Email marketers are facing roadblocks due to a new regulation that requires consumers to opt in before additional emails can be sent to them. According to a report in CNBC, the rules are hurting the email marketing companies because consumers don’t even open the emails,...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a forum for the world’s central banks, wants specific regulations that were introduced after the 2008 financial crisis to also be extended to shadow banks and FinTech firms. According to Reuters, the regulation in question is “macroprudential” policy, which...
Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment app owned by PayPal, is gearing up to discontinue web support for its payment service. TechCrunch, citing an email to users, reported that the Venmo.com website will phase out support for payments, and eventually there will be even less functionality on...
It stands as one of the top pain points in B2B payments, a place of uncertainty and anxiety, a spot where a late or ignored payment can fatally wound a business: the collection of money owed on outstanding invoices. But every source of pain is...
Data collection is vital. So are mobile and fraud alerts. However, for banks and credit unions still trying to do more to meet the demands of customers in this digital world (and as those customers continue to become more demanding), service can never slip. Those...
We compartmentalize our daily lives, separating goals and task into manageable “buckets” of thought and actions. Why should payments be any different? In the latest Topic TBD, Kelley Knutson, president of Netspend, notes that consumers are discovering new ways to discover what they want to...
In a survey of accounts payable professionals released last week, analysts found that suppliers often struggle to gain insight into whether or not their invoices have been paid. According to InvoiceInfo‘s third annual Accounts Payable Customer Service Survey, published Friday (June 15), the most common...
Russia’s corporate treasurers are working with the nation’s central bank on a blockchain initiative, reports in CoinDesk said Friday (June 15). The Russian Association of Corporate Treasurers is joining the government-led Masterchain blockchain initiative, a platform developed by the central bank to facilitate communication within...
Father’s Day has always had some trouble engendering the kind of enthusiasm for gift giving that Mother’s Day does — and we mean always. The holiday was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, who, when she first heard about Anna Jarvis’ efforts to create Mother’s Day as a...
