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1.0KCryptocurrencyThe Central Bank Conundrum On Cryptos
For central banks, when it comes to cryptocurrencies, there’s no central theme. Whether the advent of digital coins signifies an existential threat...
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1.2KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Logistics Upgrades, New Leadership
Most weeks the latest and greatest in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck is the top-line news item for both Amazon...
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1.2KRetailSeeing The Future — Via Cosmic Subscription
In the last few years astrology has seen something of a cultural renaissance, particularly among millennial consumers. As recently as five years...
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1.3KSecurity & FraudIs Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?
Great news for innovative retailers. Less so for cashiers. The self-checkout system market is expected to increase from its current value of $2...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsSmall Business InsurTech Finds The Next Unicorn
After one of the busiest weeks of the year for B2B startup venture capital funding, this week revealed a bit of a...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsFor Commercial Cards, Mixing Rails A Promising Path To Adoption
Commercial card acceptance remains one of the largest barriers to the adoption of cards in accounts payable, largely thanks to suppliers’ reluctance...
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1.3KDeliveryEinride Presses The Pedal On Autonomous Delivery
The (delivery) robots are coming fast, and seem poised to take over the world. OK, that might take some time, or it...
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2.5KInnovationGoldman Sachs Puts Crowdsourcing To The ‘Shark Tank’ Test
Crowdsourcing is all the rage in the digital economy, and now Goldman Sachs is using that method in hopes of finding —...
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1.7KRetailAthleisure 2.0 And Standing Out With (CBD) Innovation
Athleisure is a large and growing market. As of 2016, the industry generated around $46 billion in U.S. sales, and by next...
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1.5KRetailAs NBA Drama Plays Out In China, Retailers Push Forward
The last few days has brought new retail news from China, as the NBA tries to keep hold of its commerce presence...
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1.6KRetailShould QSRs Be Scared Of ‘Ghost’ Restaurants?
Travis Kalanick, ousted founder of Uber, recently made his next big investment. His real estate company, City Storage Systems, bought a stake...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsSmall Business Banking Tests The Digital Identity Waters
Rising Know Your Customer and other risk mitigation regulations have the financial services world eyeing digital identity technology. Already seeping into the...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsHow Payroll Keeps Up With A Modernizing Workforce
With virtual assistant technology pressing deeper in corporate finance, bots and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools deploying natural language processing are popping up...
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3.1KLoansUpgrade Card Combines Credit Card Acceptance With Installment Payments Flexibility
Twelve years ago, LendingClub Founder Renaud Laplanche built a business to help consumers manage the $800 million in outstanding credit card debt....
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3.9KCross Border CommercePingPong: Why Doing Payments Globally Is All About Thinking Locally
The appeal of the global market for both eCommerce buyers and sellers needs little explanation or introduction. As billions of consumers all...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsThe Order To Cash Cycle Seeks Its Automated Reinvention
Managing supply chains and B2B payments means firms have to navigate complex order to cash (O2C) cycles. Brandon Spear, president at MSTS,...
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2.4KFaster PaymentsThe Push And Pull Of Real-Time Payments
With real-time payments spreading throughout the world (perhaps more slowly than expected, but still spreading), the characteristics of pull payments mean they...
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2.0KCryptocurrencyFacebook Preps For ‘Make Or Break’ Meeting In Geneva
It seems fitting that Libra’s make-or-break moments seem to be happening during October, which is, of course, tied to the Libra astrological...
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1.5KEarningsLevi’s Talks Up Its Big Digital Game — Including In China
Levi Strauss & Co. is putting more of its hopes into digital and mobile channels — and online culture — to expand revenue...
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1.9KInternationalWhatsApp Pay India Debut May Face Delay
In India, a delay for WhatsApp Pay? Reports came Wednesday (Oct. 9) from the Business Standard, and through Money Control, that there...
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1.6KTravel PaymentsCongress Aims To Bring Transparency To Hotel Resort Fees
You have to give digital and mobile technology some credit — over time, the complexities of travel pricing and costs (along with other...
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1.3KDigital OnboardingWhy Innovation Acceleration Matters
Innovation has become such a buzzword that it can be applied to countless solutions and initiatives, from emerging 5G mobile technology and...
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1.1KRetailReading The Tea Leaves For Steeping Subscription Success
Before Knud Berthelsen founded personalized subscription service Free Your Tea, he found it challenging to find good teas, Berthelsen told PYMNTS in an...
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1.1KRetailRetail Keeps Getting More Social — Even As Amazon Stumbles
Social media is taking a lot of fire these days, whether the issue is “fake news” or data privacy or just the...
