consumer data

Online Coupon Company Honey Nets Founders $1.5B After Sale
Online Coupon Company Honey Nets Founders $1.5B After Sale
January 29, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

George Ruan and Ryan Hudson, the co-founders of online coupon service Honey, received a pre-tax haul of $1.5 billion after their company was sold to...

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Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance
Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance
January 21, 2020  |  Retail

Mark Twain famously said there are three kinds of untruths: lies, damned lies and statistics. And nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated over the last...

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Can Amazon Make Waving The Future Of Payments?
Can Amazon Make Waving The Future Of Payments?
January 20, 2020  |  Amazon

The rumors about hand-based payments out of Amazon have been building for the last few months.  In early September 2019, reports emerged that Amazon was testing...

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App Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Firms Without Mobile Focus
App Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Firms Without Mobile Focus
January 16, 2020  |  Mobile Commerce

Go mobile or go back home — especially when it comes to payment and finance. That is one thing that came to mind on Wednesday...

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Mastercard Names Raj Seshadri President Of Data And Services
Mastercard Names Raj Seshadri President Of Data And Services
January 14, 2020  |  Mastercard

Retail in recent years has become a very data-intensive industry. In his keynote address to the National Retail Federation (NRF) earlier this week, Microsoft CEO...

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Embedding Insurance At The Point Of Sale
Embedding Insurance At The Point Of Sale
January 13, 2020  |  eCommerce

Insurance is changing with the rise of eCommerce, as well as with the support of ever-expanding data sets and other parts of the digital infrastructure...

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ICO Fines Dixons Carphone £500K After Breach Affects 14M Consumers
ICO Fines Dixons Carphone £500K After Breach Affects 14M Consumers
January 10, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

Dixons Carphone is staring down the barrel of a £500,000 (about $650,000) fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office over an incident of compromised data that...

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CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior
CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior
January 10, 2020  |  CFPB

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed lawsuits against several companies offering to forgive student loan debt for allegedly obtaining peoples’ data illegally, charging...

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Are Virtual Cards The Future Of B2B Travel Payments?
Are Virtual Cards The Future Of B2B Travel Payments?
January 09, 2020  |  VISA

When Sabre and Visa announced a new partnership in April to pair Visa virtual commercial cards with the Sabre Virtual Payments gateway, the goals were...

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