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B2B Payments
Biz2Credit Bets On India’s Emerging Alt-Fin Market
June 06, 2016

Biz2Credit is expanding its small business lending operations into a market without much experience with alternative finance. An announcement on Friday (June 3) said the company will enter India, providing online financing to its SMEs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

How SMBs Can Get Smart About Payments
June 06, 2016

In today’s payments ecosystem, it isn’t just about moving fast, it’s about moving and thinking smart. 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...

Bitcoin
Yes, No, Maybe: Bitcoin, Bank of America And Apple Pay
June 06, 2016

Last week was short on work days due to the Monday holiday, but what the work week lacked in hours it made up for in action. The Visa acquisition of Visa Europe was approved by regulators, Amazon set Alexa free on browsers, Lending Club flipped the script and went looking for a loan...

B2B Payments
QuickBooks Enhances Mobile Strategy To Keep Up The Numbers
June 06, 2016

QuickBooks had a profitable quarter, but investors have doubts about the company’s ability to keep up demand for its small business services. Its latest quarterly report found that, while QuickBooks Online surpassed earnings expectations, subscriber growth dropped and has been dropping for three consecutive quarters...

Merchant Innovation
Software Eats The (Retail) Workforce
June 04, 2016

When most people worry about computers taking over the future, they are more likely than not reacting to the sort of sci-fi doomsday scenario they see in movies like “The Terminator” or “The Matrix.” For those who are unfamiliar, the plot for such a scenario involves...

International
In China, Must All Tech – And Payments – Be Local?
June 03, 2016

In politics, they say, everything is local. In China, the same rule seems to apply. 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,...

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Visa NFC Goes For The Gold
June 03, 2016

The countdown to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is on – and before any medals are handed out, Visa has decided to hand out some rings. Visa is the exclusive payment provider for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, a job it has held for...

Retail
The Good News About All Those Grocery Recalls
June 03, 2016

It has been a good month to be a Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, the cause of a mostly ignored disease that causes mild flu like symptoms in the otherwise healthy (though the very young, very old, immuno compromised and pregnant all face serious health risk from exposure)...

Retail
Lululemon Founder Deeply Dissatisfied With Firm’s Performance
June 03, 2016

Poor company performance rarely brings out laudatory reactions and so in some sense the board of Lululemon getting chewed out by firm founder Chip Wilson is not entirely shocking. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...