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B2B Payments
Citi Virtualizes Accounts For Corporate Treasurers
September 26, 2018

The latest corporate banking offering by Citi aims to virtualize treasurer accounts for more personalized, streamlined services. The bank said in an announcement Tuesday (Sept. 25) that it is rolling out Citi Virtual Accounts for institutional clients. The tool lets corporate customers segregate balances within...

Ridesharing
Uber Lawsuit Verdict: Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees
September 26, 2018

A three-judge panel has ruled in favor of the company in the Uber lawsuit focused on Uber jobs and whether the ridesharing company’s drivers should be considered Uber employees or freelancers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Security & Fraud
Airport Biometrics Tech Not Quite Ready For Prime Time
September 26, 2018

A new report revealed that Homeland Security’s face scanning airport security program is facing “technical and operational challenges” and might not be ready to launch nationwide by its estimated completion in 2021. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

International
Data Privacy Complaints In France Increase Post-GDPR
September 26, 2018

Four months after General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, France is seeing a rise in data privacy complaints. 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...

B2B Payments
What Newton’s First Law Has To Do With B2B Payments
September 26, 2018

Maybe Isaac Newton — the hopelessly hopeful alchemist who came up with some solid rules of physics — was a genius of business and even B2B payments, too. After all, one of his main rules concerns the tendency for objects (by which he means everything...

Payment Methods
Staying Ahead Of The All-In-One Card Curve
September 26, 2018

The graveyard of payments innovation is littered with would be all-In-one cards. Batteries? Plastic? Failed startups? Curve's CEO Shachar Bialick tells Karen Webster that the secret to consolidated card success lies with letting consumers decide on payment methods — long after the transaction is done. Call it...

Security & Fraud
TRENDING: Digital Driver’s Licenses Put ‘Getting Carded’ On Notice
September 26, 2018

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Five At Five: Google’s P2P Move; Whole Foods Does Robotic Farming
September 25, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes a possible P2P payments offering from Google, along with virtual reality becoming airplane entertainment. Whole Foods gets cozy with robots, Sears tries again to stay alive and...

Payments Innovation
How Airline Loyalty Points Work As Currency
September 25, 2018

When it comes to using loyalty points as a currency, some might underestimate the difficulty of such an application: “People kind of shrug,” Modo CEO Bruce Parker told PYMNTS.com in an interview. They think that “deploying loyalty points and redeeming them for stuff seems like something...