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Retail
Why AMC’s Subscription Service Is Soaring
August 21, 2018

MoviePass, as regular readers know, has fallen on rather rough times. The subscription service was designed to disrupt the industry: Instead of paying $9, $10 or even $13 or $14 to go to a movie, the theater customer of the future would instead subscribe to...

IPO
Farfetch Plans For IPO
August 21, 2018

After nearly a decade in business, U.K. based retailer Farfetch has announced it is ready to go public. 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...

Retail
Customer Self-Service Software Market Expected To Reach $13B By 2023
August 21, 2018

A new report revealed that the customer self-service (CSS) software market was valued at more than $5 billion last year, and is expected to grow to $13 billion by 2023. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Retail
The Rise Of Returnable Insta-Fashions
August 21, 2018

Instagram has created a new trend among the middle-aged hoping to be hip: purchasing new clothes online, snapping a shot in them and then sending them back to the company from which they were purchased. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Security & Fraud
In South Africa, Debit Order Fraud Grows
August 21, 2018

Amid the headlines about cryptocurrency fraud, hacked digital wallets, data breaches and synthetic identities, some methods of making off with ill-gotten gains may fly a bit under the radar — they may even seem quaint. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Investments
Klook CPO Liu Outlines Travel Booking Platform’s Global Expansion
August 21, 2018

Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. Throw another round number into the mix: $200 million. That’s the amount that Klook — a startup based in Hong...

Security & Fraud
Why It’s Time To Retire Knowledge-Based Authentication
August 21, 2018

What was the make and model of your first car? What was your elementary school? What is your mother’s maiden name? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

B2B Payments
Augmentum Invests In Trio Of B2B FinTechs: Tide, Previse And DueDil
August 21, 2018

Venture capital firm Augmentum Fintech has placed nearly $9 million in three B2B FinTechs, reports this week said. 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
FinTechs Link With FIs Down Under And Beyond
August 21, 2018

Home lending, trade lending, from Australia to the U.S. to Australia to the sub-continent, traditional FIs and non-bank lenders are linking with FinTechs to bring digital choices to the masses. Travelers, Homeloans, Finserve and Kenya were in the headlines this week.