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1.8KSizzle/FizzleStripe’s Valuation And The Value Of Real Disruption
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the WeWork IPO – rather, the shelving of that IPO, at least for now – heralds...
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1.7KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Big Payments Upgrades, New Reviews And A Second Life For An Old Brand
It was something of an uneven week in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck. Amazon had a something of a forward-backward...
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1.4KThe WeekenderFraud, New Payment Trendsetters And Voice Dominate Week’s News
Top News Plot Thickens as FBI Probes Alleged MyPayrollHR Fraud News came at the end of the week that the FBI and...
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1.2KRetailHow Dogs And Cats Are Pushing More Retail Innovation
Whether you are a dog or cat person – or prefer another animal – pets are big business, and they are helping to...
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1.2KCommerce ConnectedIs There Anywhere Connected Consumers Won’t Shop?
It was recently reported that one in 15 purchases are now made between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. (at least...
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1.3KB2B PaymentsKanye Heads To Court In Late-Pay Battle While Aussie Receivables Accelerate
Two separate studies show that in Australia, late payments are receding a bit. There still is much room for improvement, however. And, separately,...
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1.2KPayments InnovationKeeping Online Counterfeits Off Luxury Marketplaces
Sales of counterfeit goods, particularly on third-party sites that facilitate transactions between individual buyers and sellers, have skyrocketed with the advent of...
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1.3KAmazonCan Amazon Bring More Climate Action To Retail And Payments?
So goes Amazon, so goes most of the rest of the retail world, with the eCommerce operator’s influence also extending to payments....
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2.2KCryptocurrencyWells Fargo To Pilot Digital Coin
The various debates over crypto – security, volatility, their place within, or outside of, the central banking system – are far from...
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1.2KRetailCollaborating To Create Kids’ Subscriptions With A STEM Twist
Parents looking for subscriptions boxes to keep their children educationally entertained have many, many options, including names like Monti Kids, Green Pinata...
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1.2KRetailGiving The Gift Of Michigan With Curated Boxes
Michiganders may have a cottage up north, treat 50 degrees as “shorts weather” and consider Superman ice cream to be a symbol...
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1.2KRetailApparel, Embracing Digital, Drives Innovation In Retail
Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has...
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1.8KPayments InnovationB2B Payment Innovations Keep Suppliers In Mind
This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsADB Warns Of ‘Digital Poverty’ Hampering Trade Finance
The Asian Development Bank, which ramped up the trade finance industry’s focus on broadening access to small businesses after releasing a report...
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1.4KB2B PaymentsThe High Stakes Of Supply Chain Technology
Supply chain management has morphed into a strategic business initiative combining technological adoption, event forecasting and even politics: awareness of its complexities...
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3.0KPayments InnovationCiti On Treasury’s Real-Time Reality
Treasury management is becoming a job done in real time, as business is done across borders and time zones. Ron Chakravarti, Treasury...
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2.6KNewsMobile Smart Kitchens Reinvent Food Delivery
The food that appears on one’s dinner plate each night comes with no small amount of environmental cost. It takes much land,...
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2.3KFraud PreventionCurbing Digital Advertising’s Big Payments Fraud Problem
The complexity of online and mobile advertising — and the vast sums of money involved — make those areas extremely attractive for...
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2.1KGlobal PaymentsWhat Brexit Uncertainty Will Mean For Ireland’s FinServ Future
The Brexit saga is a case study in uncertainty ever since then-British Prime Minister David Cameron stepped down June 24, 2016, the...
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3.7KRegulationBIS Advocates Bank Oversight Of Blockchain
In finance, now comes automated, embedded supervision. Maybe. To that end, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a paper titled...
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2.7KRidesharingA Year After Lyft’s Billionth Ride, The Industry Weathers Big Challenges
Optimism can be so fleeting and fragile, especially when it comes to revenue, growth and profit. That’s one lesson to consider today...
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2.3KRetailUsing Data Tech To Create A Modern Lingerie Marketplace
For American women, there is plenty of friction built into the process of purchasing lingerie. Cost, sizing, styling, access and lack of...
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2.1KRetailAthletic Subscription Boxes Run On Curation
The plethora of merchandise and accessories in the athletic market can be overwhelming for new runners. In addition to buying a pair...
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1.6KRetailRetail Feels The Wide Impact Of Bridge Millennials
Among the forces working to influence and change retail — and do so into the 2019 holiday shopping season, as well as...
