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B2B Payments
Is Technology Changing Treasury Management Systems?
May 22, 2014

According to one automotive supplier, the answer is yes. By creating a centralized treasury system, ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) was able to create a smooth process that handled its cash management, including in-house banking; interest rate and FX risk management.

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Bitnet Launches As “New” Kind of Bitcoin Rails
May 20, 2014

What do a couple of ex-Visa/CyberSource guys see in bitcoin? Well, plenty, which is why they've launched Bitnet today. Bitnet will act as a third party mediator in vendor-consumer bitcoin transactions, taking what CEO John McDonnell says is the "mystery and risk" out of bitcoin...

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Consumers Pay More When They Pay With Bitcoin
May 20, 2014

People who wanted to buy really bad stuff probably didn’t mind paying a premium to use bitcoin to do it. But, will the regular old mainstream consumer be as willing to pay more than the face value of the goods they are purchasing just to...

Alternative Finances
PYMNTS Innovator Spotlight: Pazien’s Push To Be The Payments Ecosystem’s Matchmaker
May 16, 2014

Payments is full of good ideas. So many good ideas that it can some times be hard to keep track. We want to help, with a weekly spotlight on who's bringing new ideas, fresh insight and singular vision to the ecosystem. This week we caught...

Alternative Finances
MIT On its Way to Become First Bitcoin Ecosystem on the Planet
May 14, 2014

The college will distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall.

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Point And Click With No Schtick
May 13, 2014

XX Startups promise to make payments life a breeze. EMV. eCommerce. OpenStack. All at the click of a mouse.

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Consumers Get Back Into Credit
May 12, 2014

The Fed released a new report last week that shows an uptick in credit card applications for just about all domestic banks. But which consumer groups are getting their credit groove on (or want to?).

B2B Payments
New PayPal Template Helps Businesses Keep Track Of Online Invoices And Shipments
May 12, 2014

Nothing worse and less organized than a cluttered desk full of company invoices and shipping data from online orders. Microsoft has created a PayPal invoicing template that gets rid of the mess by enabling companies to digitally store and keep track of orders and support...

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LevelUp Spills The Beans on What’s Next
May 10, 2014

The mobile commerce platform LevelUp made news that it has grown its staff by 15 percent, moved into brand new offices in Boston and has big plans for what it wants to do next. If you want in on the scoop (and to watch fun...