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Standard Chartered Joins Blockchain Consortium EEA

Standard Chartered Joins Blockchain Consortium EEA
Standard Chartered Joins Blockchain Consortium EEA
November 08, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Standard Chartered announced that it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a standards organization focused on developing open blockchain specifications. Get the Full Story...

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Can There Be An Uber Of Furniture?
Can There Be An Uber Of Furniture?
November 08, 2019  |  Subscription Commerce

This a story about how a dubious, painful achievement — and we use “achievement” cautiously here — became a business plan, and one of the...

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USAT: Why Unattended Retail Is Commerce’s ‘Great Equalizer’
USAT: Why Unattended Retail Is Commerce’s ‘Great Equalizer’
November 08, 2019  |  Unattended Retail

The rise of unattended retail – from yesterday’s vending machines full of candy and soda to today’s upscale self-service conduits where one can get kiosk...

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Is ‘Walking In A Live Instagram Account’ The Future Of Physical Retail?
Is ‘Walking In A Live Instagram Account’ The Future Of Physical Retail?
November 08, 2019  |  Retail

Remember those first giddy days of eCommerce? If so, one can probably remember the fantastical predictions that, before too long, brick-and-mortar retail would go the...

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The Vitamin Shoppe On Offering Subscriptions At The POS
The Vitamin Shoppe On Offering Subscriptions At The POS
November 08, 2019  |  Subscription Commerce

The subscription commerce market has grown by more than 100 percent each year for the past five years. While many businesses are wholly built on...

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Bottomline: The Watershed Hurdles B2B RTP Must Clear
Bottomline: The Watershed Hurdles B2B RTP Must Clear
November 08, 2019  |  B2B Payments

As real-time payments (RTP) gain traction with consumers via peer-to-peer (P2P), the pump may be primed for business-to-business (B2B) transactions to follow suit. Get the...

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HSBC Launches Digital Supply Chain Solution For Sri Lanka Clothiers
HSBC Launches Digital Supply Chain Solution For Sri Lanka Clothiers
November 08, 2019  |  B2B Payments

HSBC has revealed that it is launching a web-based supply chain platform specifically for Sri Lanka apparel exporters, allowing them to make early payments to...

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Sphere Teams With RMS For Automated Healthcare Payments
Sphere Teams With RMS For Automated Healthcare Payments
November 08, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Payments and security software provider Sphere announced that it is teaming up with Oklahoma-based Revenue Management Solutions (RMS), a healthcare remittance automation platform, to offer...

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Virtu Financial Announces New Business Unit For Capital Markets
Virtu Financial Announces New Business Unit For Capital Markets
November 08, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Virtu Financial has announced the launch of its new business unit, dedicated to capital market clients. The unit — Virtu Capital Markets (VCM) — will...

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