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Family-Friendly Financial Facts
May 09, 2014

Do you know how many people prefer using credit cards as their primary instrument of choice? Or the number of financial institutions offering mobile P2P? Find these answers and more on this week’s Friday Factoids.

Merchant Innovation
Fair Weather Consumer Spending?
May 09, 2014

Now that we’ve braved the winter and Spring has sprung, many consumers are back in the spending mood. In a recent interview, PYMNTS spoke with Master Card SVP Sarah Quinlan, aka The “Duchess of Doom,” to understand what’s driving retail spending trends. As it turns...

B2B Payments
2014 Euromoney FX Survey Results Released
May 09, 2014

The results of the annual Euromoney foreign exchange survey, which was first launched in 1976 have been released. The survey continues to be the key benchmark for the global FX industry and provides transparency and insight into the industry’s leading players. To learn about the...

Merchant Innovation
Online Market LocalBanya in Talks to Raise $5M in Series B Funding
May 09, 2014

The website processes around 750 deliveries a day and growing at around 25 percent per month, according to the company.

Mobile Commerce
RBI Pilots Prepaid Cash-Out Facility
May 09, 2014

With the new pilot project, companies like Oxigen, Airtel Money, Itz Cash, and mpesa can start offering cash-out facility through their network establishments across India.

Mobile Commerce
CFPB Proposes Rule Making Privacy Disclosures More Effective
May 08, 2014

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this week proposed a new rule that would make privacy disclosures for financial institutions more effective, and less expensive and tedious. No longer would card issuers, for example, need to mail out disclosures annually to each cardholder. Instead, they...

B2B Payments
2/3 of Small Businesses are Banking with Mobile
May 08, 2014

A recent study, “Monetizing Mobile Banking for Small Business Customers,” that examines how small businesses are currently utilizing mobile banking services, as well as what features they would benefit from and whether they would be willing to pay for them has discovered new numbers on SMBs and...

B2B Payments
Artiva Healthcare Integrates E-Payments into Revenue Cycle Management
May 08, 2014

BillingTree, an on-demand payment solution providers, announced an extension of its partnership with Ontario Systems, a receivables management technology and services provider, to provide integrated electronic payment support for the highly successful Artiva Healthcare revenue cycle management system. Ontario Systems will offer the health industry a...

Mobile Commerce
Google Shoots To Make Shopping Easier
May 08, 2014

Google’s mWallet, the company’s long evolving payments platform, has just gotten a little bit more user friendly. The app used to make it complicated for more than one user to access their mobile accounts from a device other than their own.  That difficulty is now...