News

Pixlee Lets Retailers Market Using Real Customers’ Photos
August 17, 2016

Selfies or vacation photos are apparently a big business. Seriously. 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...

Retail
Pop-Up Stores Popping Up In Malls — Here’s Why
August 17, 2016

More and more malls are dedicating space to the pop-up style of short-term retailers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Retail
eCommerce Sales Up In 2016
August 17, 2016

ECommerce has been up on the year so far — way up. 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...

Mobile Payments
UnionPay Comes To North America With Merchants Now Accepting QuickPass In Canada
August 17, 2016

UnionPay International announced on Tuesday (Aug. 16) that several daily-spending merchants in Canada will start accepting UnionPay mobile QuickPass, marking the debut of the service in North America. Before its entrance into Canada, UnionPay mobile QuickPass was accepted at over 220,000 POS terminals in Hong...

B2B Payments
Brexit Looms As Supply Chain Disruptor
August 17, 2016

Cash crunch. Supplier risk. Brexit may have impact on the world stage beyond just politics and the European Union. Here's what SMBs must bear in mind as the separation lurches toward completion.

International
Germany Gets A Taste For P2P Payments With Cookies App
August 17, 2016

Peer-to-peer payments, or P2P, may be branching out from the States. 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...

Alternative Finances
Bizfi Provides $144M In Q2 SMB Lending
August 17, 2016

FinTech firm Bizfi, which offers a platform that serves as a combination of aggregation, funding and a small business marketplace, said that it had seen a boost of 25 percent year over year in its small business originations in the most recently completed second quarter....

Digital Banking
Citi Nabs JPMorgan Exec To Lead Its Tech Operations
August 17, 2016

Citigroup announced on Tuesday (Aug. 16) it has tapped Gavin Michael, head of digital for consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, to lead technology for the company’s global consumer bank. Michael will replace Mark Torkos in the role. Torkos retired from Citigroup in July. Get...

Security & Fraud
ACI Worldwide Teams With Ethoca On Merchant Fraud Alerts
August 17, 2016

ACI Worldwide, a provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced an integration agreement on Tuesday (Aug. 16) with Ethoca, a provider of collaboration-based technology solutions for credit card companies and online merchants. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...