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Retail
Retailers Get Ready To Pass Along Rising Costs Via Price Increases
April 26, 2021

A growing number of retailers are facing a pricing problem as they seek new ways to pass along the increased expenses they are dealing with due to rising costs in several key categories including raw materials, wages and shipping. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Banking
BNP Paribas On How Open Banking APIs Can Help Merchants Support Seamless A2A Payments
April 26, 2021

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B2B Payments
Easing Video Game Developers’ Influencer Payout Headaches
April 26, 2021

The explosion of the influencer economy has opened up entire ecosystems through which brands can advertise and reach new potential customers. As a result, content creators are becoming vital marketing partners of organizations looking to tap into the power of social media and other online...

B2B Payments
Why 2020 B2B Payment Practices May Have Improved
April 26, 2021

The pandemic can certainly take the blame for troves of business closures over the last year, inevitably resulting in B2B payment delays, or worse: suppliers never receiving full compensation from defunct customers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

B2B Payments
SMBs Lead An Effort For Faster, Safer Loan Underwriting
April 26, 2021

The open banking model zeroes in on the opportunities that third-party FinTechs might have by unlocking banking data of their clients. But as the concept proliferates throughout the financial services world, providers are examining new possibilities of consensual data sharing in other ways. Get the...

Faster Payments
Deep Dive: The Strengths And Limitations Of Real-Time Payments Rail Interoperability Strategies
April 26, 2021

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Security & Fraud
Mastercard’s Gerber: Cybersecurity Needs Its Own Paris Accord
April 26, 2021

Recent research shows that the average data breach costs financial institutions (FIs) $210 on average per compromised account, and it costs merchants $119. But on both counts, the costs of lost customers and damaged reputations cannot be quantified – and the importance of securing consumer...

IPO
MoffettNathanson’s Lisa Ellis On Why She’s Bullish On Coinbase
April 26, 2021

The “Google of the crypto economy” and Netscape 2.0. are just two of the many powerful analogies the Coinbase initial public offering (IPO) garnered on its April 14 debut with a closing stock price of $328.28 and an $85.8 billion market cap. It’s been a...

Investments
Chinese Firms Listing In US At 8x Clip Over 2020
April 26, 2021

Chinese companies are listing on U.S. exchanges at a record pace, Bloomberg News reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...