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4.9KSecurity & FraudPhishing Remains A Persistent Problem
Because of the huge number of emails sent daily – by some estimates, 3.7 billion people send around 269 billion emails every...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsThe Employer’s View Of Early Wage Access
There is a new normal in the workforce: a younger generation of professionals that prioritize flexibility and technology. Giving rise to the...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsSource Intelligence Eyes AI For Supply Chain Compliance
When it comes to regulatory compliance, no corporate is an island. An organization may have the resources to stay on top of...
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2.6KEarningsFacebook Q2 Weathers Fines And Antitrust Probes
Despite putting up another earnings beat in Q2 2019, there were reasons for Facebook to worry — apart from its financial results,...
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4.4KDigital PaymentsWhy Payments Diversity Matters As Firms Go Global
On a global stage, one size does not fit all when it comes to payments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO...
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6.0KNewsPayPal’s Q2 Rattles Investors
Product integration delays sent PayPal shares into a slump with growth forecasts below estimates — a top line hiccup, according to management...
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6.0KB2B PaymentsLeveling The Lopsided Trade Finance Playing Field
The world of B2B payments can be a somewhat lopsided place to navigate — a reality incredibly apparent in looking at the...
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4.5KBankingBB&T/SunTrust Merger Raises Questions On Capitol Hill
In banking, “too big to fail” has become shorthand for financial firms of scale and reach so significant that any operational or...
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2.3KRetailRethreading How Apparel Gets Made
The apparel industry is famous, or perhaps more appropriately infamous, for its high and growing level of environmental impact. Globally, consumers purchased 60...
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1.8KRetailChipotle’s Q2 Digital Sales Skyrocket; Rewards Members Exceed 5M
As digital sales continue to skyrocket and a new rewards program takes hold, Chipotle Mexican Grill beat analysts’ expectations for second-quarter earnings....
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3.5KRetailAugmented Reality Gets Retail Boost From Snapchat And Google
The profile of augmented reality (AR) keeps rising in retail, and the latest evidence of the technology’s promise and popularity comes from...
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3.2KAlternative FinancesBringing Debt Management Into The Digital Age
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”...
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2.5KEarningsDiscover Notches Stronger Than Expected Q2 Results
The consensus was mixed among analysts as to what to expect out of Discover Financial when its Q2 earnings hit the wires yesterday...
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3.6KFaster PaymentsReal-Time Payments Are Reaching A Tipping Point
While commercial real-time payments became available in the U.S. back in 2017, they haven’t yet hit ubiquity. By the end of 2018,...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsMultinational Corporates Face Rising FX Hedging Pressure
The victory of Boris Johnson in the U.K.’s Conservative Party leadership contest is only the latest geopolitical event sparking concerns among analysts...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsPriority Pulls Back The Curtain On AP Automation Misconceptions
Despite corporates’ retention of paper checks, businesses want accounts payable (AP) automation. The latest B2B Payments Automation Innovation Playbook, a collaboration between...
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3.8KDigital BankingShoring Up FIs ‘Deteriorating Advantage’ Over Big Tech
Big Tech vs. big banks. Battling. Conventional wisdom seems to hold that challenger banks will eat traditional financial institutions’ collective lunch in...
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10.5KPayments InnovationMastercard On Tackling AP Automation’s Last Mile
If the last mile of eCommerce lies with logistics — getting goods where they need to go — the “last mile” in...
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4.4KEcosystemsCan ISVs And ISOs Thrive Amid Payments Megadeals?
So far, 2019 has been a year of mergers, refashioning the roster of big (and getting bigger) payments solution providers, bringing myriad...
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5.9KEarningsVisa CEO: FY 3Q, Acquisitions Continue Drive To Be ‘Network Of Networks’
Visa posted fiscal third quarter results that showed a rebound in cross border transactions, and continued gains in payments volumes overall. Management...
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2.0KEarningsSnap Rides Success Of Updated Android App To Q2 Growth
Improvements to its Android offering continued to pay dividends for Snapchat operator Snap in the second quarter of 2019, according to the...
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3.8KBank RegulationPro-Pot SAFE Banking Act Hits Roadblock In US Senate
Among the main stories in payments in recent months has been the increasing push to reform federal banking laws so that legal...
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4.4KHealthcareNew Mobile Healthcare Efforts Point To Wider Payment Trends
Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears...
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2.6KInvestmentsHome Services, Served by (Lots Of) Capital
Home services may be the next frontier in real estate — and possibly, a bit less dependent on new transactions. As noted...
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2.8KDigital PaymentsUber Pushes The Edge On Subscription Commerce
Uber has already set many of the high standards for payments that are basically becoming table stakes — that is, the expectation...
