November 26, 2015
Giving Thanks, The B2B Payments Way
We’re all thankful for something this holiday season, but for those in the world of B2B payments, giving thanks isn’t your typical turkey-and-stuffing event. PYMNTS asked Bob Solomon, CEO of...
November 25, 2015
Dell Malware Flaw Exposes Eavesdropping Risk
Some people go to great lengths to secure their digital identities, spending hundreds of dollars on anti-spyware software and avoiding any site that might look the least bit suspicious. However,...
November 24, 2015
Why Big Data Isn’t Necessarily Smart Data
Analytics has become a religion of sort among the savvy and sophisticated in tech and finance — with a central belief that any information is accessible if we just figure...
November 12, 2015
CircleUp Raises $30M To Build Product, Data Side
Crowdfunding platform CircleUp, which connects accredited investors with food-focused retail businesses, announced it has raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Collaborative Fund. The San Francisco, CA-based startup facilitates the interaction...
November 10, 2015
FinTech’s Not Afraid Of The Big Bad Blockchain
Last week, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde spoke at a banking conference in New York and told financial players throughout the globe not to be afraid of the...
November 09, 2015
Small Business Credit, Squeezed Suppliers And Blockchain Blockbusters
The statistics from last week come bearing more bad news for small businesses, but this time, the data may signal how that bad news will have a spillover effect on...
October 22, 2015
Wenig Says eBay Doesn’t Want To Be Like Anyone Else
In the crowded marketplace of marketplaces where the headlines are increasingly dominated by Amazon and Alibaba, it’s easy to start comparing what appears to be apples to apples. But as eBay...
October 20, 2015
Red Hot Valuations Contribute To Tech IPO Freeze
Creating hype is easy. Silicon Valley has evolved a rather sophisticated machine to help you do so. But living up to that hype on IPO day, well, that is shaking...
October 15, 2015
Dynamic Pricing For All, Not Just Online
Retailers have always worked on a sliding schedule: release a product, wait a few months, check the sales data to measure performance and adjust prices accordingly. In the age before...
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