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Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives

Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
April 29, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

By the numbers, Americans are not a very financially literate people.  According to a Standard & Poor’s Global Financial Literacy survey only about 57 percent...

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Payments 2022: Why Payments Is Make-Or-Break For Digital Platforms
Payments 2022: Why Payments Is Make-Or-Break For Digital Platforms
April 29, 2019  |  Payments As A Service

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What’s Next For C-Stores: Buy In-App, Deliver Pumpside
What’s Next For C-Stores: Buy In-App, Deliver Pumpside
April 29, 2019  |  Gas Station Retail

Those history teachers were right after all — to better understand the future, one must first understand the past. In the particular case of convenience...

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How To Move Past Artificial Intelligence #Fails
How To Move Past Artificial Intelligence #Fails
April 26, 2019  |  Innovation

The story of artificial intelligence to this point – at least when it comes to financial institutions – is arguably more about failure than success, even...

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Amazon Prime To Get One Day Shipping
Amazon Prime To Get One Day Shipping
April 26, 2019  |  Earnings

Amazon offered something of a mixed bag for investors when it announced its earnings on Thursday (April 25). First quarter profits of $3.6 billion, or...

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Can P2P Payments Make Divorce Less Painful?
Can P2P Payments Make Divorce Less Painful?
April 26, 2019  |  Digital Payments

When digital payments and commerce professionals talk about “friction,” they usually mean reducing barriers that make a consumer pause before buying a new pair of...

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Fraudsters’ Latest Target: Dead People
Fraudsters’ Latest Target: Dead People
April 25, 2019  |  Fraud Prevention

Back in the golden olden days of print newspapers, bad guys would regularly read the obituaries, then craft a plan to break into houses and...

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B2B And Contactless Drive Visa Earnings
B2B And Contactless Drive Visa Earnings
April 25, 2019  |  Earnings

Cross-border results slowed, and various currencies were headwinds to at least some international results, but spending on cards continued as Visa posted earnings that topped...

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Why Checking The Age Verification Box Online Isn’t Enough
Why Checking The Age Verification Box Online Isn’t Enough
April 25, 2019  |  Authentication

For a lot of businesses, “advanced age verification” isn’t really all that advanced. Instead, the industry standard is a pop-up window that says something to the...

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