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2.4KRetailPowering eCommerce Food Brands With Plants (And Brownie Points)
Entrepreneurs sometimes start companies to overcome personal culinary challenges: Coconut Whisk CEO and Founder Bella Lam, for instance, discovered it was difficult...
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2.1KRetailThe Many Pivots Enroute To A Multi-Million Dollar Skincare Brand
One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new...
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2.8KPayments InnovationThe Platform Economy Evolves To Become More Personalized
The platform economy is being transformed by an increased demand for faster payments bolstered by mobile usage, according to the latest Payments...
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2.3KEarningsFacebook Q2 Earnings Preview: Ad Sales, Libra To Affect Growth
It’s been a wild couple of weeks – or months – for Facebook. Amid privacy concerns, Senate hearings and Libra drama, it’s...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsTackling Late Supplier Payments From The Buyer’s Perspective
Cash flow management can be a conundrum for any business, large or small. But when SMB suppliers land a contract with a...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsChina’s Bank Watchdog Goes After Supply Chain Finance Fraud
China’s banking regulator is introducing stricter requirements on banks and insurance institutions that provide supply chain financial solutions in an effort to...
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6.4KAuthenticationPSD2, SCA And Exemptions To The Extension
There may be extensions to Strong Customer Authentication's (SCA) rollout this fall — and there may not. And, there may be exemptions...
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8.9KAuthenticationMobile Devices And Navigating Identity’s ‘Big Canvas’
The fundamental unit of trust in any transaction lies in identity — namely, ensuring that the person who shows up to transact...
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5.1KInvestmentsFOMO: The (Literal) Land Grab For Real Estate Startups
Call it groupthink, on a grand scale, to the tune of billions of dollars. Call it FOMO. But then again, YOLO. So...
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3.9KRetailPop-Up Retail Gets A Pop Of Fresh Energy
The best joy is often fleeting. So go some views of philosophy, religion and psychology. We at PYMNTS don’t mean to burden...
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5.6KInnovationAutonomous Vehicles Run Into Serious Roadblocks
Sometimes, when an idea – especially one that has long stewed in popular imagination – makes serious and well-funded moves toward becoming...
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2.8KRetailPet Retail And CBD Combine Innovative Forces
Retail trends and innovation can come from unlikely places, and that seems to be the case now when it comes to pets...
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3.0KRetailBringing The Bidet Into the Mainstream
While it often slips past unnoticed, toilet paper can actually be something of an environmental catastrophe. The major mass-market producers – Procter...
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3.6KRetailAmazon Go Has Spawned Imitators, But Also Innovation
Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsPayments Fraud, Via Apps?
Symantec has discovered vulnerabilities in two popular messaging and media apps, WhatsApp and Telegram, which can be hijacked to commit payments fraud. ...
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11.2KB2B PaymentsWhy Platforms Hold The Key To Igniting ePayables
They’re slow. They’re cumbersome and expensive. They open the door for fraud. For all their drawbacks, why do paper checks persist in...
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5.8KLatin AmericaLATAM’s Payments Innovation Renaissance
Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. The level of opportunity arising...
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3.6KRegulationLibra’s Long Week In Washington
While we cannot accurately say that the two days Facebook’s David Marcus were the worst two days a Facebook executive has ever...
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10.2KRetailWhat ‘Stranger Things’ Teaches Us About Attacks On Big Tech
A couple of months ago, I decided to give spinning a try. I’m a runner, not a biker, but wanted to see...
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4.8KInnovationCan Elon Musk Turn The Human Brain Into A Connected Device?
It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one...
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4.2KThe WeekenderVisa’s PayWorks Acquisition, Amazon’s Prime Day Top This Week’s News
We hope you had a great week, and that you didn’t miss any important news from the world of payments and commerce. The...
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3.4KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Prime Day And Its Aftermath
Most weeks, the tale of Amazon and Walmart’s ongoing battle for the larger share of the consumer’s whole paycheck is a fairly...
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3.0KEarningsAmex Q2 Billed Business Gains 5 Percent YOY
American Express posted results that largely met expectations for the second quarter, based on continued card spending and loan growth. In terms...
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2.6KRetailDTC Bikes In A Box, For The IKEA-Level DIYer
Buying a bicycle shouldn’t be an overly challenging task for a consumer, but often shapes up to be one, particularly if one...
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3.6KRetailHow Pay Advances Affect The Retail Industry
In the gig economy, early payment—not just ease or speed—can be a differentiator. According to Pay Advances: The Gig Economy’s New Normal, employers...
