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Assembling Millennials’ Digital Master Payments Plan
December 15, 2017

Mastercard hopes to usher a new generation into the financial mainstream with its new Assemble platform for millennials. The lack of an easy onramp has forced young account holders to cobble together a financial management strategy across many platforms and apps to receive the services...

Retail
The Power Of Bringing Better Data For The Holidays
December 14, 2017

Arguably, the internet’s premier destination for auctions is eBay, which is not an unfair statement, given the sheer volume of said auctions going on via its website at any given moment. But as massive and instantly associable as auctions are, eBay has spent the last several...

Retail
Holiday Spending Continues Upward For Americans
December 14, 2017

Thanks to early boosts from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, the holiday season is poised to be a merrier one for retailers, as Americans are upping their online and in-store spending, according to news from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday (Dec. 14). Get the...

Retail
PetSmart Continues Brick-And-Mortar Expansion With More Store Openings
December 14, 2017

Pet goods retail chain PetSmart announced Thursday it had opened 28 new brick-and-mortar storefronts in North America during the quarter that ended Nov. 1, 2017, with new locations spanning the United States and Canada. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Retail
The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
December 14, 2017

When a company is as massive as any one of the Frightful Five, the bad news is it’s inevitable that some things will slip under the radar. Apple and Amazon learned that the hard way this week as partners called them out on fake apps...

B2B Payments
Nesta Chooses Open Up Challenge Winners
December 14, 2017

Nesta has announced the 10 winners of Stage 1 of its Open Up Challenge, a competition in the U.K. for developers of FinTech targeting small business banking disruption. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

B2B Payments
Corporates Headed For GDPR Wakeup Call
December 14, 2017

The eyes of the financial services world are on the EU’s upcoming PSD2 regulations, with many jurisdictions watching how the European market evolves and responds to regulations that support data sharing and open banking, while maintaining data security. But there’s another, less talked-about regulation coming...

B2B Payments
Boost To Finserv Competition Fails To Ease UK SMB Access To Finance
December 14, 2017

New research from merchant banking group Close Brothers suggests U.K. small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are still largely struggling to access financing, despite a recent influx of competition in the banking and finance space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

B2B Payments
Reality Of Procurement’s Digital Disruption ‘Disappointing,’ Say Analysts
December 14, 2017

With the procurement function now a critical component of strategic corporate growth, procurement executives have earned a seat at the business leaders’ table and are now taking part in conversations surrounding the overall digital disruption of the enterprise. Get the Full Story Complete the form...