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Circle CEO: Crypto’s Growth Depends On Improved Settlement Process

Circle CEO: Crypto’s Growth Depends On Improved Settlement Process
Circle CEO: Crypto’s Growth Depends On Improved Settlement Process
April 21, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency drumbeat continues to build. Coinbase has gone public. PayPal and Venmo allow customers to buy, sell and store cryptocurrencies.  Tesla lets consumers use bitcoin...

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Digital-First Economy Requires Global View And Local Strategy
Digital-First Economy Requires Global View And Local Strategy
April 21, 2021  |  Digital Payments

More brands are making the digital shift, embracing eCommerce more fully than ever before, allowing them to enter new markets around the globe, across borders...

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Payment Orchestrators Address Friction On Business Side Of Transactions
Payment Orchestrators Address Friction On Business Side Of Transactions
April 21, 2021  |  Payment Methods

For consumers, the payments industry has worked hard to take the friction out of every transaction. Look no further than contactless payments and their development...

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PNC Sees Side Benefits From New Overdraft Protection Tool
PNC Sees Side Benefits From New Overdraft Protection Tool
April 21, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

It would be difficult to find something more universally hated among banking consumers than overdraft fees. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Restaurant Digital Ordering Platform Expands Into Live Events
Restaurant Digital Ordering Platform Expands Into Live Events
April 20, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

Before the pandemic, fear of touching items that others had touched was the near-exclusive purview of germaphobes. Now, living through a pandemic, even those of...

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Behavioral Analytics Helps Insurance Providers Fight Fraud And Friction
Behavioral Analytics Helps Insurance Providers Fight Fraud And Friction
April 20, 2021  |  Authentication

Every online interaction a customer has with a company can be assessed to measure customers’ intent and be turned into actionable insights that businesses can...

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Mercado Pago’s Digital Accounts Open New Doors To LATAM’s Connected Economy
Mercado Pago’s Digital Accounts Open New Doors To LATAM’s Connected Economy
April 20, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Take a short trip back in time, back to the dawn of the Internet era in the late ’90s. Argentina was not a country known...

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Real-Time Payment Rails Provide Global Conduit For Innovations And Use Cases
Real-Time Payment Rails Provide Global Conduit For Innovations And Use Cases
April 20, 2021  |  Faster Payments

When it comes to payments, the need for speed is a global phenomenon. Real-time payments have gained tremendous traction all over the world during the...

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Healthcare Providers Pick Up The Digital Pace
Healthcare Providers Pick Up The Digital Pace
April 20, 2021  |  Healthcare

It wasn’t a physician who said, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It was a revolutionary with a second-grade education named...

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