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Alibaba Rival Launches Credit Service With ZestFinance
June 29, 2015

JD.com has soundly secured the second place spot in China’s eCommerce market behind Alibaba, but now it wants to take on the eCommerce giant in another industry: credit scoring. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

UK Cybersecurity Firm Gets $1.6B Value Post IPO Price
June 29, 2015

Sophos, the IT security firm, revealed the pricing of its initial public offering, bringing the total valuation of the company to £1 billion and marking one of the largest flotations by a technology company in the U.K., TechCrunch reported late last week. Get the Full...

International
PayByPhone Targets Easier Urban Parking
June 29, 2015

PayByPhone, the mobile payments company that is focused on parking, said on Friday (June 26) in a release that it is streamlining the experience in a city setting. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Alternative Finances
PayNearMe Sets The Record Straight (About Layoffs And Fundraising)
June 29, 2015

Financial services startup PayNearMe is not as well-known as some of the other high-tech players in the game — largely a consequence of who its target audience is. The firm’s focus are not tech-savvy players after all but instead the 25 or so percent of U.S. consumers...

Cool
PYPL Starts Trading On July 20
June 29, 2015

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How T&E Execs Can Learn To ‘Speak Treasury’
June 29, 2015

When it comes to dialogue between corporate departments, a common language is key. And when travel execs want to get a new payments system in place, learning to communicate with Treasury is likely to be an important part of the process. In a recent whitepaper,...

In Depth
Payments And The Summer Of Sharing
June 27, 2015

A little over a generation ago — 28 years to be exact — about 100,000 Americans celebrated the Summer of Love by converging on San Francisco. At the same time,  a much larger number of Americans watched the summer of love unfold on that era’s...

A&P’s Late-Pay Feud With Supplier Heads To Court
June 26, 2015

The topic of late payments is often focused on the U.K. Lawmakers there are facing growing frustration among its small suppliers that say they have to wait too long, sometimes months, to get paid from their large corporate buyers. Get the Full Story Complete the...

B2B Payments
Is China’s Shadow Banking Worth The Risk?
June 26, 2015

China’s current lending market is a complicated one. The nation’s State Council issued a statement earlier this month welcoming crowdfunding as a way to stimulate economic growth, while its P2P lending sector is among the world’s largest. But traditional banks’ disdain for the market, coupled...