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196RetailCars.com Traffic Revs Up With Carmakers’ Super Bowl Ads
The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, but Cars.com is claiming a different kind of victory. Although it didn’t run its...
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499Data DiveData Dive, The Bad, The Worse And The Ugly Edition: Store Closures, Coronavirus And Bitcoin
There was lots to watch in the world of payments and commerce last week, with red flags flown in physical retail, international...
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569RetailFighting The Friction In Retail Returns
Free returns have become something of a standard offering for eCommerce consumers. What better way to compensate for an improperly fitting clothing item...
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489RetailTaking Laundry Off The To-Do List With On-Demand Apps
Everyday chores are a challenge for working parents who have to balance their lives between jobs and families. They spend time away...
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502RetailSocial Shopping Struggles With The Burden Of Potential
2020 just might be the year that the long-awaited social shopping business actually shows up. Ever since Facebook and Google put their...
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433RegulationIn Europe, Single Data Market Looms?
In Europe, another regulatory salvo may be aimed at U.S. tech firms’ dominance across online platforms, and the collection and use of...
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901Digital BankingATMs Are Ahead Of Their Time — Again
The automated teller machine (ATM) debuted 51 years ago in the U.S., dispensing small preset amounts of cash … and that’s about...
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792B2B PaymentsHow HR’s Self-Service Shift Drives Payroll To Unlock Data
As open banking frameworks continue to encourage bank-FinTech collaboration, the financial services market is exploring new ways to unlock data — not...
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651B2B PaymentsReverse Factoring’s Late Payments Controversy
The conversation surrounding late supplier payments is proliferating as new controversies emerge about the impact of reverse financing on supplier payment practices,...
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2.0KRetailSuper Bowl Commerce Preview: Avocados, Spiteful Beer And A $6M Thank-You
The Super Bowl is nearly upon us – the Kansas City Chiefs are headed to their first “big game” in 50 years...
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1.8KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: 150M Prime Members And Super Bowl Commercials Take The Field
The big winner in the headlines race this week was certainly Amazon, which dropped a stronger than expected Q4 earnings report capped...
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1.8KThe WeekenderKobe Bryant, Virtual Cards, Self-Service Technology 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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1.8KBrexitVC Funding Helps UK FinTechs Weather Brexit
Today marks a red letter day in Europe, to be sure. Perhaps especially so for FinTechs across the Pond. Right into Brexit,...
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1.6KSizzle/FizzleBig Fizzle: MoviePass Passes Away
And so it all ends in disappointment, like the umpteenth installment of a Stallone or Schwarzenegger franchise. For MoviePass and its parent...
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1.4KRetailBuilding Micromobility At A Global Scale
The electric scooter and bike race in Washington, D.C. has gotten complicated in the last few months, as the nation’s capital has...
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1.6KRetailMagazines Dive Into Retail Again — This Time With Pot, Fashion And Delivery
Retail and magazines have always had a relationship, mainly through advertising, but also via some other methods over the years. Indeed, during...
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1.6KCredit UnionsGallup: Credit Unions Feel The Love
The notion that credit unions (CUs) play country mouse to their more worldly banking cousins is beyond flawed, as a recent poll...
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1.7KAccounts PayableAP Automation, Virtual Cards And Accounting Nirvana
Smartphones, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual cards. It sounds like a corporate accountant’s dream setup, what with all those spending controls and...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsSmoothing Bumpy Cash Flow For Small Town Governments
Local governments of small towns across America are in a precarious situation. Like small businesses in the private sector, small local governments...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsVisa’s X-Border Investment Leads Week Of B2B Funding
The most high-profile B2B FinTech investment this week went to cross-border payments technology firm Currencycloud, thanks to Visa’s participation in an $80...
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1.4KB2B PaymentsThe Vendor’s Role In AP Automation Adoption
Automating back-office processes has indisputable positive impacts on companies’ ability to promote efficiency and operational cost savings, and even encourage sustainability through...
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3.8KVISAVisa Logs 700M Visa Direct Transactions, Contactless Payments Surge
Visa’s fiscal first-quarter results showed an acceleration of cross-border volumes, while contactless payments continued to gain ground in the U.S. and beyond....
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3.3KEcosystemsUber Pushes Partnerships In Pursuit Of Profits
The Uber ecosystem keeps on growing, and though obstacles always arise – some economic, some regulatory, some driven by other factors –...
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2.4KInternationalGauging The Coronavirus Effect On Supply Chains — And The Last Mile
Production supply chains are likely to feel the impact of the coronavirus as it spreads in China and spreads across borders. As...
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2.1KCommerceSuper Bowl Countdown Brings New Online Gambling Action From Barstool
As the Super Bowl approaches this Sunday — the holy of holies for so many sports fans, even as some baseball nerds...
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1.9KEconomyGDP Data May Hint At Consumer Spending Slowdown
The U.S. economy is still showing growth, yes, but growth is slowing — and may be slowing enough to stir up some...
