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Upcycling Dog Treats Into Sustainable Snacks With eCommerce

Upcycling Dog Treats Into Sustainable Snacks With eCommerce
Upcycling Dog Treats Into Sustainable Snacks With eCommerce
December 11, 2019  |  Retail

To enable pet owners to feed their dogs snacks sourced from sustainable ingredients, innovators are upcycling products that might go to waste. Shameless Pets, in one case,...

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UK Competition Regulator Eyes Amazon Deliveroo Stake
UK Competition Regulator Eyes Amazon Deliveroo Stake
December 11, 2019  |  Retail

The United Kingdom’s regulator on competition and antitrust concerns has signaled that eCommerce giant Amazon’s stake in food delivery service Deliveroo may need additional examination....

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What Treasurers Want From Bank APIs
What Treasurers Want From Bank APIs
December 11, 2019  |  API

Companies often use multiple banking portals, causing headaches for corporate treasurers who must manually pull data from all these sources. But giving treasurers application programming...

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Mobile Card Apps: The Future Isn’t Plastic
Mobile Card Apps: The Future Isn’t Plastic
December 11, 2019  |  Payment Methods

It took 70 years for a majority of U.S. adults to possess a credit card, so the warp-speed adoption of mobile card apps has been...

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Cannabis Shows Early Signs Of Late Supplier Payments Struggle
Cannabis Shows Early Signs Of Late Supplier Payments Struggle
December 11, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The gradual legalization of cannabis in the U.S. and elsewhere has opened up an opportunity not only for new businesses to form, but for those...

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Google Bolsters Healthcare Cred With Chief Medical Officer Hire
Google Bolsters Healthcare Cred With Chief Medical Officer Hire
December 11, 2019  |  Google

Jacqueline Shreibati, M.D., the chief medical officer for medical device and artificial intelligence (AI) startup AliveCor, is joining the Google Health team, CNBC reported on...

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Visa, MFS Africa Team To Take Mobile Wallets Cross-Border
Visa, MFS Africa Team To Take Mobile Wallets Cross-Border
December 11, 2019  |  VISA

Since the rise of M-Pesa in 2007, mobile money wallets have become prevalent across Africa. And while that addition to the market has made many...

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The Architecture Of A Cross-Border B2B Payment
The Architecture Of A Cross-Border B2B Payment
December 11, 2019  |  B2B Payments

For years, any attention given to solving B2B payments friction was typically focused on the payer. Yet, as innovators have chip away at friction points,...

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Why P2P Could Soon Play A Leading Role In Middle East FinTech
Why P2P Could Soon Play A Leading Role In Middle East FinTech
December 11, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in...

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