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B2B Payments
Challenger FinTech Firms Can’t Rely On Tech Offerings Alone: ANNA
October 24, 2018

U.K. alternative financial service (FinServ) players promising a small business (SMB) banking revolution — and a challenge to the status quo established by high-street banks — may have spoken too soon. The U.K. market has seen a surge in challenger banks and FinTech firms vowing...

B2B Payments
IBM And The Blockchain Bet
October 24, 2018

Investors may have focused mainly on the headline numbers, where IBM missed top-line expectations. Management sounded sanguine on the earnings call about the longer-term potential of new tech trends that include blockchain.

B2B Payments
WEX Strikes Noventis Acquisition Deal
October 24, 2018

Commercial payments company WEX is looking to expand its offering by acquiring one of its partners, Noventis. 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...

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LevaData Eyes Procurement’s Slow March Toward Data Analytics
October 24, 2018

Enterprise digitization is beginning to see a troubling trend. While executives may understand the importance of key technologies like data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve their processes, they don’t always turn that understanding into actionable adoption of those tools. Get...

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Oracle ERP Accelerates Treasury Transactions With Citi Integration
October 24, 2018

Oracle is integrating its ERP platform into Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) with the aim of accelerating corporate transactions, the companies said in an announcement Tuesday (Oct. 23). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Security & Fraud
Paytm Founder Targeted In Blackmail Scheme
October 24, 2018

Three people have been remanded in India over an alleged plot to blackmail the founder of Paytm for $2.7 million. According to Reuters on Monday (Oct. 22), Paytm’s spokeswoman, “Sonia Dhawan, her husband Rupak Jain and another Paytm employee, Devendra Kumar, were arrested on Monday following...

Delivery
Uber Eats Throws Down Gauntlet, Aims For 70 Pct Of Food Delivery Market
October 24, 2018

Uber plans the expansion its on-demand food delivery service Uber Eats so that it covers more than 70 percent of the U.S. by the end of the year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Regulation
OCC Fines Capital One $100M Over AML Lapse
October 24, 2018

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that it has fined Capital One $100 million due to shortcomings in the company’s Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering programs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Security & Fraud
Why Using Rules Of Thumb To Predict Fraud Is A Fail
October 24, 2018

Rules of thumb are useful — until they aren’t. When it comes to deploying corporate resources in the battle against online fraud and account takeovers (ATOs), all too often, guiding principles fail to spot what’s really happening to a business in real time. Get the...