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1.2KB2B PaymentsPlugging Expense Leaks With Spend Management Solutions
Talk of “friction” in the payments industry is mostly about removing obstacles to consumer transactions, and how easily (or not) those payments...
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1.3KB2B PaymentsSmall Businesses’ Biggest Lease Accounting Pitfalls
New lease accounting standards are in effect for publicly traded companies in the U.S. after the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsUnwrapping APAC’s Faster Payments Fraud Threat
As faster and real-time payment schemes achieve ubiquity in more markets around the globe, speed is increasingly becoming the standard for payers...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsBanks, FinTechs Find New Open-Data Use Cases
Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own...
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2.2KPayments InnovationUnbundling The Travel Bundle
The sharing economy is undergoing a sea change due to Generation Z’s coming of age. Experts expect this generation, which heavily favors...
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1.9KFaster PaymentsThe Link Between FIs, RTP, Data And New Mobile Use Cases
It’s not just the speed of payments that’s important, but also the data that payment operators gain as more consumers use faster...
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1.8KRisk ManagementHow Merchants Navigate Payments Integration Risk
When it comes to payments in commerce, what — and who — you don’t know can hurt you. Underpinning that is the...
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2.0KEarningsPayPal Hits 305M Active Users In Q4, Cautions Future Economic Uncertainty
PayPal put on a strong finish to 2019, managing to beat analyst estimates nearly across the board in terms of revenue, active...
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1.5KEarningsMicrosoft Sees Azure Sales Surge 62 Percent
The digital transformation continues for technology giant Microsoft. The company said on Wednesday night that its fiscal second-quarter earnings grew on the...
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1.2KEarningsMondelēz International Invests In eCommerce, Convenience Growth
As Mondelēz International, Inc. invested in its further growth in non-grocery channels such as eCommerce, discounters and convenience, the confectionary company experienced its...
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2.2KEarningsFacebook Expenses Rise 51 Pct As Regulatory Pressure Increases
Facebook reported a 51 percent spike in its costs and expenses for the full year 2019 — that increase coming as the...
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1.8KInternet of ThingsWhy IoT’s Ball Bearings Need Improving To Keep The Digital Economy Humming
After years of talk and theorizing, the Internet of Things — and that seems to be the label that will stick, at...
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2.2KBankingGoldman Targets $125B In Consumer Deposit Balances In Five Years
Amid the targets for return on equity in the investment banking business, Goldman’s first Investor Day in the wake of a revamped...
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1.7KInnovationAtari Banks On Nostalgia To Drive New Hotel And Gaming Venture
For certain consumers, say “Atari” and some fond — or at least semi-fond — memories will start sparking. Warm remembrances will flow of...
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1.7KEarningsResTech Upgrades Drive Growth For Chili’s Restaurant
As Brinker International upgraded its tabletop technology and opened new eateries, the hospitality company reported that comparable restaurant sales increased 2 percent at its...
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1.9KEarningsMastercard’s X-Border Volumes Gain 16 Percent
Mastercard posted fourth quarter results Wednesday (Jan. 29) that showed increased spending on cards and across borders up double digits. Management expressed...
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1.7KRetailBeyond Amazon: How Smaller, Mom-And-Pop Retail Operations Can Thrive
Big chains and eCommerce operators tend to drive retail innovation — or make the most news when commerce fails — but small,...
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1.3KMobile Order AheadThe Mobile Order-Ahead Craving Is Insatiable
Ever imagine that people would be ordering airline food, for pickup or delivery, to enjoy at home? Sounds like late-night comedy, but...
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1.3KB2B PaymentsWidening Borrower Protection’s Scope To SMBs
Borrower protection initiatives have taken aim at predatory lenders, both online and brick-and-mortar, with legislators at the state and federal levels addressing...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsWhy Corporate Banks’ Should Seize Purchase-To-Pay Data Opportunity
Despite its rising popularity, open banking and data sharing frameworks were not necessarily opportunities toward which banks initially jumped. Their hesitation is...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsCorporate Cards Tackle Industry-Specific Pain Points
Commercial cards continue to explore more use cases to optimize spend for businesses, from accounts payable (AP) to employee travel and expense...
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3.2KMastercardMastercard And TabaPay On Accelerating Instant Payments
Mastercard’s drive to scale digital payments across the ecosystem has led the payments network to find new ways to help FinTechs participate...
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4.0KPodcastsFiserv: Payments Will Decide Travel Industry’s Winners And Losers In The 2020s
Certain things will never change when it comes to travel and hospitality. Consumers will always want clean rooms, punctual flights and polite...
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3.3KUnattended RetailUSAT: For Unattended Retail, The Tech’s The Limit
Self-service retail is, of course, a fancy term that replaces the traditional vending machine moniker (though kiosks and other digital- and mobile-anchored...
