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3.0KSouth AsiaWhat Cambodia’s Debt Crisis Means For Microlending
There is a debt crisis slowly but surely building in Cambodia that could see millions of people losing their homes and family...
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2.9KDigital PaymentsWhy Local Powers Global Recurring Payments
“Go West, young man,” or variations on that thought once served to point the way toward potential prosperity for workers and budding...
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5.2KRetailGroupon Tries To Reach A More Lucrative Consumer Base
Hey, did you hear about Groupon? When was the last time anyone said that to you? No offense against Groupon, the relatively...
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2.7KRetailRedesigning Doggie Daycare With Customization
Finding a good dog sitter in a crowded urban metro area can be challenging — particularly if one is looking for an...
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2.1KRetailSoftBank Reportedly Tapping Into Online Used Car Trend
Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital...
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1.9KRetailWhen Homeshares Become Shoppable Experiences
For some entrepreneurs, their own trips have inspired them to start companies catering to travelers’ unique needs. The Sursy Founder and CEO...
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2.3KSubscriptionsSubscription Commerce Is Expanding Beyond Retail
News came last week that Facebook is trying to get into the video streaming subscription business and attempt to steal market share...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsBEC Scam Storms The Sports Field (Literally)
A BEC scam has robbed a Virginia school of funds to pay for a new football field. Separately, AppZen finds that artificial...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsThe Public Perception Challenge Of Public Procurement
The U.S. Department of Defense has pressed the pause button on its search for a cloud computing vendor. Earlier this month reports...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsUK, US SMB Lending Experience A Growing Divide
Geopolitical volatility in the U.K. related to Brexit uncertainty is having widespread ramifications in the financial world. One area of impact is...
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11.7KPayments InnovationWhy FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments
I’m from the government and I’m here to make sure you get your paychecks faster – even instantly… …if you can just...
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7.7KInnovationWhy Payments’ New World Isn’t A Solo Mission
“No person is an island,” so goes the line from an old poem, meant to show how we are all interconnected. That...
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4.1KAlternative FinancesFinServ Matchmaker SuperMoney Tops $2B In Loan Requests
Most people make big purchases not so much with the total cost of ownership in mind, but how much it costs them...
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3.3KCredit UnionsCUs Try To Solve The Cannabis Cash Conundrum
Pot is legal across several states, illegal nationwide, and cash still dominates transactions. But might CUs offer a salve for at least...
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3.9KDigital PaymentsMoney-Inspired Music And Why Hip Hop Tops The Charts
It used to be all about the Benjamins, all about the cold hard cash – in this case, U.S. $100 bills, as...
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4.6KEarningsUber And Lyft Earnings Tell Tales Of Two Strategies
In what seems to be shaping up to be a modern-day version of The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones, Uber and Lyft...
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2.6KThe WeekenderAmazon Cloud Investigation And Walmart’s Answer To Libra Top Week’s News
Top News Why Mastercard Acquired Nets For Mastercard, the acquisition furthers its continued strategy to move well beyond cards, to deepen its...
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3.5KRetailGoogle’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches,...
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2.7KRegulationReady Or Not, Strong Customer Authentication Is Coming
As September approaches, the deadline for EU merchants to implement Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is looming. But according to the PSD2 Tracker,...
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3.6KEarningsBottomline Doubles Down On Data Intelligence For FY 2020
Commercial payments firm Bottomline Technologies is doubling-down on data intelligence after posting an 11 percent year-on-year increase in subscription and transaction revenues...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsHow Restaurant AP Grows Value With The Front-Office POS
The restaurant industry has a lot of unique financial friction points. With notoriously tight margins, continued reliance on cash and paper and...
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5.7KNewsRetail Automation: Big Bang Or Slow Build?
Kiosks. Intelligent cabinets. Cashless stores. Retailers must embrace automation, as Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet, tells PYMNTS....
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5.8KArtificial IntelligenceAI And A Consumer’s Curated Path To Purchase
The good news about the era of marketplaces is that it allows the internet to finally live up to its potential as...
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4.4KInnovationThe Digital Platform That Wants To Be A-Star-Is-Born Maker
There are still countless books to be written about whether the digital age — the technology, the processes, the seemingly endless retail...
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3.7KNewsThis Week In Amazon Vs. Walmart: The Battle For Consumers
Though Amazon and Walmart are in a constant race for the consumer’s whole paycheck, they mostly stay within their own lanes. Though...
