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415Advancing The Adoption Of Real-Time Payments
Major financial institutions (FIs) need to get on board with real-time payment systems for them to achieve widespread availability, while credit unions are finding friendly ground...
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558Digital Payments And The Online Workforce
Online payment methods and digital technologies are coming into the working world. In healthcare, identity is taking center stage amid digitalization in...
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691Building New Digital Experiences
Mobile can help build new loyalty offerings, while responses help build Facebook’s new plans for digital payments. Balance transfers could lead to...
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555Setting The Stage For Better Payments
P2P payments can play a big role in the B2B realm, while artificial intelligence is pulling more weight in the world of...
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619How To Build High Performance Via Digital — and Humans
Fraud is a two-headed beast, but the beast can be defeated as more consumers flock to marketplaces and other eCommerce destinations. Meanwhile,...
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912Bringing Speed And Digitization To Payments
Few companies meet customer demand for instant business-to-consumer (B2C) payments, while a large share of businesses still rely on paper checks for business-to-business (B2B) payments....
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1.1KHow Digital Tools Change The Security Landscape
Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics are changing the digital security landscape, and a recent study found that social media networks have...
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1.1KSecuring Digital Identities In The Information Age
Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become essential to verification as the world becomes more connected. In B2B news, Visa is launching an end-to-end...
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1.1KHow Big Tech Helps Businesses Find New Customers
Big Tech is helping large and small companies find new customers and build their businesses. And trust is important at a time when businesses are...
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1.7KOld Payments Problems, New Solutions
While the digital age has supplied any number of new solutions to problems, many of those problems still persist. Thieves target retailers,...
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1.2KFreeing, And Securing, Trapped Funds Everywhere
There are all kinds of ways money can end up “trapped.” It might get trapped in a security deposit, or get frozen...
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1.7KHelping Money Make The World Go ‘Round
Money, as the song goes, makes the world go ‘round – and these days, there is a lot of money going all...
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1.5KThe Evolving Terrain Of Fighting Fraud
Intro: Consumers undeniably want all of their transactions faster – and there is a penalty to be paid for making them wait....
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1.4KBringing Up The Averages In Payments And Commerce
If we had to pick one word for what every payments and commerce player wants, “more” would be a reasonable candidate. More...
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1.6KQSRs Enhance Mobile Offerings With AI Tech
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are improving their mobile offerings with new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). In ridesharing news, Uber showed slowing growth in its debut earnings...
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1.2KCredit Unions Join Forces To Boost Digital Offerings
Credit unions (CUs) are combining resources to offer better products and services their members crave, while car manufacturers are increasingly working with retailers to unlock new...
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1.6KPromoting Faster Payments In The Face Of Trade Uncertainty
Financial institutions (FIs) and service providers are promoting offerings for rapid, cross-border transactions in the face of trade uncertainties. On another note, over...
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1.6KInnovating With Payments To Compete In Saturated Markets
Gig, eCommerce and public utility firms are putting the spotlight on payment innovations to remain competitive in markets that are becoming increasingly saturated. In...
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3.8KInternet Of Things, A Thing Gone Global
Digital assistants. Smart fridges and thermostats. Security devices, too. The Internet of Things (IoT) has gone global, an ever-expanding ecosystem that touches...
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1.5KOn Track With Contactless Mass Transit Payments
If they can make it there, can they make it anywhere? May 31 marks the launch of a contactless payments pilot with...
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1.4KPayments, Speeding Across Borders
Cross-border payments have been a focal point for a growing number of stakeholders within financial services. For banks, it’s a multi-billion dollar...
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1.6KHelping The Smallest Businesses Navigate Credit – And Taxes
The gig economy is gaining ground, as an increasing number of workers have specialized skill sets. But even the savviest of individuals...
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2.0KRemote Payments, Front And Center, Near And Now
The inexorable rise of eCommerce has been a trend years in the making – and the smartphone is at the center of...
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1.5KBreaking New Ground In Payments — And With Young Consumers
Can a disbursement check be in the mail without actually being in the mail, so to speak? And can digital technology, including automatic payments, really...
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3.3KA Look Into The Future Of Payments And Commerce
The future of customer service will include humans and robots working in cahoots. The future of Mastercard — and its issuers and...
