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Brite Expands Instant A2A Payments, Payouts Solutions to Germany
Brite Expands Instant A2A Payments, Payouts Solutions to Germany
April 24, 2024  |  Faster Payments

Brite Payments now enables instant account-to-account (A2A) payments and payouts in Germany. The Swedish FinTech already offers these Brite Instant Payments in the Nordics, Baltics...

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DOT: Airlines Must Automatically Refund Canceled Flights
DOT: Airlines Must Automatically Refund Canceled Flights
April 24, 2024  |  Travel Payments

Airlines must automatically refund travelers for canceled flights under a new Department of Transportation rule. This rule, announced Wednesday (April 24) is designed to make it easier for passengers...

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CFPB Head Wary of Big Credit Card Mergers
CFPB Head Wary of Big Credit Card Mergers
April 24, 2024  |  Credit Cards

America’s leading consumer finance watchdog is skeptical about giant mergers between credit card companies. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra expressed these worries in a Wednesday...

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HubSpot and Stripe Optimize Digital Payments for Small Businesses
HubSpot and Stripe Optimize Digital Payments for Small Businesses
April 24, 2024  |  SMBs

Small businesses don’t want embracing modern technology to be a big, technical lift. After all, these Main Street-style companies are increasingly busy building out their...

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DOJ: Ex-Binance Head Deserves 3 Years in Prison
DOJ: Ex-Binance Head Deserves 3 Years in Prison
April 24, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

Federal prosecutors want former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to spend three years in prison. The one-time head of the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform deserves this sentence, the Department...

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PayU Vet Mario Shiliashki Picked to Lead myPOS
PayU Vet Mario Shiliashki Picked to Lead myPOS
April 24, 2024  |  Personnel

Small-business-focused payments/card solutions company myPOS has named Mario Shiliashki as its new CEO. Shiliashki, the company announced Wednesday (April 24) in a news release provided...

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Discover Global Network Looks to Customer Shifts to Define Innovation
Discover Global Network Looks to Customer Shifts to Define Innovation
April 24, 2024  |  Payment Methods

Technological transformation is at the heart of both modern commerce and payments innovation. With technology as the driving force, consumers are demanding more than transactions...

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Financing Options Help Merchants and Consumers Manage Economic Uncertainty
Financing Options Help Merchants and Consumers Manage Economic Uncertainty
April 24, 2024  |  Opinion

Consumer financing solutions can help businesses build trust and loyalty with consumers, Versatile Credit CEO Ed O’Donnell writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “The Implications...

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Working Capital Index Finds Central Europe and EMEA Ripe for Growth
Working Capital Index Finds Central Europe and EMEA Ripe for Growth
April 24, 2024  |  VISA

Working capital enables companies to avoid disturbances in operations in the short term and power growth in the long term. In the Central Europe, Middle...

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