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MatchmakersSpin And The Urban Commuter’s Last Mile Problem
Talking to Karen Webster earlier this summer, Mobike’s Head of International Expansion, Florian Bohnert, said that bikes are a winning strategy for...
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Artificial IntelligenceBuilding Fraud’s Meta-Machine
OK, this is about to get meta.
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PYMNTS Topic TBDAirHelp’s Out To Smooth The Turbulence In Airline Reimbursements
Two hundred and thirty four million passengers — and that’s on the U.S. airlines alone. The summer’s a long and hot one...
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MatchmakersVantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged
Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen...
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Data DriversBricks And Mortar, With A Dash Of Service For Customer Stickiness
Can bricks-and-mortar survive the eCommerce onslaught? In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Dave Barrowman, who serves as Vice President of Innovation...
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DisbursementsFiserv Goes Direct With Disbursements
Paul Diegelman, VP of business development & partnerships at Fiserv, says that the story of bringing B2C digital disbursements to corporates at...
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CEO SeriesCorporate Travel’s $1.25T Rewards Opportunity
Companies spend $1.25T, yes trillion, annually on business travel. So it’s no wonder they want to find ways to steer employees to...
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CEO SeriesIn Lending, Next-Day Payout Doesn’t Cut It
Online and alternative lending is satiating consumers’ need for speed when it comes to accessing finance. But, while an online loan decision...
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Data DriversBridging Blockchain’s Comprehension Gap
Bitcoin — and the technology that enables it — has certainly had a rather fast trip from obscurity to mainstream awareness. In January 2009,...
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CEO SeriesHow To Feed The Fraud Fighting Machine
How do machines learn to learn? In Episode Three of PYMNTS’ machine learning podcast, Socure CEO Sunil Madhu and PYMNTS CEO Karen...
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Fraud PreventionFighting Fraud By Not Focusing On It
Machine learning can help find real cyber transaction fraud while letting the “good” payments go through. TSYS’ EVP Karim Ahmad and Featurespace...
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MatchmakersSwitching Rent Payments From Analog To Digital
While the world of payments has mostly gone online – rent remains stubbornly analog in the age of digital. According to a...
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Data DriversGetting Skinny With It: SMBs And The Cost of Payments
Our latest Data Drivers finds Karen Webster chewing the fat with Suneera Madhani, CEO and founder of Fattmerchant. The skinny? How to slim...
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NewsNetPlus And Winning The Battle Against Cash In The Developing World
While cash is not an unimportant part of life in developed countries, it certainly isn’t central. The vast majority of Americans, 80...
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Payments InnovationTime, Really, for Real-Time Payments?
Real time payments, as a concept, has been around for a while. What will it take to make the concept a reality? ...
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Data DriversHow Fraud Data Streamlines Digital Loan Decisioning
At least two-thirds of consumers who go online apply for a loan. In our latest Data Drivers, Joe DeCosmo, chief analytics officer...
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MastercardDivido’s Smart Path To POS Financing Growth
Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades. But...
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CEO SeriesMeet The Identity Verification Robot
If the robot army is going to take over, identity verification might be one field humans should let them have. Socure’s artificial...
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NewsEyeing Bad Behavior and Stopping Payments Fraud
Behavioral analytics and machine learning can combine to root out fraud that is getting ever faster and harder to detect— even as...
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MatchmakersGoPetie And Building The Tinder For Pets
Sixty percent of Americans have a pet of some kind. Dog ownership leads the pack — which we think is a-ok — with 44...
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Data DriversThe Millions, Billions And Trillions Of Same Day ACH
25 billion and $43 trillion. That’s the annual volume of transactions logged as part of NACHA’s faster payments scheme and the value...
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NewsIsn’t It Time To Kill The Paper Payroll Check?
Employees increasingly want on-demand payment. How do businesses meet employee expectations while trimming costs and operations? Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards tells...
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MatchmakersPaintzen’s Platform Paint Job
One of the world’s oldest professions just got a tech-savvy makeover. The professional world of painting has deep roots, dating back to...
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MatchmakersMaking #VoiceFirst More Than A Hashtag
For the past decade, brand experiences have moved from thinking from a PC-first mindset to a mobile-first mindset. While this certainly took...
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Data DriversStopping Faster Payments Fraud, Faster
When the U.K. implemented Faster Payments, fraud tripled as fraudsters exploited the vulnerabilities of a new system that moved money in an...
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Artificial IntelligenceUsing AI To Stop Store Robberies In Real Time
Retailers aren’t just being robbed on line by cybercrooks. But physical retailers are being robbed and 70 percent of those robbers are...
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MatchmakersPutting Digital Experiences To The Test
Eight years ago, the mobile industry was a very different world. The iPhone was two years old, and the App Store was...
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When Machines Do The IDV Work Of People
Industries are abuzz with the fast-growing potential of machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence that allows programs to change, adapt...
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Data DriversSMBs Optimistic, But Not About Credit
Our latest Data Drivers delves into a dichotomy: SMB owners look with optimism toward future growth but look askance at their prospects...
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Merchant InnovationWhy DinnerTime Said No To Meal Kits
Anyone who’s ever been the person responsible for a meal at dinner time knows the feeling that is the five o’clock horror....
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ChatbotsBuilding High IQ Bots
Ever since Facebook made its big bot announcement in 2016, conversational AI (or chatbots) are all of a sudden everywhere — along...
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Payment MethodsIngo And The ‘Kill The Check’ Push (Payment)
Push payments are on the rise. The check may be at the end. Maybe. With a little assist, perhaps from the first...
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MatchmakersHelping Acquirers Embrace An App-Centric Future
The historical relationship between merchants, acquirers and ISOs was fairly simple — it was often based on bundling payments processing around POS...
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Data DriversConfirm Co-founder on Confirming Identity, An Art And Science
Four billion identities were breached in 2016, making digital identity verification on the critical path for any relying party. Bob Geiman, co-founder of...
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MatchmakersMatchmaking Millennials To The Experiences They Desire
While millennials aspire to seek out meaningful experiences, they don’t necessarily have the spending power that enables them to do so. On...
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SoundCloud Enters The Subscription Arena
Does SoundCloud want to be more like Spotify or more like Apple Music? According to a story in The New York Times, the...
