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B2B Payments
The Financial Literacy Link To Supply Chain Digitization
January 07, 2020

Supply chain management is increasingly more strategic than operational, enabling businesses around the world to improve their bottom lines while meeting the intensifying demands of end customers: quick and convenient ordering, faster and cheaper delivery, greater product choice and more. Get the Full Story Complete...

B2B Payments
Banks Elevate SMB Lending With FinTech Tie-Ups
January 07, 2020

Open Banking and bank-FinTech collaboration are the new norm for financial institutions around the world looking to upgrade their offerings for small businesses (SMBs). In this week’s examination of the latest tie-ups, collaborations emerge from India and Qatar to the U.S. and beyond, with small...

Artificial Intelligence
Toyota Engineers Blueprint Japanese Smart City
January 07, 2020

Plans for a hydrogen-powered city of the future near Mt. Fuji were unveiled by Toyota at the Computer Electronic Show (CES) on Monday (Jan. 6), the company announced.  Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Insight Partners To Buy Cybersecurity Firm Armis For $1.1B
January 07, 2020

Insight Partners, a U.S.-based firm, has purchased Israeli cybersecurity firm Armis for around $1 billion, according to reports on Monday. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Merchant Innovation
Qualcomm Enables Car Companies To Get Updates, Data From The Cloud
January 07, 2020

With its new Car-to-Cloud service, microchip supplier Qualcomm wants to connect your car to the cloud. 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...

Digital Banking
ADVANCE.AI Consortium Seeks Singaporean Digital Banking License
January 07, 2020

Yet another business consortium vies for a lucrative, wholesale digital banking license, according to reports. Singapore’s FinTech firm ADVANCE.AI, Hong Kong’s financial services company Sheng Ye Capital and Singapore’s firm Phillip Capital are the most recent in a series of contenders for critical business permits...

Merchant Innovation
At CES, Voice Plus Vehicles Jump Start The Connected Economy
January 07, 2020

The future of the connected vehicle ecosystem — emphasis on connected —  is becoming more clear, it seems, every day. And that push continues this week with news from Amazon and others, along with the start of the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and...

Mobile Payments
Tracing The Rise Of Multi-Issuer Mobile Wallets
January 07, 2020

Mobile wallets are on the march, so to speak, and what happens with them in their next phase of development — in 2020 and beyond — will say much about what happens to broader areas of payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Security & Fraud
What Iran Can – And Won’t – Do In A Cyberwar
January 07, 2020

A crippling cyberwar with Iran looms, but maybe not. In an interview with Karen Webster, Samuel S. Visner, director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), separates fact from fiction as to what Iran can — and won’t — do when...