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4.8KInvestmentsFunds Flow in Southeast Asia, Giving Tech Unicorns Wings
In Asia, the marquee names seem to be ones that are attracting attention when it comes to investors’ appetites — and money!...
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3.7KGlobal PaymentsDeposit Solutions Brings Savedo To Switzerland; Mall Retailers Take WeChat Pay
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Deposit Solutions’ rollout of business-to-consumer (B2C)...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsAccountants Emerge At The Intersection Of Corporate Finance And IT
From fears that automation and technology will replace the need for human accountants, what has emerged instead is an understanding that technology...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsBlockchain Gets A Nod In The Isle Of Man
The Isle of Man sets up a sandbox for FinTech firms and blockchain efforts. In Japan, some of the largest banks, previously...
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4.7Kcall center commerceHow Betterment Is Using AI, Automation For Better Customer Engagement
Catering to the needs of tech-savvy consumers means providing customer service that’s quick and adaptive, regardless of the channel. Automation, artificial intelligence...
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10.0KCryptocurrencyCold Storage Case File: Death, Crypto And A Lost Password
About $190 million lies out of reach for hundreds of thousands of crypto investors. The death of one man, the lone holder...
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8.6KHealthcareGood Healthcare Requires Good Data — And Blockchain And Biometrics, Too?
This isn’t some cheap dose of “Little House on the Prairie” nostalgia, but rather a shot of truth: We are a long...
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6.0KDigital PaymentsSenders As Issuers: A New Space For Cards In Global P2P
When InstaReM CEO and Co-founder Prajit Nanu started putting together a global remittance firm for consumers and businesses in 2014, he had...
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3.0KIPOWill Slack’s Direct IPO Be A Direct Hit With The Street?
For the stock market, 2018 seems so rear view mirror, among the worst years in a decade. As of this writing the...
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5.3KLegalOnline Sports Betting Gets A Super Bowl Workout
As the New England Patriots and their fans prepared for their latest Super Bowl victory parade on Tuesday (Feb. 5), details emerged...
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3.5KLoansOnward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative
You know the story. Critics say that short-term, small-dollar loans push consumers into the hamster wheel of a never-ending debt cycle – one that...
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3.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAEVI, Secure Trading In White-Label POS Pact
On Tuesday (Feb. 5), AEVI and Secure Trading/acquiring.com said they have teamed up to offer a POS solution that focuses on white-labeled,...
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3.6KDigital BankingDeep Dive: Fighting Fraud At The Genetic Level
To fight fraud effectively, financial institutions need to clearly understand it, right down to its DNA. The Digital Banking Tracker's includes a...
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6.8KB2B PaymentsCross-Border Efforts Mark Open Banking, API Collaborations
This new age of Open Banking and PSD2 has opened the door to collaboration between banks and FinTech firms — so, too, has...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsAustralia Commission: Tighter Regulation Not The Right Move For SMB Lending Misconduct
The Australian government is taking major steps toward overhauling the nation’s banking industry amid revelations of misconduct by top financial institutions (FIs),...
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5.6KB2B PaymentsData Integration: The Key To Successful B2B eCommerce
B2B commerce has a reputation for being slow to digitize and lagging behind the B2C eCommerce space, but considering analysis that forecasts...
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7.3KConsumer FinanceThe Making Of A Digital Subprime Marketplace
No one needs to be told that eCommerce is becoming a more important part of consumers’ daily lives. Any number of stats...
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6.3KEarningsGoogle Feels The Cost-Per-Click Squeeze In Q4
Alphabet managed to beat Wall Street expectations for both earnings and revenue in the final quarter of 2018. Earnings came in at $12.77...
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7.1KPayments InnovationIntegrating Payments Into The Workflow — And The Workforce
The workforce skews tech-savvy, younger ... and remote. The way we pay and get paid is ever-more intuitive, cued by Uber. So it is —...
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4.4KStartupsChinese Firms Look Beyond Borders As China’s Economy Slows
To keep revenues growing, tap new markets. To that end, a number of tech startups in China, eyeing a slowing economy at...
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3.6KInnovationWarby Parker Goes AR/VR — Will It Generate Sales?
Warby Parker has officially joined the ranks of retailers embracing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) tech with the launch of...
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6.7KInnovationArtificial Intelligence Innovation Steered By U.S. and China
Artificial intelligence has started — slowly — to make its presence felt in payments and commerce, including in fraud prevention, via early deployments...
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7.9KFaster PaymentsDeep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal
Real-time payment systems are quickly cropping up across the globe. Twenty-five of them were operational worldwide in 2017, and that number had...
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5.6KB2B PaymentsGetting CRM Technology Up To Speed With SMB Payments
FinTech has, in many ways, democratized technology once reserved for the largest enterprises, and reduced barriers for small business (SMB) adoption. The...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsPG&E Bankruptcy Plans May Hit Suppliers, Too
The ripple effects of PG&E’s bankruptcy may hit billions of dollars in outstanding supplier contracts as renegotiations loom. Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia is spotlighted...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsSMB Growth Stumbles Over Technology
While there’s been talk of an economic slowdown ahead, and declining optimism among the business community, the latest stats on small businesses...
