics, however, including whether discussions are underway to acquire rival Comdata, as...

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Are Fleet Payments Being Scammed?
August 01, 2014

An important part of fleet management is ensuring that the recorded mileage is actually the mileage that was driven for a delivery. This ensures that all parties involved are paid properly and that the fleet management firm’s invoices remain accurate. But what happens when there...

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Turning B2B Payments On Its Ear
August 01, 2014

Taulia has just raised $27 million with a simple goal—fixing the status quo in buyer-supplier payments so that it’s no longer out of date, out of touch and bad for basically everyone involved. PYMNTS.com caught up with Taulia’s CMO Joe Hyland to learn how this...

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Bitcoin Tracker | Week 34
August 01, 2014

As former Square COO Keith Rabois launches one more “stellar” currency, Kanye West wins a lawsuit that shutters Coinye Bitcoin. Life in the land of the bitcoins and crypto-currencies is never dull.

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August 01, 2014

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