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Startup Check-InModo: Interoperability Powers The Three Cs In Payouts
As noted in last week’s PYMNTS Gig Economy Index, 35 percent of today’s workforce participates in the gig economy, and that number...
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Startup Check-InEmailage: Partnerships Are Key To FinServ Growth
A few years back, when Emailage was one of the first companies to talk about the importance of the email layer in risk...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems: Time To Replace Outdated RDC
Legacy systems can be a problem across the board in the payments industry, and corporate deposits are no different. Many of the...
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Startup Check-InAvidXchange: Automating HOA Payables Is Harder Than It Sounds
In the homeowners’ association (HOA) vertical, more than 70 percent of property vendor payments are still made via paper check. Granted, it’s...
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Startup Check-InHow Automation Can Help With FATCA Compliance
Validating tax information to comply with the IRS: sounds like a no-brainer, something every business and finance organization would simply take for...
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Startup Check-InThe Dollars And Sense Of Automation
Many organizations have recognized the value of automation for delivering cost savings, but not all of them have realized that it also...
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Startup Check-InHow India Will Leapfrog Plastic Payments
Three decades ago, there were 25 million credit cards in use across the Indian subcontinent, despite it being one of the world’s...
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Startup Check-InAmaryllis Makes TRANSACT 18 Impact
Startup Amaryllis made an appearance at TRANSACT 18 in Las Vegas April 16 through 19 – the company’s first 10-by-10 booth at...
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Startup Check-InWhat It Takes To Scale A Lifestyle Banking Bot
Lifestyle banking, including conversational banking components across web, mobile, messaging and voice channels, could be the wave of the future when it...
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Startup Check-InAutomating The Counterfeit Crackdown
A growing online marketplace introduces a growing set of challenges for those who manage it. As the number of SKUs available on...
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Startup Check-InChief Growth Officer To Serve As Ringmaster For AvidXchange
Growing fast can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it’s a sure sign a company is doing something right. On...
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Startup Check-InWhat To Do When The Fraud Call Comes From Inside The House
In the age of data breaches, there’s a lot of talk and tools emerging in the fraud prevention and risk mitigation spaces,...
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Startup Check-InNXT-ID And FitPay Are Making eWallets A True Wallet Replacement
Startups FitPay and NXT-ID are working to take eWallets to the next level. Existing smartphone-based eWallets may have achieved the ultimate convenience,...
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Startup Check-InCascade: What’s In A Wearable?
Wearables aren’t just smartwatches anymore. They’re keychains, rings, wristbands, coins — anything that can accommodate a chip. Furthermore, it’s no longer enough...
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Startup Check-InSwitch, Gateway Or Hub? All And None Of The Above
For startups, it’s never easy explaining when they’re doing something the same yet different. The payments industry already has switches, gateways and...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems Is Building The Twitter Of Accounts Receivable
The year is 2018, and social media platforms like Twitter are now influencing the way businesses handle accounts receivable. With its 280-character...
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Startup Check-InEmailage Rides Out Post-Holiday Rush In Q1
The first quarter can be even more chaotic than the holidays for some companies — or, at least, it brings its own...
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Startup Check-InTipalti Targets Multi-Entity Orgs With NetSuite Integration
This month, startup Tipalti is celebrating a PO-matching match made in heaven as it integrates with leading cloud ERP provider NetSuite. PO...
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Startup Check-InNanopay CEO On How To Bank Sub-Saharan Africa
A digital fiat currency and government-issued mobile money platform could transform the Sub-Saharan African economy, according to nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke, who recently...
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Startup Check-InDiscover Phase: FitPay Adds Major Payment Network To Platform
FitPay, the startup technology platform that adds contactless payment capabilities to wearable and IoT devices, has announced a partnership with Discover. Co-founders...
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Startup Check-InSingaporean Startup Jewel Paymentech Cracks The Japanese Market
Jewel Paymentech has forged a capital alliance with Japan’s largest payment processor, GMO Japan, which will be leading the startup’s Series A+...
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Startup Check-InModo Has Its Head In The Cloud
It’s the calm before the storm for Modo Payments, according to the startup’s Founder and CEO, Bruce Parker. It’s everything his startup...
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Startup Check-InFoundation Is Laid, Momentum Kicks In For Amaryllis
There comes a time in every startup’s life when momentum kicks in and everything becomes a whirlwind of activity. Or maybe that’s...
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Startup Check-InCascade To Power Crypto Card Loading
This time last year, if a customer asked Cascade about cryptocurrency loading, the startup had to tell them, “We don’t do that.”...
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Startup Check-InChargeback Automation Is An Opportunity For Scale
Businesses that hope to make 2018 a big growth year must start by asking themselves: “Which of my business operations are non-scalable?”...
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Startup Check-InFraud Is Everywhere, So Emailage Must Be, Too
Startup Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as it did in the previous year. Content marketing manager Chad...
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Startup Check-InDadeSystems Serves Banks By Serving Their Corporate Customers
Integrated receivables are a concept that many bank customers are now considering as they look to consolidate all their payment streams, whether...
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Freelancer Payment Satisfaction Drives Loyalty
Three quarters of freelancers said they would leave their current marketplace due to payment dissatisfaction. That’s according to a recent survey by...
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Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation
The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing...
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Startup Check-InFitPay Launches Contactless Payment Bitcoin Coin
What if bitcoin were actually a coin? FitPay has made it one. Flip, a new contactless payment device that the startup just...
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Startup Check-InNanopay: Just Say No To Cryptos
The irony of cryptocurrency is that, the more mainstream it gets, the less it’s able to do what it was designed to...
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Startup Check-InModo Strikes An Innovation Balance
Payments has a balancing problem, according to Modo CPO Matthew Leavenworth. There are two forces at odds, said Leavenworth: The growth of...
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Startup Check-InJewel Paymentech Takes On Marketplace Counterfeits
Amazon and Alibaba may be the most high-profile eCommerce marketplaces, but they are far from the only ones, especially in smaller international...
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Startup Check-InNew Chargeback Rules No Sweat For Chargehound
April 15, the day that Visa’s new chargeback rules go into effect, has stirred up a lot of anxiety for merchants –...
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Startup Check-InOwn Your Program Management, Own Your Destiny
Being a program manager isn’t easy. Essentially, it means handling everything other than card issuing, authorization and transaction processing. If it’s not...
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Startup Check-InPurchase Order Matching Is A Sign Of Maturity
Not every organization is diligent about matching purchase orders (POs) with invoices when handling supply chain payments and accounts payable (AP). A...
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Startup RoundupStartup Roundup: Changing The Name Of The Game
January is a month of New Year’s resolutions for the masses, and it was no different for these startups, many of which...
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Startup Check-InAmaryllis’s 2018 Resolution: A Year Of Growth
New products, partners, and certifications will pave the path to growth for startup Amaryllis in 2018. CEO Mark Bishopp said it will...
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Startup Check-InThe Secret To Fast Onboarding? Know Who Knows Your Customer
In the old days, Singapore’s retail market was dominated by big corporate merchants with storefronts, whose size, numbers and name-brand recognition made...
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Startup Check-InA Payments And Music Machine And Cryptocurrency Dreams
Smartwatches are getting smarter. Instead of linking to the user’s phone to power GPS, fitness tracking, music and payments, this one houses...