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5.0KB2B PaymentsExpense Analytics Targets The Boondoggle
“Boondoggle” may be a funny word, but to corporations, its effects are serious. Wasted, unnecessary spend is a cash flow trap, yet...
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9.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWestern Union CEO: Speedpay Sale Speeds Way To X-Border Payments Growth
The year 2019 is already shaping up as a big year for deal-making in financial services and payments. Western Union, of course,...
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7.6KFraud PreventionWhen Synthetic IDs Are As Good As The Real Thing
It’s no secret that digital criminals are becoming more sophisticated. So are the fraud defenses deployed by merchants, payment service providers and...
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8.2KDeliveryWhy Retailers Are Crowdsourcing Delivery
Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid...
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9.8KInternet of ThingsAs The IoT Grows, Can It Overcome Security Problems?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about much more than the actual things, of course. All those “smart” appliances, speakers, TVs, vehicles,...
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4.1KRetailHow fiid Wants To Deliver Fast, Easy Vegan Meals For ‘Hopeless Cooks’
While not every food startup is owned by a chef, the words “hopeless cook” don’t come up all that often among culinary...
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3.9KRetailHow Digital Ticket Marketplaces Are Going Into Overtime
Digital marketplaces are zeroing in on customers looking to score last-minutes ticket to events. Gametime, a platform that connects buyers and sellers,...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsWhy Smarter Freight Payments Begin With The Invoice
Money drives any business, but in the freight and logistics market, business cannot occur until funds are moved. Considering how crucial seamless...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsAsia, Emerging Markets See Digital, Blockchain Payment Initiatives
Payment infrastructure announcements this week saw memorandums of understanding between Mastercard and Angaza, meant to bring digital payments to emerging markets. Elsewhere,...
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7.1KEarningsAdyen CEO Tells Analysts: ‘We Don’t Lose Customers To Anyone’
Dutch payments processor Adyen logged a Q4 earnings report that came in above analyst expectations. Adyen processes payments for such household names...
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9.0KAPICiti: Pre-Validation Can Speed Cross-Border Payments
Demand for real-time payments is on the rise around the globe, and financial, tech and retail players are angling for a chance...
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5.2KRisk ManagementAll The World’s A Stage For (Prudent) FX Risk Management
Risk has rewards in all parts of life, but especially in business, where shrewd risk-taking and planning accrues to the bottom line....
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5.9KEarningsSquare: 51 Pct Of GPV Comes From Larger Sellers
Square's Q4 results showed gross payment volume (GPV) up 28 percent year on year, driven by larger sellers representing more than half...
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13.4KRegulationFTC Puts Smackdown On Fake Online Reviews
One cannot have the good without the bad, and that holds especially true, it seems, with online product reviews — a vital,...
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5.5KRetailHow Handset Makers Are Trying To Keep Customers
In the span of about a decade, the smartphone has gone from revolutionary technology to an everyday tool that everyone on Earth...
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4.9KeCommerceFor eCommerce Content, It’s Experiences Over Speed
Among the main virtues of this golden era of eCommerce and digital payments is speed. Seemingly instant access to extremely specific product...
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3.6KInternationalBrexit Delay May Loom, But What’s Next?
After the delay, the deluge? As has been widely reported, in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed to a deal that...
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3.6KRetailOuter On Tapping D2C ‘Neighborhood Showrooms’ For eFurniture
In an age of eCommerce brands opening up pop-up shops and permanent stores, some companies are taking a different approach to showcasing...
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5.0KAuthenticationDeep Dive: Digital ID Developments From Around The World
National identification systems are moving behind physical documents. Several global markets are integrating biometric data — including facial recognition and fingerprints —...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsIndustry 4.0 Pulls South Africa’s SMB Banking Sector Into The Technology Mix
The South African economy has struggled in the last decade. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth has failed to surpass 4 percent, with...
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6.6KB2B PaymentsUK Retailers Press For Commercial Card Interchange Fee Caps
The European Union’s (EU’s) battle against U.S. card company interchange fees reached new levels earlier this year when the European Commission (EC)...
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6.4KOmnicommerceWhy Retail Needs To Better Tap The Power Of Chat
Given its reach into literally every corner of the globe, it is not much of an exaggeration to say that we are...
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6.6KConsumer FinanceOn Capitol Hill, Credit Bureau CEOs Say Reporting Changes Are In the Air
Lawmakers grilled the heads of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, calling the credit reporting a “broken” system — and new legislation introduced this...
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6.3KDisbursementsHow Consumers Rate The State Of US Disbursements
There might be one word that consumers would use to describe the state of disbursements in early 2019: mediocre. Millennial consumers probably...
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9.5KResTechYelp Seats 22M Diners in December
For Yelp, it’s food for thought. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Feb. 26) that the firm, known for its reviews from users across...
