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Why Partnerships Matter As ISVs Seek To Provide Merchant Value

Why Partnerships Matter As ISVs Seek To Provide Merchant Value
Why Partnerships Matter As ISVs Seek To Provide Merchant Value
November 21, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Independent software vendors (ISVs) have to navigate a brave new world where megamergers are reshaping financial services. And the decision to offer payments may lure...

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Tech Takes The Emotion Out Of Dispute Management
Tech Takes The Emotion Out Of Dispute Management
November 21, 2019  |  Credit Unions

Where there are credit card transactions, there are disputes. That’s especially true of transactions that happen in a card-not-present environment (as is increasingly the case),...

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Top News In Payments: BB&T, SunTrust Receive Approval For Merger; Wells Fargo Rolls Out RTP Integration
Top News In Payments: BB&T, SunTrust Receive Approval For Merger; Wells Fargo Rolls Out RTP...
November 20, 2019  |  News

In today’s top payments news, SunTrust and BB&T have announced that they have received the regulatory green light to finish their merger to become Truist Financial...

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How Wahlburgers Keeps Fraud Off The Order-Ahead Menu
How Wahlburgers Keeps Fraud Off The Order-Ahead Menu
November 20, 2019  |  Mobile Order Ahead

Mobile order-ahead has had an outsized impact on the entire restaurant industry, with a recent study finding that only 15 percent of restaurant meals are...

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Visa: Keeping Online Merchants Safe From The Pipka Skimmer
Visa: Keeping Online Merchants Safe From The Pipka Skimmer
November 20, 2019  |  VISA

A new version of the card skimmer resides on eCommerce checkout pages, where fraudsters steal consumers' data as it is entered. The newest sinister iteration...

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Can FATF’s New ‘Travel Rule’ Help Build A Better Crypto Ecosystem?
Can FATF’s New ‘Travel Rule’ Help Build A Better Crypto Ecosystem?
November 20, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Among the biggest problems for cryptocurrency — if not the biggest — is legitimacy. The world seems to be divided into two camps, at least...

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Why Visually Enabled Retail Is Fast Coming Into View
Why Visually Enabled Retail Is Fast Coming Into View
November 20, 2019  |  Retail

It’s not only shopping that is getting more visual via new and emerging technologies, a trend that promises to get more intense in the 2020s,...

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How ‘Me2Me’ Became FinServ’s New ‘Sticky’
How ‘Me2Me’ Became FinServ’s New ‘Sticky’
November 19, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Once upon a (very recent) time, if customers needed financial services of any kind, they went to their bank. From investing to storing funds to...

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The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate
The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate
November 19, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. Among the...

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