In Lending, Next-Day Payout Doesn’t Cut It
In Lending, Next-Day Payout Doesn’t Cut It
July 06, 2017  |  CEO Series

Online and alternative lending is satiating consumers’ need for speed when it comes to accessing finance. But, while an online loan decision may be near-instant,...

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Bridging Blockchain’s Comprehension Gap
Bridging Blockchain’s Comprehension Gap
June 27, 2017  |  Data Drivers

Bitcoin — and the technology that enables it — has certainly had a rather fast trip from obscurity to mainstream awareness. In January 2009, the so-called “Genesis...

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How To Feed The Fraud Fighting Machine
How To Feed The Fraud Fighting Machine
June 22, 2017  |  CEO Series

How do machines learn to learn? In Episode Three of PYMNTS’ machine learning podcast, Socure CEO Sunil Madhu and PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster get technical...

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Fighting Fraud By Not Focusing On It
Fighting Fraud By Not Focusing On It
June 22, 2017  |  Fraud Prevention

Machine learning can help find real cyber transaction fraud while letting the “good” payments go through. TSYS’ EVP Karim Ahmad and Featurespace CEO Martina King...

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Getting Skinny With It: SMBs And The Cost of Payments
Getting Skinny With It: SMBs And The Cost of Payments
June 20, 2017  |  Data Drivers

Our latest Data Drivers finds Karen Webster chewing the fat with Suneera Madhani, CEO and founder of Fattmerchant. The skinny? How to slim down those processing...

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NetPlus And Winning The Battle Against Cash In The Developing World
NetPlus And Winning The Battle Against Cash In The Developing World
June 19, 2017  |  News

While cash is not an unimportant part of life in developed countries, it certainly isn’t central. The vast majority of Americans, 80 percent, carry less...

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Time, Really, for Real-Time Payments?
Time, Really, for Real-Time Payments?
June 19, 2017  |  Payments Innovation

Real time payments, as a concept, has been around for a while. What will it take to make the concept a reality?  In our latest...

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How Fraud Data Streamlines Digital Loan Decisioning
How Fraud Data Streamlines Digital Loan Decisioning
June 13, 2017  |  Data Drivers

At least two-thirds of consumers who go online apply for a loan. In our latest Data Drivers, Joe DeCosmo, chief analytics officer at Enova, and...

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Divido’s Smart Path To POS Financing Growth
Divido’s Smart Path To POS Financing Growth
June 12, 2017  |  Mastercard

Installment loans in retail are not new – they’ve been around in some form for the last three or four decades.  But as Divido co-founder...

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