When Cotopaxi Founder Davis Smith began shopping his idea for an outdoor gear company with a focus on giving back — particularly to people in need — investors didn’t get it. Unlike what he described as “the 1980s model of corporate social responsibility,” which mostly involved...
By all accounts, Cyber Monday 2018 was a roaring success. With, according to the most popular estimate, 7.9 billion in online sales, the result beat forecasts for the day and represents a 19.7 percent increase over 2017’s $6.6 billion in sales. It was good enough to...
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Online travel booking platform Booking.com is enhancing the payments experience for its corporate customers through a partnership with business travel payments and billing company AirPlus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Amazon and WeWork have reportedly pressed pause on their partnership to introduce Alexa for Business into workspaces, reports in CNBC said this week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
The allure of blockchain was its potential to be a catch-all solution, but as innovators take a more practical approach to introducing the technology to the real world, its true opportunity may lie in addressing highly specialized, unique points of friction. In finance, that could...
As proof that FinTech sandboxes are going global, Kuwait has become the latest player in the Middle East to debut a framework. Elsewhere, a Kenyan bank has embraced FinTech for money transfer activities.
The impacts of ongoing trade disputes between the U.S. and China are beginning to be felt by suppliers, according to Wall Street Journal reports on Wednesday (Nov. 28). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Despite any possible reservations early on, large financial institutions (FIs) now appear to be going all in on Open Banking, with plans to introduce new revenue streams as a a result. Key to their Open Banking plans are their corporate clients, according to new research...
