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2.0KNewsFacebook And Google Payments Efforts Top Week’s News
Welcome to the PYMTS Weekender, where we recap the week’s biggest development in payments and commerce. This edition includes news about Facebook’s...
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1.0KSizzle/FizzleGoogle’s Turn In The (Expanding) AG Gaze
Bit by bit the dozens of attorneys general looking at Google are expanding how — along with where and why — they...
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1.5KDeliveryAmazon Makes Another Grocery Play Via Delivery
As it seeks to build its power in the grocery sector, Amazon reportedly is lowering its prices for grocery delivery in Germany,...
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1.2KRetailIs The Future Of Streaming Seamless Shopping?
The idea of shopping while watching TV is not exactly new or untrodden ground. The Home Shopping Network (HSN) has been around...
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1.2KRetailWhy Mobile Will Make Holiday 2019 Merrier For Retailers And Shoppers
The upcoming holiday shopping season is expected to break records in online spending, according to a study by Adobe Analytics. That’s even with a...
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1.2KB2B PaymentsMesh Eyes Virtual Cards For Global B2B Payments
Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercial card technology have positioned the...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsInvestors Go After B2B FinTech Maturity
As the fallout from WeWork’s stumbles continues, one could easily wonder if the market is beginning to question not only the position...
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2.7KDataTCH Gives Banks An Open Banking Template
FinTech firms need access to the data housed within traditional FIs. To get there, and to end the screen scraping (beloved by...
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2.4KRetailWhy The Future Of Brick-And-Mortar Isn’t About Sales
In 2014, it was hard to pick up any article about retail and not end up reading an obituary for the mall....
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2.5KB2B PaymentsBending Card Rails For B2B Payments Optimization
When the commercial card first came on the scene, executives thought of the payment tool in limited terms: a piece of plastic...
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2.4KPayments Innovation‘Simple’ Will Be Instant Payments Breakthrough Innovation
When the history of the paper check is written someday, scholars will not note it was the best payments form, nor the...
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2.0KEarningsWalmart CEO: eCommerce Isn’t Living Up To Its Potential (Yet)
When Walmart reported earnings Thursday (Nov. 14), it managed to extend one of retail’s more impressive growth streak — 21 consecutive quarters....
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1.2KDeliveryDigital Freight Services Race Toward More Cash And Last Mile Innovation
As the world of automotive and freight drives toward a future of connected commerce and even autonomous driving, companies are fighting it...
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1.2KRetailWayfair’s High-Tech Mobile Experience
Wayfair is expanding its use of augmented reality (AR) with the latest round of high-tech upgrades upgrades to its mobile app. Part...
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974InternationalPort of Los Angeles Volumes Show Trade War Impact
To get a sense of how the trade war – the one between China and the United States – is having an...
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1.3KRetailWhy Doing Retail For Runners Isn’t About Chasing The Mass Market
There is no shortage of startups that enter the wild world of direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail to address a hole in the market...
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1.1KRetailBoosting Innovation And Mobile Gaming Via Sports
Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry,...
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1.3KPayment MethodsFor Marketplace Platform Payments Experiences, Is It Back To Basics?
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of new sharing economy platforms. “The Uber of furniture,” P2P closet-sharing and crowdshipping...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsFaster Payments Readies Global Payroll For A Paradigm Shift
Increasingly, the gold standard for payments is invisibility. Platforms and payment service providers are seeking digital, integrated payment experiences that are so...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsHow SMBs’ Digital Banking Demands Change The KYC Challenge For Banks
While small businesses often struggle with a lack of integrated digital tools from their traditional financial service providers, the friction in small...
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1.2KB2B PaymentsAPIs Tackle Law Firms’ Collections Conundrum
Late and unpaid invoices are an accounts receivable nightmare for any business. But in the legal services arena, researchers estimate that up...
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4.3KVISAVisa: Using AI To Separate The Good, Bad — Across Billions Of Daily Security Events
Three billion credit and debit cards. More than 100 billion transactions, worth more than $11 trillion. That’s the payments volume running over Visa’s...
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2.7KeCommerceHow Retailers Are Playing The Holiday Inventory/Retail Tariff Game
For many retailers, especially those focused on eCommerce, the next several weeks are crucial. The holiday shopping season, stretching from Black Friday...
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2.1KFraud PreventionQSRs Fight Back Against Friendly Fraud
Over the last several decades, issuers and card networks have worked hard to educate consumers on a single point: If a fraudster...
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1.8KRetailHow ‘Assortment-As-A-Service’ Is Changing Physical Retail
It’s easy enough to think of small businesses as not being particularly innovative – and even to find data to back up...
