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Citi: Innovating Trade Finance Requires Instant Payments, Digital Platforms
Citi: Innovating Trade Finance Requires Instant Payments, Digital Platforms
November 29, 2021  |  Faster Payments

Tech is changing treasury — and, by extension, global payments. “Fundamentally the bar has been raised across the board,” Shahmir Khaliq, global head of treasury...

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Surcharging Becoming More Acceptable to Merchants, Cardholders
Surcharging Becoming More Acceptable to Merchants, Cardholders
November 29, 2021  |  Credit Cards

As consumers learn more about the costs of accepting credit cards, they’re getting more comfortable with the practice of paying surcharges for the sake of...

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Merchants Use Data, Payment Tech to Reduce Costs, Increase Online Global Sales
Merchants Use Data, Payment Tech to Reduce Costs, Increase Online Global Sales
November 24, 2021  |  eCommerce

There’s been an explosion of businesses interested in expanding their online sales outside of their domestic markets, and the pandemic has played an important role...

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Direct Credit Card Issuing Helps Small Banks, Credit Unions Compete With Larger FI Rivals
Direct Credit Card Issuing Helps Small Banks, Credit Unions Compete With Larger FI Rivals
November 23, 2021  |  Credit Unions

Long stuck with cookie-cutter credit issuing capabilities due to their size, staffing, partners and geographical limits, small financial institutions (FIs) have been at a distinct...

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Data Unlocks New Path to Purchase for Online Merchants
Data Unlocks New Path to Purchase for Online Merchants
November 19, 2021  |  Retail

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been two categories of merchants in terms of how they have been impacted and how they see...

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Inflation, Disappearing Stimulus Payments Push Paycheck to Paycheck Consumer Ranks Higher
Inflation, Disappearing Stimulus Payments Push Paycheck to Paycheck Consumer Ranks Higher
November 18, 2021  |  Consumer Payments

The holidays are upon us and beyond the festive urge to spend, some troubling signs point to the fact that if we keep charging the...

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Banking’s Online Bill Pay Gets Ready for a Reboot
Banking’s Online Bill Pay Gets Ready for a Reboot
November 15, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

Flexible finances are more or less a given in today’s world. Consumers have access to multiple digital wallets, credit cards and all manner of other...

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Keeping Transactions Secure Is Key to Making Business Payments Invisible
Keeping Transactions Secure Is Key to Making Business Payments Invisible
November 08, 2021  |  Security & Fraud

Today’s most powerful technologies are those where the processes behind that innovation are hidden or invisible from users’ consciousness. When done right, this high-functioning tech...

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Legitimate Online Gambling Sites Bet on Digital ID and Data to Win Against Cybercrime
Legitimate Online Gambling Sites Bet on Digital ID and Data to Win Against Cybercrime
November 08, 2021  |  Security & Fraud

Online gambling has had big payoffs for legitimate operators thanks to pandemic boredom, growing from a $64 billion market in 2020 to roughly $72 billion...

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