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Investments
Kasisto Lands $17M, Plans Expansion
December 14, 2017

Kasisto, the creator of KAI, the conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform for finance, announced news on Wednesday (Dec. 13) that it raised $17 million in a Series B round of fundraising. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Payment Methods
Standardizing Digital Payments Standardization
December 14, 2017

Payments standardization is easy in concept, difficult in process in the age of mobile commerce. How to bridge the divides between payments firms, consumers and businesses? A few key tenets, according to Sang Ahn, Samsung VP and GM of Samsung Pay, involve simplification, unification and...

Payment Methods
No Straight Road On The PayFac Road
December 14, 2017

At first glance, becoming a payments facilitator seems a sure-fire way to help simplify the merchant account enrollment journey. But as with any corporate endeavor, the devil is in the details, as Mike Cottrell, SVP of Business Development at TSYS’ ProPay, tells PYMNTS’ Karen Webster.

Cross-border Payments
TRENDING: Where Payments, Logistics And The Last Mile Converge
December 14, 2017

It’s going to be a busy holiday season, with major delivery services like UPS and the U.S. Postal Service expected to ship an overwhelming 1.6 billion packages this year — more than were delivered last year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Payment Methods
Australia Central Bank Considers Electronic Bank Notes
December 13, 2017

The central bank of Australia is in the midst of considering whether to create bank notes using blockchain, according to news from The Financial Times. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Retail
Shopping Malls Freshen Up With Chatbots
December 13, 2017

Whether customers shop at a mall once a week or once a year, it’s safe to say that most would probably find a visit to the Mall of America a bit overwhelming, especially if they’ve brought the whole family along, and especially if it’s Christmas...

Retail
ThredUP Launches Try-Before-You-Buy Goody Boxes
December 13, 2017

In subscription commerce news, consignment startup thredUP has announced it will help customers try clothes on before making purchases through its new Goody Box offering. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

Retail
Target And The Gift That Can’t Go Wrong
December 13, 2017

Choosing the perfect gift can be hard — for the giver, for the recipient (who may not always like the gift, but must be gracious all the same) and for the retailer from whom the gift was purchased, who will likely have to process the return...

Retail
The Mainstream Retail Future Of AR/VR
December 13, 2017

Augmented and virtual worlds have long been touted as the future for all kinds of things — gaming, healthcare, travel, tele-learning. They’re experiences where being there counts in a lot of important ways, but virtualizing the experience and making it consumable digitally catches most of that...