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2.1KBlazing New Paths To Payments And Commerce Innovation
As attention starts to shift toward younger consumers – Gen Z – social banking emerges as one way to capture their loyalty. Visa,...
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2.1KFixing Some Of The Big Problems In Payments And Commerce
Cyber fraud can be a corporate killer if complacency sets in – but there’s an answer for that. There are also fixes...
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1.5KWatching Out For Unexpected And Unintended Consequences
Many ideas can sound good in theory, but turn out less than perfectly in execution. In the 70s, there were gas price...
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1.5KGetting Everyone Into The Innovation Fast Lane
With Uber and Lyft IPOs now solidly in the rearview mirror, the question for many watching the market is what’s next –...
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2.0KCelebrating Small Business Week With Innovation
A little under half of the American workforce is employed by small businesses, and the majority of those workers are employed by...
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2.9KThe Innovation Race With Fraudsters Worldwide
For every innovation in payments and commerce worldwide – faster payments, marketplace-based commerce, self-service retail – there always seems to be a...
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1.8KBalancing Secure And Seamless Commerce
That customers want everything faster is a fact of life in the digital economy. From the amount of time it takes to...
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1.7KGreat Expectations, Challenging Executions
There is no shortage of bold claims on offer in payments and commerce. The last big news was that Facebook is building...
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2.0KEnabling A World Of Faster Disbursements
Instant payments are catching on with workers and business owners as traditional practices become retired. In technology, financial institutions (FIs) and corporates...
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2.2KThe Value Of Faster Payments
The flow of money and data across borders is developing a new ecosystem in which payments data has as much value as...
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1.7KAccounts Payable Automation And Innovation Friction
Innovation for accounts payable is often an afterthought, but automated solutions can efficiently onboard customers, cut back on errors and eliminate paper-based...
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993How Credit Unions Drive Member Engagement
Credit unions (CUs) are teaming up with other firms to stay competitive in the financial space. In Europe, strong customer identification (SCA)...
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1.5KPlanning For Future Growth With Payments
Platforms see payments as key to their growth objectives, but their capabilities in this field may be too inefficient to support their ambitious plans. On another...
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1.4KFood For Thought With Mobile Order-Ahead
Mastication’s gone mobile, with bits and bytes taking their place alongside actual bites. As shown in the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker, a...
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2.4KSpeed Thrills When It Comes To Faster Payments
In the age of commerce that is always on, across borders and across currencies, in an age where the side hustle has...
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2.1KMobile Means Much To CU Customers (Especially Younger Ones)
The old guard gives way to the new. The in-branch banking visits give way to mobile transactions, where people may never meet...
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1.8KTraveling A Tech Road for Better T&E Management
Beating the paper chase remains an elusive goal, but one that is devoutly pursued by firms of all sizes – especially when...
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2.4KTaking New Approaches To Onboarding Security
Businesses are facing greater pressure to provide robust, digital know your customer (KYC) checks and other security measures amid increased interest in...
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2.7KTaking Digital Authentication To The Next Level
Gaming companies are taking digital authentication to the next level. Smart agents are rising to bring better customer service and fraud prevention to financial institutions (FI)...
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4.6KThe Global Influence Of PSD2
The Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is impacting the use of data for business and consumers around the globe, and the European eCommerce industry could be...
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2.4KThe Latest Advances In Payments And Fraud Prevention
Point-of-sale financing just got a big boost via an acquisition that could lead to more payment synergies down the road. Meanwhile, the new...
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2.5KNext Steps In Payments And Privacy
As the Internet of Things expands, new questions are emerging about consumer privacy. New thinking, meanwhile, is evolving around the use of...
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2.9KDigital Dangers And Solutions
There’s a double-barreled threat pointed toward financial institutions, and now warnings are increasing about shadow banking. Meanwhile, there are moves afoot to...
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2.2KCost, Convenience And Collaboration: Three Cs Of Modern Commerce
Consumers in the digital era want it both ways: In one context, they want to do it all for themselves and act...
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3.0KBoosting The Good Growth And Killing The Weeds
As flowers are blooming in real gardens for spring, innovative ideas are blooming metaphorical gardens in payments and commerce. Things are getting...
