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Why Context Makes Virtual Assistants Smart Digital Bankers

Why Context Makes Virtual Assistants Smart Digital Bankers
Why Context Makes Virtual Assistants Smart Digital Bankers
October 30, 2018  |  Digital Banking

AI and ML-powered services can help fight banking fraud. However, to layer the tech into viable solutions to assist customers with banking, robo-advisors need to...

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Why Legacy Banks Have Mobile App Advantages
Why Legacy Banks Have Mobile App Advantages
October 30, 2018  |  Mobile

A consumer’s sense of security and trust can be a funny, even unpredictable thing, especially when it comes to payments, banking and commerce. Get the...

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Thinking ‘Differently’ Than Ant, Pintec Makes Its Post-IPO Plans
Thinking ‘Differently’ Than Ant, Pintec Makes Its Post-IPO Plans
October 29, 2018  |  IPO

Pintec Technology Holdings Limited may not be a household name in the U.S., but it ended last week with a some very strong results on...

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Auto-Tracking Road Warrior Employees As The Wheels Go ‘Round
Auto-Tracking Road Warrior Employees As The Wheels Go ‘Round
October 29, 2018  |  Regulation

A handful of states — most recently Illinois — have changed labor laws and business mileage reimbursement practices. Tracking gas costs, and paying employees for insurance...

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Mapping Fraud’s DNA
Mapping Fraud’s DNA
October 29, 2018  |  Fraud Prevention

Payments and commerce fraud has its own ecosystem, one that includes criminals, servers and other computing devices, IP addresses, compromised payment cards and stolen personal...

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Trick Or Treat (Payments And Commerce Style)
Trick Or Treat (Payments And Commerce Style)
October 27, 2018  |  Commerce

Halloween is the scariest day of the year for children and parents alike – though for very different reasons. For kids, the proliferation of ghosts, goblins,...

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Amazon Shares Skid On Slowing Growth
Amazon Shares Skid On Slowing Growth
October 26, 2018  |  Amazon

There was a lot of positive news in Amazon‘s earnings report — delivery is growing, Prime membership is holding firm despite price increases, its multi-channel...

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Mastercard Tackles ‘Greening’ Plastic Cards
Mastercard Tackles ‘Greening’ Plastic Cards
October 26, 2018  |  Mastercard

The world has a plastic problems — a fact illustrated earlier this week when researchers from the Environment Agency Austria and the Medical University of...

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Grubhub’s Latest Push: College Students And Meal Vouchers
Grubhub’s Latest Push: College Students And Meal Vouchers
October 25, 2018  |  Earnings

Grubhub — fueled by a 67 percent year-over-year increase in active diners in the third quarter, as well as its recent partnership and acquisition deals — said...

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