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Upgrade Card Combines Credit Card Acceptance With Installment Payments Flexibility

Upgrade Card Combines Credit Card Acceptance With Installment Payments Flexibility
Upgrade Card Combines Credit Card Acceptance With Installment Payments Flexibility
October 10, 2019  |  Loans

Twelve years ago, LendingClub Founder Renaud Laplanche built a business to help consumers manage the $800 million in outstanding credit card debt. That product was...

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PingPong: Why Doing Payments Globally Is All About Thinking Locally
PingPong: Why Doing Payments Globally Is All About Thinking Locally
October 10, 2019  |  Cross Border Commerce

The appeal of the global market for both eCommerce buyers and sellers needs little explanation or introduction. As billions of consumers all over the world...

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The Order To Cash Cycle Seeks Its Automated Reinvention
The Order To Cash Cycle Seeks Its Automated Reinvention
October 10, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Managing supply chains and B2B payments means firms have to navigate complex order to cash (O2C) cycles. Brandon Spear, president at MSTS, tells Karen Webster...

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The Push And Pull Of Real-Time Payments
The Push And Pull Of Real-Time Payments
October 10, 2019  |  Faster Payments

With real-time payments spreading throughout the world (perhaps more slowly than expected, but still spreading), the characteristics of pull payments mean they are likely to...

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Visa, Intuit Launch Instant Deposit For SMBs
Visa, Intuit Launch Instant Deposit For SMBs
October 09, 2019  |  Cash

Cash flow is that thing that can keep a business owner or executive up at night — and night after night, after night. Cash flow...

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Getting Invoices Off The CEO’s Desk, Approved — And Paid
Getting Invoices Off The CEO’s Desk, Approved — And Paid
October 09, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The old adage is familiar: The light at the end of the tunnel could be daylight — or another train headed one’s way. Get the...

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How The MENA Gig Economy Provides Global Lessons
How The MENA Gig Economy Provides Global Lessons
October 09, 2019  |  Gig Economy

The gig economy — and digital marketplaces designed to service gig workers and employers — is where so much of the action is these days....

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Why Migrant Workers Need Their Own Financial Services
Why Migrant Workers Need Their Own Financial Services
October 08, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, as of 2018 (the last full year for which data is available), there were 28.2 million foreign-born persons in...

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Top News In Payments: Affirm Rolls Out New App; EU Has Questions For Facebook, Libra Association
Top News In Payments: Affirm Rolls Out New App; EU Has Questions For Facebook, Libra...
October 08, 2019  |  News

Today in the payments news roundup, Affirm has launched a new app that will let customers use the service to pay almost anywhere online or in the real world....

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