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Buy Now, Pay Later Bulks Up With New Verticals and Bigger Ticket Sizes

Buy Now, Pay Later Bulks Up With New Verticals and Bigger Ticket Sizes
Buy Now, Pay Later Bulks Up With New Verticals and Bigger Ticket Sizes
December 09, 2021  |  Buy Now Pay Later

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) wave first formed around relatively inexpensive fashion and beauty goods, but industry watchers keep looking for new use cases...

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Credit Unions Mix Personal Service, 24/7 Digital Support to Win Small Business Customers
Credit Unions Mix Personal Service, 24/7 Digital Support to Win Small Business Customers
December 09, 2021  |  Credit Unions

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LSE Professor: Big Tech Requires New Thinking, Global Cooperation
LSE Professor: Big Tech Requires New Thinking, Global Cooperation
December 09, 2021  |  Big Tech

In the 20th century, local distribution was the epitome of monopoly power when it came to essential services. The telephone company, the power company and...

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Why Robots Will Staff the Restaurant of the Future
Why Robots Will Staff the Restaurant of the Future
December 09, 2021  |  Restaurant innovation

What if someone told you that within a decade, a large number — perhaps even a majority — of national quick-service restaurants (QSRs), fast-food chains and even...

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Consumers Bring Domestic eCommerce Demands to Growing Cross-Border Transactions
Consumers Bring Domestic eCommerce Demands to Growing Cross-Border Transactions
December 09, 2021  |  Cross-border Payments

More than a decade ago, when cosmetics company 100% Pure was starting to sell internationally, it ran a separate website for each country, which “was...

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Private Equity Firm Accel-KKR Invests in Entersekt to Boost Device Authentication, Security
Private Equity Firm Accel-KKR Invests in Entersekt to Boost Device Authentication, Security
December 09, 2021  |  Investments

Entersekt, which works in device identity and authentication, has seen an investment from Accel-KKR, which works in private equity, the companies announced Thursday (Dec. 9)....

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Real Estate Transactions Are Complicated But Real Estate Payments Don’t Need To Be
Real Estate Transactions Are Complicated But Real Estate Payments Don’t Need To Be
December 09, 2021  |  B2B Payments

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Eliminating ‘Biometric Bias’ Will Take Collective Effort From Banks, Retailers and Consumers
Eliminating ‘Biometric Bias’ Will Take Collective Effort From Banks, Retailers and Consumers
December 09, 2021  |  Biometrics

Picture, for a moment, the biometrics you might use every day — perhaps every time you unlock your phone. The thought of bias — exclusion...

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Fortis Buys VIP Integrated Payments to Boost ERP, VAR Business
Fortis Buys VIP Integrated Payments to Boost ERP, VAR Business
December 08, 2021  |  B2B Payments

Fortis, the payments and commerce tech company, has acquired VIP Integrated Payments, which will help it simplify payments and cash flow for digitizing businesses, a...

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