January 28, 2016
Google’s Next Play: Facial Recognition Smartphones
Four digit, PIN-based passwords might soon be a thing of past on Android phones, as Google is developing its facial recognition technology to authenticate users and grant access. The company is...
January 27, 2016
5miles Raises $30M In Fight Against Craigslist
Despite all the advances that have been made surrounding on-demand deliveries and last-mile fulfillment, customers who want to search their own neighborhoods for goods their peers don’t want are still...
January 24, 2016
LendUp Raises $150M To Serve Financially Underserved
LendUp has raised $150 million in Series B funding to expand its product reach and credit facility. “Over the last two years we’ve been growing rapidly by increasing the number of...
January 18, 2016
IBM Buys Bank Fraud Detection Firm
The October transition to EMV should be all the evidence any observer needs to understand that major brands take financial fraud very seriously. Now, one of the industry’s most powerful...
January 15, 2016
B2B Fundraising (Finally) Has A Good Week
It’s been a while, but B2B financial services has finally seen a hefty dose of action from venture capitalists. Small business funders, Software-as-a-Service providers, enterprise resource planners and eProcurement players...
January 13, 2016
The Science Of Fighting Fraud
A psychologist, biologist, anthropologist and physicist walks into a high tech cybersecurity firm…. Seriously. Psychologists, biologists, anthropologists and physicists are among the six or seven profiles who fraud technology...
January 13, 2016
How One Cybersecurity Startup Knows Who’ll Be Breached
QuadMetrics is taking an offensive approach to fighting cybercrime. The cybersecurity firm says it can predict the likelihood that a company will become the victim of a data breach with...
January 12, 2016
Innovation Starts By Deciding What Not To Do
Meet Dan Frechtling, SVP of Marketing & Chief Product Officer at G2 Web Services. According to Frechtling, the hardest part of innovation isn’t deciding what to do, it’s deciding what...
January 11, 2016
Bridging 2015 To 2016 With Numbers
Analysts have yet to exhaust their forecasting efforts, gazing into crystal balls to assess where 2016 will lead. In FinTech, that means taking a look at the data from 2015,...
With more than two-thirds of CFOs citing payment delays as a problem for their firms in the last six months, nine in 10 companies wish to expand their investment in AR automation to accelerate order processing, reduce invoicing errors and expedite payments. In the “Working Capital Tracker®,” a collaboration with Billtrust, PYMNTS Intelligence explains why the demand for AR automation is growing and what’s at stake for companies that opt out of this trend.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand