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Merchant Innovation
Is Toys”R”Us Turning It Around?
March 11, 2016

It’s not a great time to be in the brick-and-mortar toy business, what with new deals to be had every single day online and kids more predisposed to digital media anyway. Still, Toys”R”Us is showing signs that it could be pulling out of its extended...

Cross Border Commerce
Why The Summer Olympics May Be An Epic Test For Airbnb
March 11, 2016

What do Airbnb, X-border payments and the Summer Olympics have in common? Nagarajan Rao, Transpay’s SVP and global head of business and product, says Herculean challenges that the sharing economy has to accommodate a cross-border customer. That and 78 profiles of X-border players in this...

B2B Payments
A Survival Guide To The Fragmented Procure-To-Pay Market
March 11, 2016

The B2B payments services and technology sector is both shrinking and expanding. How? As more innovators and disruptors roll out their tools, companies are collaborating and consolidating in hopes of achieving streamlined, end-to-end solutions that meet the needs of both buyer and supplier. Get the...

China’s Drastic Remedy For Bad Corporate Debt
March 11, 2016

Nonperforming loans (NPL) are spiking in China, according to reports, and banks are looking for ways to ease their losses. An exclusive report from Reuters on Thursday (March 10) said China’s central bank is readying new rules to help the banks. Get the Full Story...

B2B Payments
Why Most Companies Want To Abandon Their Suppliers
March 11, 2016

Corporate buyers are slated to leave their supplier partners in droves, according to new research released Thursday (March 10) by Gallup. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

AribaPay’s B2B Payments Cross Into New Territory
March 11, 2016

B2B payments service provider AribaPay has big plans for expansion. After launching in the U.S. in 2014, AribaPay said Thursday (March 10) that it will now begin operations in Canada, with plans to expand into Europe and Latin America in the near future. Get the...

B2B Payments
US B2B Startups Fail To Land On The Board
March 11, 2016

It seems every week we ponder whether there actually exists a drought in venture capital. B2B funding is far from consistent. This week, investors provided more than $22.5 million to B2B startups. It’s not the most the industry has enjoyed, but it’s certainly not the...

A Guided Tour Of Payments In Latin America
March 11, 2016

Cash is still king. Installment payments rule. Fraud is hard to spot. Online and mobile rule. That’s the lay of the payments land in Latin America. Martin Schrimpff, Co-Founder of PayU and MPD CEO Karen Webster recently took PYMNTS peeps on a fascinating tour of...

Regulation
Foreign Banks Knock Fed’s ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Plans
March 11, 2016

A number of banks based outside of the United States have been raising opposition to proposals by the Federal Reserve to bring “too-big-to-fail” rules into force. The non-U.S. banks have said that the rules would be unfair to the U.S. units of those very banks....