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B2B Payments
How SMBs’ Manual Processes Cost Economies Billions In Lost Growth
September 18, 2017

Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Taking time to crunch numbers or hand-pick data is a waste for SMB owners, for sure. But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden:...

B2B Payments
UK Regs Won’t Publish Report On RBS’s Small Biz Scandal
September 18, 2017

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will not publish a report on its probe into allegations against the Royal Bank of Scotland pertaining to how it treated some of its small business customers, according to an article in the New York Times on Friday (Sept. 15)....

Security & Fraud
Equifax Lets Go Of Two Execs; Wealthy Victims Could Be At Risk After Breach
September 18, 2017

In the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax, the embattled credit scoring company announced that the Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and the chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, will both retire. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Regulation
Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies
September 18, 2017

Some of the most memorable television commercials of the 1970s and 1980s were those promoting E. F. Hutton’s brokerage services. When its tagline, “When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen,” was spoken in those commercials, everyone in the room stopped, turned to look and listened...

Retail
Marie Claire and Mastercard Team Up To Launch Pop-Up Shop
September 18, 2017

Fashion magazine Marie Claire and Mastercard, the payments company, are teaming up to launch a pop-up store dubbed The Next Big Thing Concept Shop. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Ant Financial Resubmits To CFIUS For MoneyGram Buy Approval
September 18, 2017

Ant Financial, the Chinese payment unit of Alibaba, is gearing up to resubmit to the U.S. its application to purchase MoneyGram International. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Security & Fraud
ATM Skimming Gets A Tech Upgrade
September 18, 2017

As mag stripe cards are giving way to EMV-protected alternatives, cybercriminals are on a final cash grab using some technologically improved ATM card skimmers. Skimmers, thus far, do not work on chip-based transactions — but only 45-50 percent of U.S. card transactions are done via...

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Why Consumers Are Less-Than-Secure Over Payments Security
September 18, 2017

How secure do you feel when it comes to payments? 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 daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...

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Jumio CEO On Finding The Anchor Point For Digital IDV
September 18, 2017

What to do in the wake of the Equifax data breach: Run? Hide? Freeze credit? 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 daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....