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The Future Of Payments Transformation
The Future Of Payments Transformation
September 28, 2016  |  Payments Innovation

Legacy banking systems are, well, legacy systems. Robust, but notoriously inflexible and slow to change. That’s a problem for financial institutions looking to grow revenue...

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Braintree/PayPal’s Happy Three-Year Acqui-versary
Braintree/PayPal’s Happy Three-Year Acqui-versary
September 27, 2016  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Acquisitions tend to generate a lot of heat and headlines when first announced — usually accompanied by the perfunctory press releases about potential being unlocked and all...

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How Pokémon GO Became A Hacker’s Playground
How Pokémon GO Became A Hacker’s Playground
September 27, 2016  |  Security & Fraud

Pokémon GO has literally become a total mobile game-changer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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Chase’s Push Into SMB Lending
Chase’s Push Into SMB Lending
September 27, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Banks, especially big ones, aren’t all that interested in lending money to SMBs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Rent Payments With Benefits?
Rent Payments With Benefits?
September 26, 2016  |  Payments As A Service

Can a rent payment be its own reward? The latest issue of the Payments as a Service Tracker™ features an interview with Philipp Postrehovsky, founder...

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Beyond The Need For Payments Speed
Beyond The Need For Payments Speed
September 26, 2016  |  PYMNTS Topic TBD

As a concept, faster payments makes headlines. But in practice, can faster payments change the way consumers and banks interact with one another? In the...

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Square Goes Cardless, Samsung Gets Retinal And Gmail Goes Mobile
Square Goes Cardless, Samsung Gets Retinal And Gmail Goes Mobile
September 26, 2016  |  Data Dive

In something of a strange switch for the news media last week, reporters nationwide decided to split their time between covering both the immediate past...

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SMEs On The Move — Literally
SMEs On The Move — Literally
September 26, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Exposure to globalization can fuel business expansion or threaten it, depending on strategy. Those potentials and threats, however, expand beyond foreign exchange challenges. PYMNTS takes...

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Yahoo Fizzles With History’s Biggest Data Breach
Yahoo Fizzles With History’s Biggest Data Breach
September 23, 2016  |  News

As September is gearing up to go into its last week, the waning warm days of the summer season certainly went out with a bang...

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