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3.5KFive At Five: A New CEO For Lowe’s
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories take a...
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4.4KFive At Five: Saks Hits A Retail Reset
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories include a look...
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2.0KFive At Five: Alibaba Makes A Move In South Asia
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories focus on...
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3.1KFive At Five: Walmart Wins A Majority Stake In Flipkart
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include Walmart’s...
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8.0KMobile Wallets Change Names To Up Adoption, Usage
What’s in a name? Some of the world’s largest mobile wallet players have changed course in an effort to change their luck with...
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5.5KUber Self-Driving Cars Form Union
Rideshare giant Uber is known just as well for its penchant for stirring up controversy as it is for its game-changing service. But...
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5.4KAmazon Adds ‘Petlexa’ Functionality
Pets are people, too. Well, at least as far as Alexa’s concerned. Amazon recently announced a new “Petlexa” feature available on all...
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4.7KTurns Out Millennials Are Just Like Everyone Else
In a stunning turn of events, new research indicates that millennials — the generation every brand, retailer and payment provider is trying...
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5.2KWayfair Announces Sofia, World’s First Smart Sofa
Everyone’s getting in the voice-activated AI assistant game. Apple has Siri, Amazon has Alexa and Samsung rolled out Bixby. Today, online home...
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5.5KAlexa Achieves Self-Awareness After Rebrand Attempt
Many in the tech world expected this day would come — though few expected that artificial intelligence would become self-aware so soon...
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7.2KCFPB Revamps Structure, Debuts ‘Celebrity Director’ At Trump’s Urging
In an effort to make everyone happy, the CFPB has taken a page from the Donald Trump show business canon. “In effect,...
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7.5KApple Pay Introduces The ‘Cry’ Feature
On the heels of the latest round of mobile wallet adoption numbers and the findings that 19 out of every 20 consumers with...
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9.6KBreaking News: The Kardashians Buy Sears
You’ve heard of the “softer side” of Sears — but what about the “selfie side” of Sears? It seems within the next several...
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2.2KSamsung Wants To Pass On Paying For Note 7 Fire Damage
In fairness to Samsung, if your flagship product has started spontaneously combusting, required two recalls of millions of phones and cost you billions...
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2.9KChina’s $4.5B Shadow Bank Crackdown
China has busted a shadow banking network, reports said Wednesday (Nov. 25), amid efforts of major crackdowns on the underground market that...
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U.S. Bank Brings E-Billing To SMEs
The nation’s fifth largest bank has reportedly chosen an electronic payments and billing service provider to extend these services to its business...
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2.0KWhat The 401(K) Could Mean For SMEs
The concept of alternative lending can mean many different things. It’s a market that encapsulates peer-to-peer financing, crowdsourcing an online loan shopping,...
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1.4KIndia’s Big Bank Pairs With SnapDeal And PayPal
The success of a bank’s business client is imperative for the survival not only of that business, but of the bank, too....
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Amazon Priming Merchants To Bring More To Prime
Amazon is working with merchants to boost the number of Prime-eligible offerings not distributed by the eCommerce giant. Re/code reported last week...
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Intuit Tells Accountants To Get Alt-Lending Savvy
If accountants want to most effectively serve their small business customers, they must not ignore the alternative lending industry. That’s the takeaway...
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Ripple Labs Faces Fines From FinCEN
Ripple Labs has become the first virtual currency exchanger to face fines from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), according to a press...
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Mobile Payments’ Retail Investment And The Value Chain
Every payments executive with a mobile payments app that he/she wants to put in market wants to know the answer to the...
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2.0KEurope’s Answer To Silicon Valley
After decades of tech dominance in California’s Silicon Valley – particularly by firms like Google and Facebook – it seems Europe is...
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Data Breach Notification Legislation Moves Forward
The controversial data breach notification legislation made its way past the committee level yesterday (April 15) when the House Energy and Commerce Committee...
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6.5KFraudsters Automating Fake EMV Chip Transactions
It’s not just retailers who are struggling with technical issues involved in the transition to EMV chip payment cards. Some card-issuing U.S....
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MasterCard Launches MasterPhones To Make The World Digital
Eighty-five percent of the world’s transactions may still be in cash, but if MasterCard has its say, 100 percent of them will...
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Pay With ‘Cheers’ Through Social Messaging App
Can a man sitting at a desk in downtown Boston buy a woman at a Starbucks in Kansas City a cup of...
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Internet Of Things Will Swell To 5.2B Devices By 2020
Businesses need to get on board with the Internet of Things or be left behind, according to a new study from Verizon,...
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Neiman Marcus, Office Depot to Add MasterCard Digital Wallet
MasterCard’s digital wallet MasterPass continues to grow as Mobile Commerce Daily announces that retailers Neiman Marcus and Office Depot will now accept payments from...
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Bill Gates: 2 Billion Mobile Bank Accounts by 2030
Mobile banking is relatively new to the financial scene, and limited to just developed countries with the infrastructure to safely handle transactions,...
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1.3KGoogle Wallet Now Does Auto Reloads
Google has updated is mobile wallet to allow users to add automatic bank transfers into the digital accounts. The company made the...
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1.6KWhy Payments Innovation is a Journey, Not a Destination
“Innovation is not a ‘destination,’ but an ongoing journey to perfection,” says Rahul Mutha, Founder and CEO of Aurus, a global payments...
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1.1KWEX Launches All Roads Card
With the release of the All Road card this week, WEX wants to make it easier for drivers to get all their truck...
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Maricopa County To Use BidSyncy
In a move that will integrate and automate every part of their purchasing cycle, Maricopa County will deploy the BidSync suite of e-procurement...
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3.1KChinese Payments Giants Alibaba And Tencent Are Now Bankers
China’s two biggest online services already have large payments operations — and now both have permission to be bankers, too. On Monday...
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Chinese Payments Giants Alibaba And Tencent Are Now Bankers
China’s two biggest online services already have large payments operations — and now both have permission to be bankers, too. On Monday...
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1.3KWhole Foods Trying One-Hour Delivery
The Whole Foods grocery chain is trialing a one-hour mobile delivery program, where shoppers place their orders on a smartphone, in 15...
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2.8KVisa’s View Of A B2B Future
What do you do when you’re the largest payments company on the planet and every aspect of payments is undergoing huge global...
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1.3KAlibaba Will Open Trading At $68/Share
Alibaba could raise $21.8 million after its huge IPO launched Thursday (Sept. 18) at $68/share. “The price gives the e-commerce company an...
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1.9KEMV Company To Acquire EFT Source
Financial services and EMV card production firm CPI Card Group will acquire EFT Source, Inc., according to an EFT announcement. EFT specializes in...
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1.3KB2B Screen-Printing Industry Gets Boost
Companies that specialize in the embroidery, digital imaging, sign-making and screen-printing industries just got some good news. A new eCommerce site was...
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1.0KTrends Of The Week
Over the past week, PYMNTS.com’s coverage in this newsletter has spanned a broad variety of issues. In this column, we take a...
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Michelin Acquires Brazilian Fleet Management Company
French tire-maker Michelin will pay $600 million to acquire Brazil-based fleet management and freight security company Sascar, reports the Global Post “The...
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1.5KMobile Payments Start-up Yoyo Looks into Campus Opportunities
The start-up is hoping to use universities to attract retailers.
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Are Prepaid Cards the Future of Personal Financial Management?
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1.3KUAE Promotes SMEs
In the UAE, a new law grants SMEs exemptions from customs tax for equipment, raw materials and goods for production purposes. It...
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