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4.1KEarningsWorldpay’s Tech Solutions Sales Up 21 Pct In Q4
Worldpay reported results for the fourth quarter of 2018 that topped expectations, marked by organic growth in its core payments processing operations....
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4.3KGoogleGoogle Sees Payments Potential In Subscription Gaming
Among the biggest games in eCommerce is, well, games, and that includes subscription streaming services along with the payments that go along...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsCrypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments
When the state of Ohio partnered with cryptocurrency company BitPay last year, it meant the state would become the first in the...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsHow Nonprofits Can Turn T&E Into A Donation Driver
When a company realizes it’s time to improve its corporate travel and expense (T&E) management strategy, there are a few items on...
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6.5KB2B PaymentsIn South Korea: Calls For Greater Bank, FinTech Collaboration
Bank and non-bank collaboration gets a boost in South Korea through an interbank payment network and sandbox. Elsewhere, individual FinTech company initiatives shine...
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6.3KAlternative FinancesWhat Smart, Conversational AI Adds To Credit Scoring
Traditional credit-scoring models have not had it easy in the court of public opinion over the last few years. The complaints vary in...
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6.7KBankingWhy ‘Mobile-First’ Must Mean ‘Trust-Always’
Trust is inherent in banking, and has been since the beginning, when people decided to store coins and bills in vaults. Entersekt SVP...
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7.9KSubscription CommerceHow Payments Have Ignited Subscription eCommerce
Subscription commerce has come a long way since book-of-the-month clubs and those record and cassette retailers that tempted teenagers with seeming impossible...
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4.3KDaily Data DiveData Dive, Hitting Some Hurdles Edition: Apple, Etsy and Lyft
In life there are few shortcuts — and on occasion when a difficulty is encountered on the map there is no way...
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4.6KAmazonA Game Of Margins — Making The Move To Fulfillment By Amazon
As sellers on the Amazon marketplace await possible fee changes for that platform — and consider if selling via rival marketplace might...
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3.8KRetailHow Seeing Data More Clearly Helped GlassesUSA.com’s Sales Spike
GlassesUSA.com, a web-based prescription eyewear dealer, launched in 2009. But despite its near decade in business, as of about a year ago,...
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6.1KRegulationFinTechs Press States To Streamline Regulations
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) said earlier this month that it had put in place a set of action items...
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7.4KB2B PaymentsLate Payment Penalties In India Include Prison Time
In India, government efforts to crack down on late payments made to smaller firms include fines and possible imprisonment for officers of...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsCYBG Snubbed For RBS Funds
After months of controversy, the U.K.’s Banking Competition Remedies has awarded the first batches of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s $1 billion...
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28.3KIntelligence of ThingsHow IoT Payments Make The Old (Transaction) New Again
There’s room for payment technology providers to marry speed and safety as IoT transforms the way consumers receive and make payments. According...
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9.4KBankingGreen Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’
It’s easy to mistake the trappings of success for stability. Beautiful office buildings, favorable earnings reports, an international presence and a growing global team...
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9.6KNewsVenmo, Girl Scouts And Bitcoin: The Week In Unexpected Upsides
Usually when we talk about unintended consequences here at PYMNTS, we are talking about something that has gone terribly wrong, or at...
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6.4KBankingMoody’s Says Corporate Debt Is High, But Risks Are Contained
According to recent data from Moody’s investor services, corporate leverage in the U.S. has reached pre-2008 levels, meaning banks are facing risk...
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10.7KDeliveryShakeout For India’s Food Delivery Arena?
In India, food delivery done via app is perhaps leading to a shakeout in a build vs. buy debate that near term...
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Is Amazon Planning A ‘Megafleet’ For Electric Delivery?
Pretty much anything Amazon does impacts so much else — and that truth, one of the longest-standing in the world of commerce...
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7.9KInternationalMastercard In Renewed China Push
Mastercard, in an effort to gain entry into the Chinese market, is looking toward a joint venture that may help the card...
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5.2KInnovationQSRs Speed Ahead With Delivery — But The Road Remains Long
Nothing ruins an evening — or a morning, an afternoon or even an entire weekend day — than food delivery that gets it...
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11.9KInvestmentsOptions A Windfall For Pre-IPO Firms’ Employees?
Stock options drum up images of the dot-com era, of IPO riches reaped for getting in on the ground floor of a...
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4.3KEarningsEarnings Show Power Of Digital Commerce — And Cash At The ATM
Continuing in the tradition of PYMNTS earnings roundups: Walmart’s eCommerce efforts, including grocery delivery and pickup options, soared in the fourth quarter...
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4.2KRetailThe Lure Of Laundry On Demand
It is hard to oversell the value of a good catchphrase when it comes to capturing consumers. The ability to elicit an...
