January 09, 2016
Why Fitbit’s Troubles Could Give Payments Peeps Pause
Fitbit is not having the best imaginable week. The good news about that is that there are very few players who might view last week as one of the best...
December 30, 2015
The Harmony Of Humans And Machines To Mitigate Risk
Small business financial service providers are beginning to realize the value in linking their business customers to lending services. PayPal launched its Working Capital unit in 2013, for example, while...
December 28, 2015
The Alt-Lender’s 2016 Survival Guide
The U.S. and European alternative lending markets sprouted quickly in 2015, but the Australian players are just planting their roots. One of the latest to do so is Waddle, a...
December 18, 2015
Niche B2B Startups Nab The Cash
More than $127 million in venture capital funneled into B2B startups this past week, and investments were diverse. Alt-lending and logistics landed on the board, but innovators looking to highlight...
December 18, 2015
PayPal On How Mobile Gives Commerce Context
It’s becoming increasingly evident that payments, commerce, tech and mobile are colliding at the intersection of innovation, but how those industries will evolve has yet to be seen. But today’s...
December 11, 2015
TransUnion Acquires eCommerce Fraud Company
In an effort to expand its fraud and identity management offerings, global credit and information management solutions provider TransUnion closed on the $44 million acquisition of Trustev. Ireland-based Trustev supports...
December 08, 2015
Investors Drop $1.2M Into Rippleshot
Fraud analytics firm Rippleshot said Monday (Dec. 7) that it garnered $1.2 million in a bridge round of funding. The investment was led by KGC Capital, alongside other firms, such...
December 01, 2015
The Cybergrinch Who Wants To Steal Christmas
Connected toys are in danger this holiday season -- and so is just about everything that can be bought and sold, thanks to an unprecedentedly powerful strain of POS Malware....
November 27, 2015
Holiday Shopping, Supercomputer Style
For a holiday that was celebrated yesterday by almost everyone universally in some form or other, once you get past certain parts, some surprisingly important details are a little sketchy...
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