Don’t let the seemingly low value of $42 million raised this week by B2B venture capital firms fool you: VC activity in the space was strong, hitting key verticals like cross-border payments and SaaS. Investors went global, too, reaching out to Australian, Chinese, U.S. and...
To help grow its engineering and fraud teams and build out its machine learning Guaranteed Fraud Protection enterprise offering, solutions provider Signifyd today announced its Series C round of $56 million in funding. The financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures with additional funds provided by...
The problem with EMV for most consumers and merchants comes down to speed, Visa and Index have learned. The change in hand motion didn’t really throw most customers off that much. Moving from a swipe to dip didn’t turn out to be so very fundamentally...
Furniture and home decor shopping can sometimes be a long process of visiting retail store after retail store to find just the right piece. Sometimes even when furniture is purchased and consumers get it home, the piece doesn’t quite look right in its intended room....
In late June of this year on New York’s 6th Avenue, Bluemercury will be opening its 2,600 square foot flagship store in the base of a Hilton hotel. It will be the retail cosmetics chain’s splashiest opening of the year — co-founder and COO Barry Beck told...
For quite some time, office supplies retailer Staples has been struggling to stay afloat. 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...
Another big week in the developing connected car space. One expanded partnership between a payment company and a vehicle manufacturer, along with a recent connected-car device company acquisition, looks to set the stage for further developments and greater interconnectivity. Get the Full Story Complete the...
U.S. auto sales fell for the fourth straight month, declining 4.7 percent in April — the biggest slowdown of the year, and a strong indication that 2017 will put an end to seven straight years of growth. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Battling fraud is not a battle that should be fought single-handedly. CA Technologies is debuting a consortium-driven, real-time behavioral analytics model that seeks to leverage real-time learning and instant risk scoring into real-time victories against fraudsters, scammers and bad guys.