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3.1KEarningsUber User Base Hits 100M, Growth Slows
It was a rough ride in after-hours trading after Uber reported its Q2 results — Uber’s big losses made investors and analysts...
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3.1KEarningsBig Tech’s Big Profits For SoftBank
Big tech, big bets and big profits. SoftBank’s first fiscal quarter is a snapshot of a longer-term trend if you go by...
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3.9KEarningsFiverr Reports Post-IPO Revenue Bump Amid Gig Economy Growth
Fiverr, an online marketplace for freelance services, reported its Q2 results on Thursday (Aug. 8), posting a 41 percent year-over-year revenue increase...
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2.9KAuthenticationConsumers Not Averse To ‘Positive Friction’ In Sharing Economy Platforms
Sharing economy platforms have become a force to be reckoned with. Overall, roughly 111 million consumers use some type of sharing economy...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsA ‘Payment-Agnostic’ Approach To Accounts Payable
The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsHow The FedNow Service Could Keep Checks In B2B Payments
The Federal Reserve’s planned faster payments service, the FedNow Service, is slated to have an impact on the speed with which paper...
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2.7KAlternative FinancesState Regulators Investigate Payday Advances
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has announced it will lead a multi-state investigation into alleged violations of state...
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5.6KPayments InnovationHow Airbnb, Lime, Turo, Fiverr And Newegg Are Using Instant Payments
Whether it’s a merchant or their customer, an employer or their employee — every party involved in a transaction wants to be...
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4.1KAuthenticationCan Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?
What was the color of the car you owned in 2005? Still remember it? Probably not. But you can bet someone knows...
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4.4KDigital PaymentsWhy Credit Unions Have A Member Loyalty Gap
Loyalty is a tricky proposition, especially as plastic cards have given way to mobile payments, and there is little mercy for those...
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3.2KEarningsLyft’s Revenue Per Rider Up Amid More ‘Rational’ Ride Hailing Market
For Lyft, riders were up, revenues per rider were up, and the push beyond ride hailing continues. The transportation company reported results...
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3.0KInternationalWhy China’s SMB IOUs Spell Out Troubles Ahead
Déjà vu for IOUs — and because this is China we’re talking about, it may be the world economy that ultimately pays....
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2.8KEarningsBlue Apron’s Struggles Reflect Larger Meal Kit Issues
The meal kit industry is undergoing significant change as new players emerge and older participants keep seeking the formula that works best...
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2.8KRetailHow An Online Automotive Deal Is Fueling A Retail Trend
Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online. Those two retail...
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2.4KRetailWhy Rural Shoppers Need Digital Innovation Too
It is easy enough to think about the various advances in digital commerce as mostly being urban or suburban phenomena. Mostly because...
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1.8KRetailPutting Leisure In A Box, On Demand
Some entrepreneurs create companies to tackle a challenge they have faced in their own lives. Ballbox Founder and CEO Alexander Hejazi, for...
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3.9KSecurity & FraudIs It Time To Retire Passwords For Digital Authentication?
Even if one tried, it would be hard to ignore the near-constant reports of data breaches. Based on the flurry of consumers...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsTaking On SMB Banking Friction Without Reinventing The Wheel
The jury is still out on the future of opening banking in the U.S. Without a regulatory mandate, many in the financial...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsHong Kong Eyes New Phase of Open API Project
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is set to launch the second phase of its Open API project. Separately, digital banking in Europe...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsPressure Mounts On Big Four Auditors
The former chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned of Enron-style corporate collapses thanks to failings of the nation’s...
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2.5KEarningsLendingClub Logs Lower-Than-Expected Losses
Though LendingClub is still reporting losses this quarter and missed its revenue estimates, the market mostly liked what it saw out of...
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10.1KMastercardWhy Mastercard Acquired Nets
Mastercard is making its largest acquisition to date with its $3.2 billion bid to buy the Denmark-based payments platform, Nets, furthering its...
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9.1KEcosystemsPaytronix’s Open Dining Buy Unlocks Restaurants’ Digital Front Doors
Restaurants, like all businesses, have always had a “front door problem” – that is, how to get people in the mood to...
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7.8KAuthenticationWhy Mobile Phones Are The Better Consumer Authentication Mousetrap
At this point in 2019, we’ve all dealt with some flavor of two-factor authentication that uses SMS one-time passcodes. We attempt a sign-in...
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5.1KEarningsPost-Worldpay Deal, FIS Eyes eCom and Real-Time Payments
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) released results Tuesday (Aug. 6) that showed organic growth for FIS and recently acquired Worldpay as standalone...
