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Global Mastercard Payment Outages Lead To Consumer Complaints
Global Mastercard Payment Outages Lead To Consumer Complaints
July 13, 2018  |  Mastercard

An outage caused Mastercard customers around the world to be blocked from using their credit cards. It was not clear what caused the outage, which...

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Users Of Digital Payment Services Have Difficulty Recovering Mistakes
Users Of Digital Payment Services Have Difficulty Recovering Mistakes
July 13, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Digital peer-to-peer payment services like Venmo are growing in popularity, but according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, consumers who make faulty payments...

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TRENDING: Call Centers Take Off The Gloves And Put On The Masks To Fight Payments Fraud
TRENDING: Call Centers Take Off The Gloves And Put On The Masks To Fight Payments...
July 13, 2018  |  call center commerce

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What Do Millennial Women Think About Money?
What Do Millennial Women Think About Money?
July 13, 2018  |  VISA

Women’s relationship with money in the United States has been something of an evolving area in the 242 years since Thomas Jefferson declared America’s independence...

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge
Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge
July 13, 2018  |  Matchmakers

Nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, the absence of which can produce a sharp sensation of dread and perhaps even spark panic. A growing number...

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StubHub’s Disbursement Solutions ‘De-Risk’ Ticket Resales
StubHub’s Disbursement Solutions ‘De-Risk’ Ticket Resales
July 13, 2018  |  Disbursements

When fans decide to sell their tickets, they expect to be paid on demand. Not paying them on time is a luxury ticket resellers can't...

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Braintree: Behind The Contextual Commerce Buy
Braintree: Behind The Contextual Commerce Buy
July 13, 2018  |  Commerce

Location has always mattered in business, but the concept is taking on new meaning in online retail. Contextual commerce — which enables users to seamlessly...

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business
Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business
July 12, 2018  |  Retail

As Walmart is refocusing its efforts in the U.S. and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence....

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Blockchain Firms Flock To Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’
Blockchain Firms Flock To Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’
July 12, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

Zug is a small town near Zürich with only about 30,000 residents, yet it is impacting the FinTech world in a big way. The town,...

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