March 18, 2015
Microsoft CEO Declares The Dawn of B2B SaaS
Software-as-a-Service can no longer be ignored in the business community. The expansion of global operations means corporations must do international procurement, meaning digital payments, communications, data analysis and other management...
March 16, 2015
How Forter Is Fighting Cybercrime
A psychologist, a criminologist and a biologist walk in to a cybersecurity firm reads at first like the setup of an extremely conceptual joke. It is not. It is, however,...
March 10, 2015
Cook: Apple Watch Poised To Propel Apple Pay
Apple’s “Spring Forward” event yesterday (March 9) provided more than just a dose of promotional jargon for its new lineup of products like the gold Macbook and Apple Watch. Instead,...
February 09, 2015
Palantir Adds Retail Shopping Data With FancyThat Purchase
Law enforcement contracts, financial research, health care innovation, and now…shopping? Palantir has purchased omnichannel strategy consultant FancyThat, adding retail and shopping data to its growing analytics portfolio, TechCrunch reported. While the exact...
January 29, 2015
Redefining ‘Integrated Payments’ At The POS
Some thirty years ago, what made Datacap Systems, Inc. unique was that it was first to bring integrated payments into cash register technology. Now, as POS technology has evolved, the...
January 25, 2015
US: Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics moving toward open sourcing
Microsoft has agreed to acquire open-source software company Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is best known for offering developer tools for use with the R language. By bringing Revolution into the...
January 19, 2015
Will Consumers Adopt A Digital Financial Conscience?
What’s wrong with a consumer who eats lunch out every day, prefers Starbucks to the office Keurig coffee machine and splurges on Uber instead of public transportation? Maybe nothing. But...
January 10, 2015
How Merchants Plan To Turn Good Ideas Into Best Practices
Starting today, scores of merchants, technologists, financiers, analysts, journalists and all-around retail enthusiasts descend on Manhattan for “Retail’s Big Show” – NRF’s annual event. By the looks of the agenda,...
December 12, 2014
Startup Snags $2M to Predict Consumer Behavior
Predictive analytics startup Framed Data has raised $2 million in new seed funding, just months after adding features that predict when a mobile app’s user will be willing to pay...
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.
Forty-six percent of FIs say the fraud risks of providing open banking outweigh the benefits, but the share of skeptics rises to 57% among FIs that experienced increased fraud. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 200 FI execs, “How Fraud Fears Impact FIs’ Adoption of Faster Payment Solutions,” a collaboration with Hawk AI, details why FIs are cooling toward open banking but staying the course on real-time payments.