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Visa CyberSource: AI’s Role Is To ‘Predict’ — Not To ‘Know’

Visa CyberSource: AI’s Role Is To ‘Predict’ — Not To ‘Know’
Visa CyberSource: AI’s Role Is To ‘Predict’ — Not To ‘Know’
May 28, 2019  |  VISA

Marvin Minsky, cognitive scientist and co-founder of MIT’s AI lab, said decades ago that computers can only do what we tell them to do.  Scott...

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Closing In On Contactless Payments’ Tipping Point
Closing In On Contactless Payments’ Tipping Point
May 28, 2019  |  Digital Payments

Contactless payments have yet to achieve critical mass in the U.S., at only about 3 percent of transactions, according to NMI. Nick Starai, chief strategy...

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OpenFin’s Plans To Bridge The Financial Services Desktop App Gap
OpenFin’s Plans To Bridge The Financial Services Desktop App Gap
May 28, 2019  |  Innovation

Building and deploying new apps for the financial desktops that keep Wall Street humming can be friction-filled endeavors. Traders and analysts juggle tasks across several platforms,...

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Tariff Battle May See Mounting Retail Casualties
Tariff Battle May See Mounting Retail Casualties
May 27, 2019  |  Cross Border Commerce

Trade wars leave casualties on the economic battlefield, wounding balance sheets and earnings as the costs to import (and sell) goods mounts. That’s especially true...

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Can P2P Retail Be A Thing?
Can P2P Retail Be A Thing?
May 27, 2019  |  Retail

Starting a store, even a digital store, can be an awful lot of work. While the digital economy is full of firms like Square, Stripe,...

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How Down To Shop Channels Infomercial Love Into A QVC-For-Gen-Z App
How Down To Shop Channels Infomercial Love Into A QVC-For-Gen-Z App
May 24, 2019  |  Retail

Home shopping tends to take a lot of teasing. However, even in the eCommerce world of 2019, it still manages to be a surprisingly lucrative...

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For Merchant Processing, A Guiding Key Principle: Reliability
For Merchant Processing, A Guiding Key Principle: Reliability
May 24, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Merchants that sign on with firms to process their payments expect to get their funds consistently and constantly. Neil Randel, CEO of First American Payment...

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Why Office Lobbies Are Saying Bye-Bye To Paper Logbooks
Why Office Lobbies Are Saying Bye-Bye To Paper Logbooks
May 24, 2019  |  Innovation

Look no further than the lobby of a typical office building for a glimpse of the living past — along with a potential vision of...

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Bank/FinTech Harmony Sets Stage For AP Automation
Bank/FinTech Harmony Sets Stage For AP Automation
May 23, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The B2B space needs to transform from paper-based to automated process — and nowhere is this more apparent than with accounts payable (AP). As Jessica Moran,...

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