March 27, 2024
Dwolla Taps MX for Account Verification, Aggregation Solutions
Dwolla has expanded its partnership with MX Technologies to help enterprises manage money movement. The company’s recently launched open banking services include bank verification and balance check capabilities powered by MX’s instant account...
March 27, 2024
Dashbot Integrates With Amazon Lex, Enhancing Conversational Analytics
Making chatbots for commerce could get easier thanks to a partnership between Amazon and Dashbot. Dashbot, a leading provider of conversational analytics tools, recently announced integration with Amazon Lex, the natural language...
March 27, 2024
Credit Card Rewards Under Threat as Visa, Mastercard Settlement Impacts...
Global payment giants Visa and Mastercard have reached a significant antitrust settlement with US retailers. This agreement, announced on Tuesday, March 26, is poised to have far-reaching consequences, potentially reshaping...
March 27, 2024
Consumer Confidence Wanes for Paycheck-to-Paycheck Economy
Consumers are eyeing higher inflation on the horizon, as the latest data from the government shows, and a key demographic of the paycheck-to-paycheck economy is feeling less than sanguine about...
March 27, 2024
CFPB’s Credit Card Rewards Scrutiny Threatens a Perk Consumers Really...
Consumers like credit card rewards — that’s a truism borne out by PYMNTS Intelligence research. And it may be the case that scrutiny — and perhaps new rules — from...
March 27, 2024
Antitrust Chronicle® – Real Estate & Antitrust
Dear Readers, In terms of consumer welfare, few sectors are as important as real estate. Unlike transient trends, real estate’s significance transcends economic cycles. Indeed, shelter lies at the base...
March 27, 2024
Systematic National Evidence of Steering by Real Estate Agents
Policymakers have long worried that real estate agents steer their buyer clients away from properties that pay buyer agents low commissions. They consider commission-based steering a key reason why U.S....
March 27, 2024
Real Estate Commissions: Some Insights from the Economics of Multi-Sided...
The real estate industry has long been scrutinized by regulatory agencies for various practices. Recent investigations and lawsuits have focused on the structure of real estate commissions in which a...
March 27, 2024
New Ideas for Promoting Real Estate Brokerage Price Competition
A prohibition against residential real estate listing agents setting the fees collected by buyer agents, as appears likely, will take a big step towards introducing price competition into the market...
