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3.1KNewsIntuit’s Credit Karma Deal, Buy Buttons, Restaurant Apps Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest...
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1.8KInternationalChina’s Halting Return To Work Signals US Supply Chain Headwinds
In a way, it’s a strange reminder of the 80/20 rule. You know the one – it’s the Pareto rule, where 80...
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1.2KSizzle/FizzleBig Sizzle: Gaming And Social Networks, Thriving In The Age Of The Coronavirus
In the age of the Coronavirus, amid supply chain disruptions and workers being sent home, there’s still the need for human contact,...
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1.1KRestaurant innovationMobile Order-Ahead Feeds Restaurant Sector
“I don’t know. What do you feel like eating?” That ping-ponging Q&A session often seems like a riddle designed to make hungry...
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1.2KeCommerce2020 Buy Button Report: Some Use Cases Pushing It
When eBay first introduced the “buy it now” button way back in Y2K, it was designed for the impatient online shopper who...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsSoutheast Asia Tips The B2B FinTech Funding Scales
With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsAP Automation Braces For Open Banking, Globalization
As B2B FinTech firms continue working to break down silos, and ease the numerous friction points of the B2B payments process for...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsHow Bookkeeping Capitalizes On Young, Digital-First SMBs
An entrepreneur who opens a coffee shop or launches a FinTech startup isn’t in business to crunch numbers and file taxes. Yet,...
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989Fraud PreventionDropbox’s Three-Pronged Defense Against Digital Fraud
Cloud hosting platforms are charged with storing and protecting vast troves of valuable personal and company information, making them tempting targets for...
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1.9KRetailRestaurant Business Serves Up Mixed Plate For 2020
The restaurant business is: a) healthy for 2020 or b) apprehensive about technology. All of the above. The 2020 outlook report from...
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3.4KRetailLowe’s Goes For Major eCommerce Makeover
When its website went down for a few hours on Black Friday 2018, it was an online disappointment for home improvement titan...
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2.8KGig EconomyHow The Gig Economy Has Evolved Over The Last Decade
A quick glance at the workforce of 2020 doesn’t immediately present itself as all that different from the workforce of the year...
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1.5KUnattended Retail7-Eleven And Amazon Step Up Automated Store Tech
Cashierless technology is finally hinting at a mainstream rollout, with 7-Eleven’s announcement that it is piloting a cashierless store, taking a cue...
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1.4KDebtSenior Debt Has Spiked 543 Pct Over The Last Two Decades
Stories about Americans’ increasing debt load have become something of a recurring theme in financial reporting. About two weeks ago, U.S. credit card...
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1.1KEconomyUS Consumers Remain Resilient Despite Q4 GDP Revisions
One of the most enduring stories of the record economic expansion that has marked the past decade has been the resilience of...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsCoronavirus’s Potential To Change Healthcare Supply Chains Forever
Hand sanitizer shortages. Face mask counterfeiting. And some of the most dramatic disruptions in supply chains around the world. The coronavirus continues...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsWhat Open Banking Means For China, Challenger Banks And SMBs
Small businesses continue to embrace digital banking. At the same time, digital banks are looking to capitalize on their growing small and...
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927EarningsEtsy Delights Investors With Earnings Win, Disgruntles Sellers With Advertising Fees
It turned out to be a surprisingly strong quarter for online craft marketplace Etsy. Net income came in at $31.3 million, or...
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3.1KSMBsGrab: How Alt Data Is Closing Southeast Asia’s $175B SMB Credit Gap
It’s no accident that technology companies that have historically not operated in the financial services space are expanding into the small business...
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2.3KUnattended RetailUSAT: Bridging The ‘Consumer Gap’ In Unattended Retail
Mind the gap, as the saying goes. In this case, it’s the gap between interest and intent, the chasm that lies between consumer...
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1.7KEarningsUpwork Reports 14.6 Pct Take Rate As It Makes Changes To Virtual Tokens
Upwork saw strong adoption of its new paid client subscription plans, made changes to the virtual tokens used by freelancers when submitting...
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2.2KEarningsSquare Cash App Users Grow 60 Pct YOY
Square has posted Q4 earnings results, showing continued evolution from the firm’s roots 11 years ago as a point-of-sale payments processor with on-site...
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3.3KInternational5G Plans Face Setbacks Amid Coronavirus Spread
The coronavirus has already dented supply chains — notably those that serve retailers and auto manufacturers, among others. Digging a bit deeper...
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1.9KSubscriptionsGrubhub Subscription Service Aimed At Boosting Slumping Market Share
Grubhub’s 2020 start has been a bit bumpy thus far — it was passed by DoorDash in late January in terms of...
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3.8KReal EstateCustomer Experience Surpasses Brand, Price
This is the year that customer experience surpasses brand and price as the most important factor in retail, according to several studies,...
