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B2B Payments
How To Make Government Payments Work
September 15, 2014

Some 13 state agencies operating Women, Infants and Children (WIC) benefit programs have implemented electronic benefits transfer (EBT) initiatives to improve the efficiency of funds distribution. However, many unknowns remain concerning the impact EBT processes have on the various stakeholders, including the agencies, their EBT...

Mobile
Amex, China Mobile, Make Mobile Payments Move
September 15, 2014

With soaring mobile purchases in China as a backdrop, American Express and China Mobile (China’s largest telecom) to jointly support an NFC mobile payment system Hebao, which had previously been known simply as Phone Wallet. According to a report in Want China Times, the service...

B2B Payments
Putting Suppliers In The Buyer Value Chain
September 15, 2014

More and more food, grocery and consumer-goods retailers are finding success in using online channels to grow sales, and many are turning to their suppliers for help in developing mulitichannel initiatives. Many such merchants, however, still have much work to do to maximize their online...

Apple Pay
Why Walmart Said No To Apple Pay
September 15, 2014

Given that Walmart’s own mobile payment plan—MCX, now branded as CurrentC—has no plans to go live nationally until next year, the world’s largest retail chain will not initially support Apple Pay, which is accepted to start accepting payments next month. But the anti-interchange mode of...

Apple Pay Recommends Six Processors—And PayPal’s Not One Of Them
September 15, 2014

On the one hand, Apple and PayPal have been partners for almost a decade, notes ReadWrite, going all of the way to the early iTunes Music Store days. But given that PayPal has been actively pushing its own mobile payment app as a retail in-store...

Hmmm
L’Oréal’s Supply Chain Make-Over
September 15, 2014

French cosmetics manufacturer L’Oréal has finally finished off a massive redesign of its corporate supply chain with one simple goal in mind—getting better data about both its buyer and consumer relationships.  Simple goals have a way of becoming very complicated in execution and the end-to-end...

Company Spotlight
Taxis Call A Truce In NYC, Sort Of
September 15, 2014

New York City’s two competing systems to pay for cab rides by mobile app have struck a truce, so passengers no longer have to guess which one works in what cab. On Wednesday (Sept. 10), VeriFone, whose Way2ride system worked in about half of NYC’s...

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...