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1.1KB2B PaymentsWhy Transparency Is A Problem In Logistics’ B2B Payments
B2B payments friction isn’t only experienced on the payer side. Often, accounts receivable challenges can cause significant disruptions to operations, and those...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsOpen Banking Spurs FI/FinTech Linkups Through Incubators
New regulations governing financial services – and transparency – as part of Open Banking are spurring new partnerships that seek to leverage...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsBanks Keep Vendors In AP Automation Conversation
The convergence of accounts payable and accounts receivable has led many in the AP automation industry to begin turning their attention to...
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3.6KCashVisa, Intuit Launch Instant Deposit For SMBs
Cash flow is that thing that can keep a business owner or executive up at night — and night after night, after...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsGetting Invoices Off The CEO’s Desk, Approved — And Paid
The old adage is familiar: The light at the end of the tunnel could be daylight — or another train headed one’s...
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3.8KGig EconomyHow The MENA Gig Economy Provides Global Lessons
The gig economy — and digital marketplaces designed to service gig workers and employers — is where so much of the action...
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1.8KInvestmentsApps And Alternative Finance Gain FinTech Investor Favor In India
Three months to go, more or less. In terms of the total amount invested to date in FinTechs, as tracked by PYMNTS...
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1.5KAppleApple Watch Earns Pro QB $5K Scolding From NFL
The Apple Watch has taken on numerous roles since its 2015 introduction — fitness monitor, mobile workstation, payment provider. Add another job...
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2.0KAlternative FinancesWhy Migrant Workers Need Their Own Financial Services
According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, as of 2018 (the last full year for which data is available), there were 28.2 million...
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1.6KEarningsDomino’s Preps For QSR Industry ‘Shakeout’
Get ready for some drama ahead in the food delivery space — that was one message that came from Domino’s Pizza on...
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1.8KRetailThe ABCs Of QSR Mobility
Five years ago, tapping a mobile phone to order ahead was still a relatively exotic idea. Starbucks mobile rewards were still new...
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1.4KRetailCatering To Cookie Cravings With Healthier Online Offerings
Sara Sims has always been a big fan of cookie dough, but she stopped eating it after her teens when she realized...
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1.6KRetailWhat’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China?
Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less...
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1.5KAuthenticationCan Digital Privacy Go Too Far?
Digital identity verification can come with privacy concerns. Using facial recognition technology and other biometric data is still controversial, but privacy concerns...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsSMBs Enter 2019’s Final Quarter With Plate Full Of Concerns
The year’s final quarter is upon us, marking an opportunity to look back at Q3 and obtain a reading of small businesses’...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsCannabis Cos’ Financial Struggles Spread Far Beyond The POS
When considering the financial services (FinServ) challenges of the legal cannabis sector, the biggest point of friction that almost always comes to...
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3.7KPOS InnovationMax Levchin On The Future-Present Of Everywhere POS Lending
When Affirm launched in February 2013, the point-of-sale (POS) financing marketplace in the U.S. was largely an empty greenfield wherein PayPal Co-Founder...
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4.3KPodcastsBridging Instant Payments’ Perception/Reality Gap
Payments people love to talk about rails — whose rails are the fastest, cheapest, most secure, most accepted, most compliant. Consumers, not...
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3.1KRegulationCyberSource: The SCA Delay Is Both An Opportunity And A Challenge
As of Sept. 14, the legal deadline for the strong customer authentication (SCA) requirement of the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) came and...
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2.0KPodcastsAs The 2020s Dawn, Why Credit Unions Need Millennials
With 2020 rushing toward us, a new decade means its time to take stock of where we are and where we’re headed in...
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1.1KRegulationSEC’s Moves To ‘Modernize’ ETFs Hint At Crypto Future
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking to “modernize” the regulation of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in a bid to make...
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1.9KLegalDomino’s Supreme Court Decision Spotlights Online Web Accessibility
When it comes to QSR and mobile innovation, pizza seller Domino’s has earned itself a leading position. Now, thanks to a court...
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2.4KHealthcareHealthcare Looks To 5G For Cost Control
The new 5G mobile network technology has started to make its initial foray into healthcare, and at a time when issues of...
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1.5KData DiveData Dive – Losses, Cuts And Freezes: Goldman, Banking And Rent The Runway
There are weeks of smooth sailing in the payments and commerce ocean, and then there are those weeks when the sailing is...
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1.7KRegulation RoundupBig Tech Privacy Bill Faces Delays
Big Tech has faced a number of inquiries growing in scope and scrutiny as lawmakers have been focused on competitive practices and...
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1.8KRetailDeveloping Ethical Chocolate Via Blockchain-Based Cocoa Bean Tracking
If chocolate is not the world’s most beloved food, it is at least a top contender, and has been for nearly 300...
