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Creating Gig Economy Payments Trust Factor

Creating Gig Economy Payments Trust Factor
Creating Gig Economy Payments Trust Factor
November 06, 2019  |  Gig Economy

FinTech is on the march, and one area where progress is highly visible is in the growing gig economy ecosystem. There, online platforms match workers...

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How SaaS Providers Get Emerging Markets To Subscribe
How SaaS Providers Get Emerging Markets To Subscribe
November 05, 2019  |  Cross-border Payments

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Why Friendly Fraud Is Anything But Friendly
Why Friendly Fraud Is Anything But Friendly
November 05, 2019  |  Fraud Prevention

While there is little good to be said about criminal fraudsters who plague merchants by stealing credentials to snag goods with absolutely no intention of...

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Quantum Computing’s Wright Brothers’ Moment
Quantum Computing’s Wright Brothers’ Moment
November 05, 2019  |  Innovation

On Oct. 23, the team at Google announced it had hit a technological milestone that scientists have been theorizing about for over 30 years: quantum...

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Citi: Turning Digital Payments Acceptance Into A Corporate Cash Management Play
Citi: Turning Digital Payments Acceptance Into A Corporate Cash Management Play
November 05, 2019  |  B2B Payments

As merchants go global, the pressure grows for payment capabilities to localize. That is to say, as organizations expand on an international scale and reach...

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Why Amazon Decided To Bring Alexa Into The Bill Pay Flow
Why Amazon Decided To Bring Alexa Into The Bill Pay Flow
November 04, 2019  |  Amazon

It has happened to almost everyone. The bill comes in the mail — or maybe via email reminder — and the customer says, “Oh, I...

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Ekata CEO: SCA, Pre-Auth And Payments Success In The 2020s
Ekata CEO: SCA, Pre-Auth And Payments Success In The 2020s
November 04, 2019  |  Authentication

Payments is never boring these days, and that holds especially true as a new decade looms, new regulations are kicking in and merchants, card brands...

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GIACT On Payments’ $29M Wire Fraud Wake-Up Call
GIACT On Payments’ $29M Wire Fraud Wake-Up Call
November 04, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

Last week, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s largest financial media organization, Nikkei, made headlines for the reason that no firm ever wants: The company was...

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