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1.8KPayments InnovationWill Bird’s Payment Plans Take Flight?
(Warning: This article contains puns aplenty, fowl indeed). Bird, the scooter company, may ruffle some feathers in the very cities and locations...
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1.6KRetailAs Gap Joins thredUP, Resale Continues Its Momentum
The resale market is turning out to be one of the hottest trends of the young new year. After Nordstrom and Macy’s...
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1.1KRegulationNavigating China’s New Regulatory Terrain
What happened to the good old days of, like, two years ago? Back then, FinTechs asked for forgiveness instead of permission, rushing...
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1.2KVoice ActivationThe Voice Assistant Wars Shift To Gaming
From a playing field that was nearly empty five years, the world of voice-activated personal assistants has filled up and rounded out...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsAccounts Receivable Innovations Ease AP Pain
More and more, B2B payment solutions are focusing less on single end-points of friction, and more on the overall picture of how...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsCommercial Cards Round Out B2B Financial Services
As more financial service providers explore how to capitalize on corporates’ growing adoption of commercial cards, firms are looking at the card...
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4.0KMastercardMastercard’s Incoming CEO’s Take On The Future Of Payments
A big change is coming to Mastercard, which will soon be marking the end of an era as its longtime CEO Ajay...
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1.9KBig DataReading Predictive Tea Leaves With Smart, Big Data
The old adage that a butterfly flaps its wings and causes a hurricane is especially apt in business. After all, ripple effects...
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1.9KDeliveryKraft Heinz’s Evolv: Backing Micro-Fulfillment’s Evolution At The Grocery
Much of the transition from physical to digital — and the leap into eCommerce — comes down to fulfillment. In the age...
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2.7KInnovationSWIFT: The Road To ISO 20022 Adoption
PYMNTS recently spoke with Saqib Sheikh, global head of SWIFT’s ISO 20022 program, to learn more about SWIFT’s commitment to assist the...
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1.4KRetailFifth Wall Invites eComm Pure Plays To The Mall
Mall landlords strike again. In a good way, of course, as alt-VC firm Fifth Wall closes on a $100 million fund to...
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1.6KDigital BankingDigital Banking Apps Vs The Establishment
Dubbed “challenger banks” for shaking up the status quo of banking as we’ve always known it, digital banks with awesome apps are...
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1.8KEarningsMacy’s Touts A Turnaround After Q4 Earnings Beat
After four consecutive quarters of progressively declining results, Macy’s managed to surprise the markets on Tuesday (Feb. 25) with an unexpected beat...
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1.7KRetailPrivacy And Personalization Clash For Retailers
Retailers are facing a personalization paradox. Recent studies are showing counter trends right now that are proving the adage that consumers want...
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1.7KRetailWill Giving Brands A Voice Boost Conversation Commerce?
While the concept of a brand having a “voice” is not a terribly new idea, before this month it was more metaphorical...
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1.4KRetailDelivering QSR Ordering Options With Digital Collaborations
Quick-service restaurants are teaming with online platforms to let diners receive their favorite menu items via delivery. Krispy Kreme, in one case, plans...
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1.4KRetailEasing Funeral Planning Into The Digital Age
Entrepreneur Steve Jobs once said: “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die...
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1.7KDigital BankingMobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts
Banks and legacy financial institutions (FIs) might be wise to study what disruptive technologies recently did to the print publishing industry, taxi...
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1.1KMobile Order AheadHow P.F. Chang’s Keeps Its App Offerings Safe And Secure
While third-party delivery apps can boost sales and name recognition, many restaurants are eschewing them in favor of proprietary apps. This switch...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsWhat New Payment Rails Miss About Solving B2B’s Remittance Challenge
B2B payments’ innovation trajectory continues to accelerate as more end-point solutions emerge to improve the vast number of friction points in the...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsNew Corporate Payment Tricks For Old Rails
This week’s look at the latest in payment rail innovation finds solution providers largely embracing the opportunity to develop new technologies for...
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1.7KInternationalWhy Global Citizens Need Credit Passports
When one has a credit history, it is easy to overlook if it’s working as intended, as it is a fairly invisible...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsTipalti CEO Looks Back At A Decade Of Global AP Friction
Business-facing FinTechs have trailed behind innovation-targeting consumers – so looking back a decade ago, at the mere early rumbles of an eventual...
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1.7KMobileHow CaaS Platforms Are Changing How People And Businesses Communicate
The world of 1997 may not initially present itself as a radically different place from today, but a stroll down memory lane...
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3.6KInternationalCOVID-19 Batters $2.5T Trade Show Events Industry
Despite the best efforts by health workers around the world, the coronavirus continues to spread in terms of cases, fatalities and nations...
