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B2B Payments
Can Multiple Banking Relationships Ruin Cash Flow?
May 07, 2014

Not having standardized payment workflows makes it difficult for many companies with wieldy systems to track their cash flow, according to a new report. Consolidating banking relationships and centralizing the process can save money through greater efficiencies while also reducing the potential for fraud.

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Cardtronics’ Rails Drive New Debit Revenue For Banks
May 07, 2014

What’s the relationship between ATMs and retail? According to Cardtronics CEO Steve Rathgaber during his most recent analyst call, about an 8x increase in monthly consumer debit spend for retailers with ATMs in their stores.

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Making Money In Government Online Payments
May 07, 2014

One of the largest government processors, NIC, has seen its share of ups and downs over the years, as the trials and tribulations of supporting government contracts plays out on their bottom line. Q1 results report that while the company is losing business from one...

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Standing with the Startups
May 06, 2014

This week, the funding gods smiled on innovators who are reinventing the ways in which consumers borrow, merchants acquire customers, and issuers keep cardholder data safe. Find out who got what and how much.

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Because We’re Happy
May 05, 2014

Confidence among consumers globally is increasing to a point not seen since before the Great Recession, according to a recent Nielsen report. What makes consumers around the world so happy? Find out more.

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Mother’s Day Spending, Trillions of Dollars in Credit Card Processing, Privacy-Flexible Consumers…And Other Friday Factoids
May 02, 2014

Do you know… how many tens of millions of dollars Americans will spend on Mother’s Day this year? How many consumers will exchange personal information for a good deal? How many trillions of dollars the credit card industry will process this year? If not, keep...

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Green Light For Green Dot’s Q1 Performance
May 01, 2014

Who didn’t feel the brunt of the brutal winter? Well Green Dot did, but not enough to jar Q1 results. An unexpected one-time revenue event, plus a bump on active cards and purchase volume gave investors something to smile about.

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Cards, Regulation and Small Business Financing
April 30, 2014

Thirty percent of SMBs leverage business credit cards to finance their businesses. But the rules and regulations related to interest rates and APRs that protect consumers’ don’t apply to corporate cards. The result is a potentially devastating impact on the ability of SMBs to access...

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VersaPay Brings eInvoicing to Heartland Clients
April 29, 2014

eInvoice - 1, USPS - 0. The efficient distribution of eInvoicing solutions to SMBs just got a whole lot easier thanks to a VersaPay/Heartland deal to target small and midsize companies that still generate paper-based invoicing and stick them in the mail.