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Funded B2B Startups Break Through The Mold
Funded B2B Startups Break Through The Mold
June 17, 2016  |  B2B Payments

While this week’s B2B venture capital roundup saw some usual suspects (like alternative SME lending), the firms that caught venture capital attention largely broke through...

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FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype
FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype
June 17, 2016  |  Payments Innovation

Silicon Valley has the banking industry in its crosshairs. Hardly a day, hardly even a nanosecond, goes by without a VC, entrepreneur, or tech media...

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: EMV, Apple, Birchbox (And Why Being First Isn’t The Same As Winning)
Sizzle Or Fizzle: EMV, Apple, Birchbox (And Why Being First Isn’t The Same As Winning)
June 17, 2016  |  Retail

It was an alphabet soup of sizzle/fizzle this week: EMV, WWDC, PLCC, CCI, and SFBI all rocked the payments and commerce world one way or...

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Big Retail’s Big Checkout Conversion Blind Spots
Big Retail’s Big Checkout Conversion Blind Spots
June 16, 2016  |  eCommerce

Cha-choke? Underperforming online merchants leave $168 billion annually on the table because they can’t close the deal with their shoppers. And big retailers, despite their...

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A Security Lapse Is Just A Bump In The Road To Faster, Better B2B Payments
A Security Lapse Is Just A Bump In The Road To Faster, Better B2B Payments
June 16, 2016  |  B2B Payments

The interbank messaging firm SWIFT has had a rough few months. Cyberattackers were able to steal $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank by compromising the...

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Jukeboxes Take Digital For A Dance
Jukeboxes Take Digital For A Dance
June 16, 2016  |  Omnicommerce

From a coin-operated box to mobile in-app payments – the way we pay-and-play at jukeboxes has changed drastically over the last century. Ron Richards, CTO...

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