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Craig Wright To Bitcoin Community: So Long, Farewell
May 06, 2016

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Payment Service That Takes Business Personally
May 05, 2016

Many solutions providers enter the B2B payments space for the same reason: a desire to make the process of business paying each other as easy as consumers paying merchants. Entryless CEO and Founder Mike Galarza tells PYMNTS that step No. 1 in doing that focuses...

CFPB
CFPB Expected To Release New Arbitration Rules
May 05, 2016

Later this morning the CFPB will begin taking comments on proposed rules that would ban financial firms from placing mandatory arbitration clauses within consumer contracts. Said clauses ban consumers from seeking redress for potential issues in a court of law, in favor of disputes between...

PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Alibaba’s Earnings Results
May 05, 2016

Alibaba announced its March quarter earnings today (May 5) — along with its full fiscal year 2016 results — and it appears that Alibaba has made a turnaround from where it was a year ago. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Merchant Innovation
Samsung Moves On Smart Grocery Sales
May 05, 2016

Samsung is making its move on grocery, though not in quite the same way other competitors in the field are. 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
Whole Foods Split Earnings Result
May 05, 2016

It was a good news/bad news earnings report for the much scrutinized Whole Foods market yesterday (May 4).  The organic grocery chain managed to beat on earnings, but missed on revenue. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Shopify Boosted By Amazon Deals
May 05, 2016

If a company in the eCommerce space is looking to make some headway, it couldn’t do much better than partnering with Amazon. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Risk Management
So Far, 2016 Is A Boom Year For Retail Bankruptcies
May 05, 2016

This time last year, U.S. companies were going bankrupt at a rate nobody had seen in half a decade. More than 26,000 companies bit the bullet in Q1 2015, giving pundits reasonable cause to worry about the future solvency of the organizations that remained. Get the Full...

Merchant Innovation
Apple Seeks New Innovation Blood From Google X Founder
May 05, 2016

Now that Apple’s less-than-stellar earnings report has had time to propagate throughout the industry, the commonsense takeaway is that the company has lost a piece of the innovation mojo that has defined the brand for so long. Haters beware — Apple isn’t taking that criticism laying...