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Avoiding The Reputational Risk Of Failure
Avoiding The Reputational Risk Of Failure
August 25, 2016  |  Payments Innovation

With innovation comes risk, and in the complex payments landscape, that risk has the potential to end in failure. But what if you changed the...

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Mobile Payments: Adornments For the U.S., mVisa For The Unbanked In Nigeria
Mobile Payments: Adornments For the U.S., mVisa For The Unbanked In Nigeria
August 25, 2016  |  Mobile Payments

This week, Visa has big news for Nigeria. Adornment is also a theme as corporate activity sees Mary Kay consultants with new Bluetooth readers paired...

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How The Underworld’s Marketplaces Work
How The Underworld’s Marketplaces Work
August 24, 2016  |  Matchmakers

Marketplaces are great at connecting buyers and sellers of all types, including those who ply their trade in the deep dark cyber underworld. Michael Reitblat,...

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VantageScore And The Public Record
VantageScore And The Public Record
August 24, 2016  |  Payment Methods

The three credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and Equifax), under a program called the National Consumer Assistance Plan (NCAP) are looking for ways to improve...

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ID Experts Light Up Portland
ID Experts Light Up Portland
August 24, 2016  |  Fintech Investments

Investor appetite for fintech start-ups has waned recently while concern for cybersecurity is growing. While PwC reports cybersecurity as the fourth greatest health issue in...

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Know Your Customer Redux
Know Your Customer Redux
August 23, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Know Your Customer takes on a very different meaning at WePay. Kurt Bilafer, WePay Global Vice President, talks about how KYC is the only way...

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How Cashless Vending Is Empowering Consumer Choice
How Cashless Vending Is Empowering Consumer Choice
August 23, 2016  |  Vending Machines

Remember when the dollar bill slot was the biggest advance to hit vending machines? Donna Trego, CEO of 63-year-old Coastal Canteen, says that was then,...

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Have Millennials Sworn Off Credit Cards?
Have Millennials Sworn Off Credit Cards?
August 23, 2016  |  Payment Methods

If the latest data from The New York Fed is correct, credit card use has been exploding in the United States of late — a fact that...

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Full-Service Payments: Does Loyalty Trump Ubiquity?
Full-Service Payments: Does Loyalty Trump Ubiquity?
August 23, 2016  |  Payments As A Service

Blood is thicker than water, and when it comes to full-service payments building customer loyalty may also be more important than creating a ubiquitous payments...

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