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B2B Payments
GSA Strengthen Cloud-Based Procurement
October 21, 2014

The General Services Administration has introduced a new category for its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to highlight cloud systems proven FedRAMP ready. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Another Major Retailer Breached
October 21, 2014

The $21 billion office supply chain Staples appears to be the latest retail chain hit by cyberthieves. 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...

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Will Apple Pay Prove To Be Payments’ Model T?
October 21, 2014

Henry Ford didn’t invent the car, the internal combustion engine or the wheel— those honors go to Karl Benz, Nikolaus Otto and Eugene Langen (or Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci) and an unknown early human who lived before the era of patents. And yet when asked about...

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Bitcoin Processor Takes In Big VC Cash
October 21, 2014

The Bitcoin payments processor that was created by former Visa and Cybersource people, Bitnet, has pulled in $14.5 million in funding, including from a new player on the digital currency scene: Rakuten. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Feds Figure Out Who Did Not Attack Chase
October 21, 2014

At a briefing from the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, authorities say that they no longer suspect the Russian government of playing any role in the August cyber attacks against JPMorgan Chase. Turns out the attack was carried out by routine cyberthieves simply trying...

B2B Payments
U.K Small Business Loans Fall Down ~$650 million
October 20, 2014

U.K Small Business Loans Fall Down ~$600 million 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, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you...

Health Sunshine Act Didn’t Reveal All It Was Supposed To
October 20, 2014

When the Open Payments launched earlier this month, it had the same kinds of small glitches that many major site launches have. But this site, designed solely to shed light on B2B medical payments, skipped some $1.1 billion in transactions, according to a Wall Street...

Mobile Payments To Benefit From Tech Investments
October 20, 2014

Financial service companies are expected to invest about $110 billion in various payment technologies by 2017, with mobile getting a very healthy percentage of those funds, projects Frost & Sullivan. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Controversial
What Only The “Almost Famous” Know About Payments
October 20, 2014

Nobody in the real world likes failure.  When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they plan to enjoy, not the many valuable lessons they will learn in the wake their inevitable failure – a reality is that 99.99...