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1.3KEarningsAmid eCommerce Store Launch, Fiverr Touts Studio Gigs In Q3 Results
Fiverr, an online marketplace for freelance services, reported a 42 percent year over year revenue gain for the third quarter of 2019 on Wednesday...
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2.4KFacebookFacebook: Govt. Data Requests Surge 16 Percent
Amid the controversies over data collection, data privacy, and consumer control over how their information is used, Facebook on Wednesday (Nov. 13)...
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1.9KAmazonDoes Nike Move Show An Amazon Weak Spot?
The knives are out for Amazon this week thanks to a major sneaker brand. But at this point, it seems unlikely that...
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1.2KEcosystemsOvercoming Voice’s Discovery Problem
There is no shortage of skills for users to choose from when talking to their voice assistants. Amazon ended 2018 with around...
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2.2KRetailUniqlo’s Quiet Retail Robot Revolution
In the life of any brand, a pivot – or even a series of pivots – is normal. Times change, tastes expand...
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1.3KRetailRetail Seeks More Loyalty From Sustainability-Minded Shoppers
Sustainable notions of commerce are moving ever more to the forefront of retail, and judging by shifting consumer trends — especially the...
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1.5KSubscription CommerceWhy Subscriptions Rule Retail And Amazon Is King
The third quarter of 2019 saw decreased revenue for meal kit subscription service Blue Apron, a company that is struggling to stay afloat in...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsIngo Money Dives Into Real-Time Payments Ubiquity Challenges
Faster payments continue to gain traction in the U.S., as service providers old and new introduce more options for consumer and business...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsBeyond The US, Open Banking Goes Beyond The Consumer
There may not be an Open Banking mandate in the U.S., but that doesn’t mean the payments and financial services market isn’t...
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4.7KLoyalty & RewardsFIS: The POS As The Last (And Perhaps Best) Stop To Cement Customer Loyalty
A satisfied customer is a loyal customer. Perhaps. But, then again, maybe not. The conventional wisdom that all a merchant must do...
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4.2KSecurity & FraudWhy FATF’s New Digital ID Report Will Be A Boon For Payments
The timing seems about right. As a brand-new decade looms – one that promises great strides for digital payments and commerce –...
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2.5KCredit UnionsHow Credit Unions Can Grab The Holidays’ Top-Of-Wallet
It goes without saying that the holiday shopping crush presents a massive opportunity for merchants and banks to cash in on the...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsBottomline: AP Automation, APIs Pay Dividends For Buyers — And Their Suppliers
In the drive to manage accounts payable (AP) more efficiently, buyers can not only optimize their own working capital, they can help...
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1.4KCryptocurrencyWill The IRS Take A Bite Out Of Crypto’s Wild Ride?
April is months away, but tax season is likely top of mind for crypto holders. To that end, in the United States,...
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1.2KSubscription CommerceDell Adds New Energy To On-Demand Subscription Commerce
Subscription keeps moving into new areas as more consumers — and businesses — come to rely on that retail method, and the...
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795AMLHow Zillow Fights Real Estate Fraud
The real estate industry is a hot target for fraudsters, who launder $1.6 trillion a year through rental payments and home purchases....
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1.5KDataAs Fraud Feeds On Data, FIs Harness It With AI
Last month, Nasdaq began using an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool to flag suspicious trades. The machine learning tool got up to speed...
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1.4KB2B PaymentsHow Supplier Focus Propels AP Innovation
Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven...
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1.4KB2B PaymentsMixing Tech With Humans To Fill Colombia’s SMB Finance Gap
In Latin America, Colombia is a bright spot for innovation and growth within the small business ecosystem. An Oxford Business Group report...
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1.5KANTITRUSTState AGs Gearing Up For Antitrust Push On Google?
For Google, antitrust scrutiny may be ramping up — if the meetings are any indication. As reported by Reuters on Monday (Nov....
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2.1KVoice ActivationGoogle’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance
On their shared home territory of the U.S. market, Amazon and Google have spent the last two years avidly racing for control...
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1.7KFintech InvestmentsIn India, Digital Payments Firms, Digital Lenders Grab VC Dollars
FinTech investment in India proceeds apace through the last few weeks of the year, with funding rounds extended to digital payments firms...
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1.5KDigital PaymentsDo Consumers Really Want A Unified Payments Offering?
One of the main tasks in 21st century physics is the search for the so-called “unified theory,” a single equation that explains...
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2.2KData DiveData Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens
The holiday shopping season is generally not a time of year marked by restraint or a “less is more” type of attitude....
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1.6KRetailThe Warby Parker Of Australia On Sustainable Eyewear’s Future
The global market for glasses is a big industry that is still growing. As of 2015, the total worldwide eyewear industry (encompassing both...