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979SubscriptionsLocalization Matters For Global Subscription Commerce
Despite the popularity of subscription commerce, it can be a volatile market. In any given week, some companies fizzle out while others...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsTop Banks Keep Ahead Of FinTechs’ Competitive Threat
The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In a market without Open Banking regulations, FinTechs...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsFinTech/API Efforts Gain Ground in Europe
Open banking is opening doors for FinTech and FI collaborations, where cross pollination of financial services and products is gathering momentum. In...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsPayroll Moves From Administrative Task To Employee Experience
The fallout over alleged fraud at the hands of payroll software company MyPayrollHR came to a head this week when the Federal...
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3.1KAlternative FinancesPayPal Lowers Installment Credit Threshold To $30 – $99 Purchases
Consumers now have a range of promotional financing deals to choose from the online payments system PayPal that provides zero-interest installment loans...
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3.2KConsumer AuthenticationHow To Build A Global Digital Identity Network
To build a global identity network requires vision, scale and of course infrastructure – not to mention money. Fresh off a funding...
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2.2KInnovationHow To Make Sure Stores Don’t Die
Among the defining endeavors of our time — at least for the worlds of payment and commerce — has been to bring brick-and-mortar...
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4.3KCryptocurrencyBurger King Now Accepts Bitcoin
You want fries with that crypto? Might have to wait a bit, especially on the international stage. For some, bitcoin and cryptos...
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2.4KHealthcareHealthcare Goes Retail
Healthcare, among the biggest industries in the world, is being massively disrupted, an effort that could take years or even decades before...
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1.8KEconomyReport: China’s Social Credit Systems Could Go Mainstream
The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China. Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working...
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2.5KAlternative FinancesPayday Lending Laws Drive Traffic To Pawn Shops
While short-term lending in general has a pretty rough reputation, the pawn loan is the most ill-regarded arena in an already unloved category of...
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3.2KRetailHow Voice Will Capture The Connected Commerce Frontier
A massive sea change has happened in the world of retail – albeit so subtly and swiftly that most consumers probably never...
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2.1KRetailPutting Vinyl Back On Track With eCommerce
Streaming has become a trend as consumers shift from paying for music ownership to paying for music access. It has changed the...
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1.8KRetailGoogle, Amazon Map Out Retail Future On The Road
The future of retail is playing out in multiple places, not the least of which is the open road. That’s where the...
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2.0KDigital BankingMobile Banking Users Want More Control — But At What Cost?
Impending 5G technology holds a great deal of promise for many industries, especially for financial institutions. A 5G network could markedly improve...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsSpeed Finds Opportunity In B2B Payments Beyond Accounts Payable
Corporate treasurers show increasing interest in real time and faster payment solutions, the latest research suggests. However, it’s not necessarily the ability...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsVisa’s Kevin Phalen: Making The Case For B2B Payments’ Innovation Progress
Checks. Spreadsheets. Mounds of paper. Opaque payments moving sluggishly across borders and between banks. There is a mountain of friction in commercial...
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3.8KPodcastsPODCAST: Solving Instant Payments Ubiquity Problem
Consumers live in a real-time world. Their use of mobile devices fuels the expectation that what happens on the other side of...
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3.2KCryptocurrencyWhat South Korea’s Delisting Of Private Altcoins Means For Crypto
Only five coins — altcoins to be exact. But may South Korea’s bid to delist those five coins on a single exchange,...
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1.5KRetailMoney Can’t Buy Love, But Can A Subscription Make It Stick?
There are plenty of apps that will help a consumer find love, or at least a reasonable simulacrum of it for an...
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1.8KRetailDelivering Restaurant Innovation With Mobile Tech
With more choices for fast-casual dining than ever before, diners can choose to eat in restaurants or tap into delivery whether they...
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2.3KRegulationFor Big Tech, Antitrust Scrutiny Deepens
Now the letters fly from the U.S. Congress — with an eye on documents that show the inner workings of Big Tech. On...
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2.3KRegulationBiometrics’ Role In SCA Compliance
Despite announcements last month that the deadline for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) compliance will be extended, the original proposed deadline approaches next...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsPlot Thickens as FBI Probes Alleged MyPayrollHR Fraud
Payroll and direct deposit fraud has gained ground, most recently spotlighted in continued developments tied to MyPayrollHR, which shuttered operations suddenly this...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsHow SMB FinTech Elevates (Not Negates) The Need For Humans
Experts may agree that small business owners have more choice than ever before when it comes to adoption of FinTech — thanks...
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3.9KPayment MethodsWhat The MyPayrollHR Debacle Says About Payroll’s Future
Perhaps everyone’s worst nightmare came true for 250,000 employees of 4,000-5,000 small businesses over Labor Day weekend: Payday came, and paychecks didn’t. In...
