CEO SERIES

Visa And Marqeta To Transform Global Card Issuance
Visa And Marqeta To Transform Global Card Issuance
July 26, 2017  |  Partnerships

If the payments landscape is marked by entrenched players partnering with smaller firms making their mark in digital payments, add one more deal to the...

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Affirm Challenges Retailers, FIs To Practice ’Honest Finance‘
Affirm Challenges Retailers, FIs To Practice ’Honest Finance‘
July 21, 2017  |  Alternative Credit

“Finance is pretty broken.” So started Affirm’s Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin’s remarks at his firm’s first-ever AFFIRMation conference for its retail partners in San...

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Diving Deeper Than Machine Learning To Combat Corporate Cyberattacks
Diving Deeper Than Machine Learning To Combat Corporate Cyberattacks
July 20, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Machine learning is perhaps the hottest buzzword in cybersecurity today. The artificial intelligence technology is deployed by cybersecurity firms in an effort to keep pace...

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Unifund CEO Consumer Credit Caution: “Time To Stop Getting Lost In The Averages”
Unifund CEO Consumer Credit Caution: “Time To Stop Getting Lost In The Averages”
July 19, 2017  |  Financial Inclusion

Credit, and the consumer’s relationship with it, has changed rather dramatically over time. But those changes can only be seen if one takes a big...

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FreshBooks Lands Fresh Funding As SME Accounting Complexities Mount
FreshBooks Lands Fresh Funding As SME Accounting Complexities Mount
July 18, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Between SMEs and gig economy workers, entrepreneurs are big business for the U.S. economy. That means accounting software for these professionals is big business, too,...

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Urban FT Acquires iParse To Bridge The Mobile Banking Gap
Urban FT Acquires iParse To Bridge The Mobile Banking Gap
July 18, 2017  |  Banking

When it comes to mobile banking, there’s often a massive gap between the consumer’s experience with a big bank and with a smaller regional operator...

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UpKeep Helps Facilities Maintenance Go Digital
UpKeep Helps Facilities Maintenance Go Digital
July 14, 2017  |  Gig Economy

Some innovative entrepreneurs are just born that way. They were the kids who founded lemonade stands before they could count or make lemonade by themselves and who dropped...

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For Consumers, Trust(Arc) And Verify
For Consumers, Trust(Arc) And Verify
July 12, 2017  |  CEO Series

Wary of connected commerce — but nonetheless excited about IoT — consumers are conflicted about the tradeoff between privacy and security. In an interview with...

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Making Connected Car Data Monetizable
Making Connected Car Data Monetizable
July 12, 2017  |  Big Data

The average car generates gigabytes of data already — between the engine, infotainment and other computerized systems. And that is only today — before the addition of...

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