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Payments Innovation
FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype
June 17, 2016

Silicon Valley has the banking industry in its crosshairs. Hardly a day, hardly even a nanosecond, goes by without a VC, entrepreneur, or tech media pundit claiming that some Internet-something-or-other is going to take out the stodgy financial services industry. Get the Full Story Complete...

B2B Payments
Chamber Of Commerce Finds Corporates Pained By Dodd-Frank
June 17, 2016

A survey released on Thursday (June 16) by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has found that corporations are struggling as a result of Dodd-Frank financial reforms. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Visa’s Merchant-Friendly EMV Moves
June 17, 2016

Visa is the first to admit that a lot of progress has been made in the U.S. EMV migration over the last seven months. Today, there are 300 million chip cards in circulation and 1.2 million EMV merchant locations. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Apple Pay’s Unattended Retail Boost
June 17, 2016

Advertising is designed to drive sales but it’s often tough to close the loop and prove the point. It’s a question that USA Technologies, a leader in digitizing payments for unattended retail, wanted answered with respect to the use of mobile payments to buy goodies...

B2B Payments
AR Insurance Market Expands With Allied World Entrance
June 17, 2016

Nonpayment can lead to implosion for a supplier. Issues of delayed and late payment only heighten those anxieties for a business that they may never get paid. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Canada’s CAD-COIN — And Bitcoin’s Price Rally
June 17, 2016

Is the concept of “experimenting with a digital dollar” the financial services industry’s version of the hula hoop? Flash in the pan sizzle that will soon crash and fizzle? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

eCommerce
The Four Blind Spots Costing Big Retail Big Bucks
June 17, 2016

Cha-choke? Underperforming online merchants leave $168 billion annually on the table because they can’t close the deal with their shoppers. And big retailers, despite their seeming advantage, fare no better than their smaller counterparts. The latest Checkout Conversion Index reports the latest findings for the...

Retail
Sizzle Or Fizzle: EMV, Apple, Birchbox (And Why Being First Isn’t The Same As Winning)
June 17, 2016

It was an alphabet soup of sizzle/fizzle this week: EMV, WWDC, PLCC, CCI, and SFBI all rocked the payments and commerce world one way or the other. Read on if you want the full translation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

B2B Payments
SaaS Firm Says UK Cloud eProcurement Portal A Flop
June 17, 2016

Enterprise cloud hosting firm Memset has some bad news: The U.K.’s efforts to adopt a more sophisticated cloud and IT eProcurement portal is far from a success. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...