July 14, 2015
Signifyd Banks $7M To Grow eCommerce Fraud Platform
Signifyd, the California-based company that provides fraud protection to businesses in the eCommerce space, said Monday (July 13) that it had raised $7 million in Series A financing. In the...
July 14, 2015
Filling The Gaps With Big Data For SMEs Without Credit...
ZestFinance sits at the intersection of “Big Data” and machine learning, a two-pronged approach the company says can help determine the creditworthiness of the unbanked – and which the company...
July 09, 2015
How Much Do Smartphone Users Bank In The Bedroom?
How much are consumers really addicted to their smartphones? Well, when it comes to mobile banking, the answer is quite addicted. A new Harris Poll released by Feedzai — a data...
July 07, 2015
Ferreting Out Suppliers’ “Dirty Little Secrets”
Three separate events last week reminded me that every spend category has its “dirty little secrets.” Suppliers can exploit these “dirty little secrets” to squeeze a little more from buyers...
July 01, 2015
How Distil Battles Bots Without Bothering Buyers
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]It happens to every Internet user at least once. The day she’s asked to type a simple combination of letters and numbers into a window to...
June 29, 2015
Alibaba Rival Launches Credit Service With ZestFinance
JD.com has soundly secured the second place spot in China’s eCommerce market behind Alibaba, but now it wants to take on the eCommerce giant in another industry: credit scoring. JD.com...
June 24, 2015
App Engagement The New Frontier For Customer Experience?
More than 1 trillion push notifications were sent to mobile devices by developers and publishers in 2014, solidifying the importance of app engagement when trying to reach mobile users, VentureBeat...
June 16, 2015
DoorDash Jumps Into LA Grocery Delivery
On-demand food delivery service DoorDash has expanded its offerings for customers in the Los Angeles area, Re/code reported late last week. The startup is now delivering groceries from Whole Foods...
May 25, 2015
The Essential (PYMNTS) Summer Reading List
Thirty-two movies will be released this summer of 2015, making it one of the most prolific summer movie seasons ever. Here at PYMNTS.com, we’d like to think that Hollywood isn’t...
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