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Digital River Expands Services, Grows Client Base by 66% in Q2
Digital River Expands Services, Grows Client Base by 66% in Q2
August 31, 2021  |  Business

Global commerce company Digital River, which works with established and fast-growing brands, has announced that it had a new record of clients introduced in the...

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Digitization and Digital Payments Delivering Greater Trust For Indian SMBs
Digitization and Digital Payments Delivering Greater Trust For Indian SMBs
August 31, 2021  |  B2B Payments

Smartphones have rapidly become ubiquitous across the developing world, and hundreds of millions of Indians have come online in the past decade. Get the Full...

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Payables Departments Confront Need To Consumerize Business Payments
Payables Departments Confront Need To Consumerize Business Payments
August 31, 2021  |  B2B Payments

For much of the manufacturing, healthcare, higher education and hospitality sectors, the accounts payable (AP) regimen is still largely an outdated process in which employees...

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Deep Dive: How Banks Are Leveraging APIs to Improve Both Digital and in-Person Banking Services
Deep Dive: How Banks Are Leveraging APIs to Improve Both Digital and in-Person Banking Services
August 31, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Is Not Currency, Says South Africa’s Central Bank Governor; Subprime Mortgage Billionaire John Paulson Says Crypto Will Be Worthless
Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Is Not Currency, Says South Africa’s Central Bank Governor; Subprime Mortgage Billionaire...
August 31, 2021  |  Bitcoin

Reactions to cryptocurrencies have been mixed across the world. While countries like El Salvador have embraced bitcoin and classified the marquee cryptocurrency as legal currency,...

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Prosus Reaches $4.7B Deal For India’s BillDesk
Prosus Reaches $4.7B Deal For India’s BillDesk
August 31, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Dutch technology investment firm Prosus is closing a $4.7 billion deal to acquire Indian payment firm BillDesk, which Prosus will combine with its FinTech PayU,...

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Canada’s Tech Companies Expect Months’ Delay in Supply Chains
Canada’s Tech Companies Expect Months’ Delay in Supply Chains
August 31, 2021  |  B2B Payments

The pandemic has continued to snarl supply chains and cause shipping woes for businesses with Canadian tech companies hit hard, according to Yahoo on Monday...

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Europe is Ripe for Instant Payments Where 73% of All Transactions are Still Done in Cash
Europe is Ripe for Instant Payments Where 73% of All Transactions are Still Done in...
August 31, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Agnostic is a word that European Payments Council (EPC) Director General Etienne Goosse often uses to describe the mandate of the payments association that counts...

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Zero Trust, Mobile Banking and the Age of Continuous Authentication
Zero Trust, Mobile Banking and the Age of Continuous Authentication
August 31, 2021  |  Authentication

Right now — and this might surprise you — desktop internet banking still reigns supreme, largely because so many of us have been working from...

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