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PayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone

PayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone
PayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone
May 29, 2019  |  Loans

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have...

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To Limit Or Not To Limit? The Instant Earned-Wage Access Debate
To Limit Or Not To Limit? The Instant Earned-Wage Access Debate
May 29, 2019  |  Faster Payments

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Could Income Share Agreements Displace Payday Loans?
Could Income Share Agreements Displace Payday Loans?
May 29, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

Income sharing is not a common method of financing as of 2019 — though, as of late, it has begun to get much more interest...

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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’
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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