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Alternative Finances
Bangladesh Looks To Factoring To Bolster International Trade
September 23, 2014

Regulators in Bangladesh are looking to incorporate factoring as a financing option to help expedite the country’s import/export activities and to provide a means for its manufacturers and exporters to avoid problems associated with deferred payments from buyers. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

B2B Payments
All The News That’s Fit To Print: Alibaba Edition
September 18, 2014

With 49 percent of securities professional looking to own a piece of the world’s largest e-commerce conglomerate, Alibaba is what we are going to be talking about for the next few weeks. Some analysts are beating the crowds, and PYMNTs has organized the top 15...

B2B Payments
FTC’s 5 Concerns About Mobile Financial Services
September 16, 2014

This past summer, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began soliciting comments on mobile financial-services use. It’s goal is to learn more about how technology is affecting consumer opportunities and challenges. In their comments to the bureau, FTC staff identified its five mobile concerns and what...

Controversial
Home Depot Cyberthieves Took Advantage of Security Upgrade Delays
September 15, 2014

For those corporate employees who get frustrated by the slowness of decisions and the glacial pace of deployments, take comfort in the fact that this slowness was a gift for cyberthieves who wanted to—and successfully did—attack Home Depot. The attackers literally took advantage of the...

B2B Payments
Are B2B Payments Coming To Amazon India?
September 15, 2014

Earlier this year, Amazon.com’s AmazonSupply, the online marketplace’s B2B operation that’s in beta, began exploring the U.S. wholesale and distribution market. It may be about to do the same in India. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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It is time to (Re)-invent Digital Identity
September 12, 2014

Nowadays, barely a week goes by where news does not emerge of another major cyber attack, putting at risk consumer information. For more than a decade, financial institutions and businesses have invested significantly to protect personally identifiable information (PII). Companies take data protection very seriously,...

B2B Payments
B2B Distributor Offering Merchants A New Payment Portal
September 11, 2014

McAllister Industries, a B2B distributor of prepaid phone cards to retailers, plans soon to publicly launch Redde Pay, providing its customers with an online-payments portal that will help them expand what they can sell to include other services, including bill payment, prepaid energy, prepaid wireless,...

B2B Payments
What One UK Agency Spends Using P-Cards
September 10, 2014

The United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, whose purpose is to support the country’s interests overseas and is responsible for safeguarding the UK’s national security, has lots of acquisition needs. To simplify that process and to keep track of purchases more efficiently, it uses corporate...

Commentary
Experiment To Find The Mobile Payment Value
September 10, 2014

We all know that for mobile payments to ignite, consumers and merchants have to see the value. But what MPD Managing Director, John Caron saw yesterday didn’t blow him away. If it’s all about payments, then he’s not convinced it’s enough to get anyone to...