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11.3KAMLDeep Dive: How To Improve Existing AML/KYC Requirements
The following Deep Dive examines how the 2008 financial meltdown paved the way for existing AML/KYC practices, and how FIs can work...
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4.3KAlternative FinancesAre Mortgages The On-Ramp For Lifelong Financial Management?
Of the scores of innovations and updates to consumer lending seen and written about over the last decade or so, speed is...
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4.2KAuthenticationWhy Voice Authentication’s Doing Prison Time
What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often...
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7.0KGig EconomyAmid Job Numbers Blowout, Gig Economy Thrives
On Friday (Feb. 1), the government reported job numbers that blew away expectations. Data from the BLS and ADP, triangulated against the...
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4.6KRetailWhy The Dollars Are Actually The Greatest Show On Turf
Rumor has it, there is some sort of football competition happening in Atlanta this weekend. We are mostly kidding about that. As PYMNTS is Boston-based,...
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4.3KInternationalProspect Of ‘No Deal’ Brexit Has FinTechs Scrambling
Deal or no deal? No, not the game show, because in the case of “no deal,” it seems like no one wins....
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3.4KAmazonAmazon Marketplace Changes Will Have Wide Impact — Whatever They Are
The Amazon Marketplace stands as one of the most successful efforts of the eCommerce operator, and now changes are looming to the...
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3.0KEarningsEarnings By The (Lots Of) Numbers
Earnings, earnings everywhere, and so what do the numbers tell us? Across eCommerce, across payments giants, across social media, the last several...
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3.7KRegulationNew India eCommerce Rules Spur Amazon To Remove Some Items
In India, the new eCommerce rules have taken shape, and are now official — with none of the delay that retailing giants...
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5.6KDigital BankingHow HSBC Uses AI To Boost Its Digital Banking Immune System
What good is an AI-powered insight if core banking systems do not know how to act on it in real time? In...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsHow FinTech Plans To Shift The Tides Of France’s Commercial Card Adoption
Commercial cards remain merely a small fraction of the massive B2B transaction pool in the U.S., yet adoption is steadily climbing at...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsPatisserie Valerie Saga Finds Fake Invoices
Ongoing investigations into the £40 million (nearly $52.4 million USD) fraud that felled Patisserie Valerie have found that fake invoices were involved....
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4.4KAmazonAmazon Gets Q4 Prime Member Surge, Hints At Business Model Change
After missing revenue expectations for the last two quarters, Amazon managed to beat the Street this time around, announcing recording-breaking holiday sales figures...
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5.9KEarningsMastercard Q4 Continues Contactless, B2B Growth ‘Marathon’
Mastercard results released on Thursday (Jan. 31) morning showed continued gains in processed transactions, tied in part to holiday spending during the...
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10.4KDigital PaymentsVenmo And Zelle’s P2P Battle Royale
The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle, the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer...
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3.2KEarningsMastercard Gross Dollar Volume Up 14 Pct In 4Q
Mastercard results released Thursday morning (Jan. 31) showed continued gains in processed transactions, tied in part to holiday spending during the quarter...
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4.5KRetailCan Amazon Break Into Beauty?
Beauty is a big and booming global business. According to some estimates, the size of the global beauty and personal care products...
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2.3KAmazonInvestors Looking For Revenue Rebound When Amazon Reports
With Amazon reporting its earnings tomorrow, the hanging question is whether Q4 will avoid the disappointments that rocked the company’s stock price...
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2.2KAMLKeeping Investment Platforms Free From Fraudsters
How can firms with global ambitions balance a smooth authentication process with rigorous AML efforts? In the inaugural edition of the AML/KYC...
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7.7KB2B PaymentsSWIFT Gears Up For Trade Via Blockchain
Financial messaging service SWIFT said this past week that it has fashioned a partnership with R3, a blockchain startup. The partnership will integrate the...
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9.0KB2B PaymentsFighting Fraud In A Faster Payments Landscape
NACHA recently released new figures on ACH network volume, revealing earlier this week that Same-Day ACH volume grew 46 percent between Q4...
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7.0KEcosystemsWhy Google Wants To Ride Shotgun With Automobile OEMs
In the quickly developing world of voice-controlled artificial intelligence, the car is shaping up to be the newest battleground. It is territory...
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3.7KEarningsAmid China Slowdown, Alibaba’s Customers Up 23 Pct YOY
Alibaba Group Holding posted mixed results for the period that ended in December, slightly missing top line expectations while beating bottom line...
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4.3KEarningsMastercard Earnings To Shed Light On Consumer Spend, X-Border Payments
Investors, analysts and industry observers will parse Mastercard results on the heels of the payment giant’s earnings release Thursday morning to gain...
