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Walgreens To Roll Out Co-Branded Cards With Mastercard, Synchrony

Walgreens To Roll Out Co-Branded Cards With Mastercard, Synchrony
Walgreens To Roll Out Co-Branded Cards With Mastercard, Synchrony
January 13, 2021  |  Retail

Amid its continuing commitment to provide healthcare offerings and benefits to shoppers, Walgreens is growing its financial services offering with the help of Synchrony and...

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FinTech Rapyd Closes $300 Million Series D Led By Coatue
FinTech Rapyd Closes $300 Million Series D Led By Coatue
January 13, 2021  |  Investments

Business-to-Business FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS) startup Rapyd has notched $300 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue and including both new and existing investors....

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FinTechs, FIs Uniting Over Distributed Banking For Disbursements
FinTechs, FIs Uniting Over Distributed Banking For Disbursements
January 13, 2021  |  Disbursements

Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards recently told PYMNTS that “Historically, banks have viewed FinTechs through an ‘us versus them’ lens — and rightly so, because,...

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Toshiba Rolls Out Unified Commerce Platform For Retailers
Toshiba Rolls Out Unified Commerce Platform For Retailers
January 13, 2021  |  Retail

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions unveiled its ELERA unified commerce platform that will let merchants operate without the bounds of traditional retail IT infrastructures, according to...

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Why Annual Forecasting Has Gone ‘Out The Window’ For CFOs
Why Annual Forecasting Has Gone ‘Out The Window’ For CFOs
January 13, 2021  |  B2B Payments

At the start of 2020, chief financial officers and their finance teams were going about business as normal, developing forecasts on a yearly or periodic...

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How Cargomatic Leverages Geocoding To Meet Pandemic-Driven Supply Chain Challenges
How Cargomatic Leverages Geocoding To Meet Pandemic-Driven Supply Chain Challenges
January 13, 2021  |  Digital Onboarding

Eighty-four percent of consumers say they would abandon a merchant after just one failed delivery attempt. In The Digital Consumer Onboarding Tracker, Sunil Sharma, chief...

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How EDI Keeps The Invoice Data Flowing
How EDI Keeps The Invoice Data Flowing
January 13, 2021  |  B2B Payments

Data sharing with business partners, particularly suppliers, has evolved from a beneficial strategy that drives efficiency, to a vital way to keep business operations moving...

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Google Allocates $3 Million To Counter Vaccine Misinformation
Google Allocates $3 Million To Counter Vaccine Misinformation
January 13, 2021  |  Coronavirus

The Google News Initiative (GNI) is rolling out a new open fund for up to $3 million to combat misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, a blog...

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Visa’s Phalen: SMBs Remain Optimistic; Data Shows Digital Tools Bring New Customers
Visa’s Phalen: SMBs Remain Optimistic; Data Shows Digital Tools Bring New Customers
January 13, 2021  |  SMBs

The pandemic was a crushing blow for SMBs, with many of them pushed to the edge of survival and beyond. Still others rolled up their...

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