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Mastercard And Unilever’s Micro-Lending Has Macro Results For Kenyan SMBs

Mastercard And Unilever’s Micro-Lending Has Macro Results For Kenyan SMBs
Mastercard And Unilever’s Micro-Lending Has Macro Results For Kenyan SMBs
May 07, 2018  |  International

Building, sustaining and growing a small business isn’t easy in the best of circumstances. Even in a developed economy, margins are narrow, and tough decisions...

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FitPay CEO: Tokenization And Wearables Mean Identities Are Our Data  
FitPay CEO: Tokenization And Wearables Mean Identities Are Our Data  
May 07, 2018  |  News

Beyond the fitness tracker, wearables are catching on.  Get ready for the device as data conduit, as tracker of different sorts, from patient information to...

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CO-OP Network President: Shared Branching And Credit Union Service Ubiquity
CO-OP Network President: Shared Branching And Credit Union Service Ubiquity
May 07, 2018  |  Data Dive

Consumers, on the whole, really like doing business with their credit unions. According to the latest iteration of the Credit Union Tracker, 81 percent of credit union customers report being highly satisfied...

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Propel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles
Propel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles
May 04, 2018  |  Retail

An app designed to make life easier for food stamp recipients is expanding the commerce-related services it offers to low-income Americans, but a new challenge...

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Letting The Air(TM) Out Of Venezuelan Hyperinflation
Letting The Air(TM) Out Of Venezuelan Hyperinflation
May 04, 2018  |  Latin America

Hyperinflation has driven the Venezuelan Bolivar to near uselessness. How are individuals supposed to save and manage money when their currency is hemorrhaging value? AirTM...

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Mastercard Results Outpace Street As Cross-Border Volumes Top 21 Percent
Mastercard Results Outpace Street As Cross-Border Volumes Top 21 Percent
May 03, 2018  |  Mastercard

Credit and debit spend higher? For Mastercard the answer was a resounding yes, as the global consumer remains quick to buy with plastic, and online...

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Billtrust And Flywire Partner To Deliver End-To-End Cross-Border B2B Payments
Billtrust And Flywire Partner To Deliver End-To-End Cross-Border B2B Payments
May 03, 2018  |  B2B Payments

As more businesses go global —paying each other across borders — they’re learning that getting payments where they want them to go quickly, predictably, transparently...

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The Role Of Customer Service In Strengthening The Processor/Merchant Bond
The Role Of Customer Service In Strengthening The Processor/Merchant Bond
May 03, 2018  |  Merchant Innovation

Customer service matters in all walks of business, to consumers and businesses alike, but especially so in payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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