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Ixaris, Banking Circle Streamline X-Border Travel Payments
April 29, 2019

Travel payments optimization company Ixaris announced a new partnership with financial service infrastructure company Banking Circle to streamline cross-border payments for the travel industry. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

B2B Payments
How To Motivate FinServ To Take Action On Cybersecurity
April 29, 2019

To those who understand the importance of cybersecurity, and the monumental risks that growing cyberthreats impose on organizations, safeguarding systems and data may be assumed to go hand in hand with digital transformation. After all, the larger a company’s online and cloud presence, the bigger...

B2B Payments
Magaya Lands Funding For Supply Chain Software
April 29, 2019

LLR Partners has announced an investment in Magaya Corporation, a provider of warehouse, cargo and supply chain management software solutions. 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...

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In Wales, Late Payments’ Ripple Effects Felt In Construction Sector
April 29, 2019

A Welsh construction trade group is advocating for safeguards to get smaller suppliers paid in the wake of a larger firm’s collapse. In New Zealand, a name-and-shame game has taken root to expose late payors or firms that do not deliver goods at all.

B2B Payments
PayPal (Maybe) Pulls Ahead Of The SMB Lending Pack
April 29, 2019

With first-quarter earnings reports rolling out, it’s time to take a look at the state of small businesses and how they fared for the first three months of 2019. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Investments
SoftBank To Take Part In Investment Round For GetYourGuide
April 29, 2019

GetYourGuide, the German startup that lets people find and book travel tours based on a catalog of more than 35,000 activities, may have raised €500 million in venture funding. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Alternative Finances
Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
April 29, 2019

By the numbers, Americans are not a very financially literate people.  According to a Standard & Poor’s Global Financial Literacy survey only about 57 percent of the adult population is financially literate, and only about one out of three can answer simple questions about inflation,...

Retail
Why Amazon Bet (Almost) A Billion On Certainty
April 29, 2019

Amazon announced last week that it would spend $800 million to make one-day shipping the default for Prime members. Much of the coverage was about the hit to Q2 profits from the additional investments in logistics, warehousing and inventory management required to cut the current...

Investments
SoftBank Sees A Boost In Cash Flow
April 29, 2019

SoftBank is finally seeing a boost in its cash flow after spending billions on investing in other companies. 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...