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Sri Lanka Is Gearing Up To Adopt Chip Card System

Sri Lanka Is Gearing Up To Adopt Chip Card System
Sri Lanka Is Gearing Up To Adopt Chip Card System
September 12, 2016  |  Cross-border Payments

Sri Lanka, aiming to develop a national payment system by 2020, is moving to adopt a chip card system before the end of 2017. According to a...

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FIS Partners With CO-OP To Expand Cardless Cash
FIS Partners With CO-OP To Expand Cardless Cash
September 12, 2016  |  Partnerships

FIS, the financial services technology company, announced on Friday (Sept. 9) it has partnered with CO-OP Financial Services to expand Cardless Cash to CO-OP ATM’s...

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Courage, Cowboys, Commerce — And Tim Gunn
Courage, Cowboys, Commerce — And Tim Gunn
September 10, 2016  |  Retail

Whatever you think of the iPhone 7 and AirPods, you have to hand it to Apple’s head of marketing, Philip Schiller, for his explanation for why...

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Why Silicon Valley Has Its Eye On Nigeria
Why Silicon Valley Has Its Eye On Nigeria
September 09, 2016  |  Cross-border Payments

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg visited sub-Saharan Africa for the first time in August, shining a huge spotlight on the growing tech center within Nigeria. Not...

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Bitcoin Blushing With Secret Admirers
Bitcoin Blushing With Secret Admirers
September 09, 2016  |  Bitcoin

Bitcoin news this week will appeal to the more sensitive type, with news of young love and commitment. Investors in the digital currency are buying...

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Hyperwallet Unveils One-Click ‘Go-Live’ Implementation
Hyperwallet Unveils One-Click ‘Go-Live’ Implementation
September 09, 2016  |  Payments Innovation

Hyperwallet will present new implementation methods at the upcoming API World developer conference to help deliver improved and faster integrations. Get the Full Story Complete...

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Wells Fargo Takes Incentives Too Far
PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Wells Fargo Takes Incentives Too Far
September 09, 2016  |  Cybersecurity

Incentives are a way to optimize productivity and boost morale among employees, but the program instituted by Wells Fargo went seriously awry. In efforts to...

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Williams-Sonoma Pursues Co-Branded Card
Williams-Sonoma Pursues Co-Branded Card
September 09, 2016  |  Retail

Williams-Sonoma’s existing credit card portfolio will be acquired by Alliance Data, a Columbus, Ohio-based credit card services business, to provide a private-label, co-branded credit card...

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