P2P lenders in the consumer and business lending industry have seen incredible growth in the last two years, providing more than $780 million to these borrowers through marketplace lending platforms, according to reports in the Financial Times this week. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Bitcoin has inspired yet another technology that has some in the investor world worried that it will be used for the one thing bitcoin is commonly associated with: criminal activity. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
While most of the social mediaverse was buzzing about Apple and entertainment this week, the real action may have been more quietly unfolding on the enterprise serving side of the business. Apple is moving past its purely consumer serving roots - and looking to tap...
Another month, another round of mixed retail results, according to RetailNext’s latest Physical Retail Pulse report. 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...
Does “Bite the Wax Tadpole” sound like a refreshing soda to you? It didn’t for consumers in China, where (in some areas) that name was once the translation of “Coca-Cola”. That company learned a lesson -- as many others continue to do -- that, for...
For those who might find gift cards to be impersonal, change is on the horizon. Seth Barnes, Head of Marketing at United Online, shared with PYMNTS the vision for the new mobile gift card app Swappable, and how the technology behind it could subvert perceptions...
“What really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else’s,” Oprah Winfrey noted in her 2009 commencement remarks at Duke. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
As the U.K. continues its struggle to tackle an ongoing late payments problem, major corporations are signing the voluntary Prompt Payment Code, a government-backed initiative whose signatories vow to pay their suppliers on time. The code, however, is largely without a method of enforcement, and...
Earlier this year, EU officials praised the Philippines for its ability to successfully implement a digital procurement strategy. The Asian nation’s Budget Secretary Florencio Abad spearheaded the initiative known as PhilGEPS, or the Philippines Government Electronic Procurement System, as a way to encourage foreign investment...
