Experts in the travel procurement sector agree that centralized travel procurement is optimal, but not every organization is equipped to implement and support such a system. What can businesses learn from the experiences of those leading in house travel departments?
Mobile banking has become an almost indispensable aspect of consumer banking, yet only a third of SMBs use it as a tool to help them run their businesses. Is it for lack of interest or lack of availability?
Bitcoins.com, currently home to a very nice beginners primer on digital currency, has up until today been the property of Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of Mt. Gox. After today, it remains to been seen, as the domain name is going up on the auction...
Sweden-based iZettle has capped off the series C investment round it first kicked off in May 2014 with an additional pick-up of $6.8 million, brining total round investment to to $61.2 million. To date, the company has raised a little under $120 million total. Get...
PayPal-owned Braintree is hoping to be the cash register on every app. With the release of its newly updated suite of development tools, Braintree has now made it possible for corporate developers to add their company’s credit-card-payments system and a PayPal button to their app...
Taxi Magic, a ridesharing service that allows users to hail a cab via their phone, is rolling out a new service today that will allow registered users of the app to beam out, via Apple’s iBeacon technology, the referral code for the service to others....
Customer finance start-up Affirm has announced the release of Split Pay, a service that allows online merchants to offer installment payments to their consumers at the point of sale. By using Split Pay, shoppers can make a purchase and pay across multiple months with simple,...
Synchrony Financial, the about to IPO GE Capital spinoff, has announced a strategic investment in mobile payments company LoopPay. Loop will provide Synchrony with unique benefits and features for its retail partners and cardholders. Synchrony is the largest provider of private label credit cards in...
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) - worries that the U.S. banking system is dangerously vulnerable to acts of cyber-warfare that could fundamentally damage the entire economy. To head off the threat, the organization wants to see banking executives, federal officials and security...
