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Most FIs Don’t Consider FinTech Firms As Competitors, But Maybe They Should

Most FIs Don’t Consider FinTech Firms As Competitors, But Maybe They Should
Most FIs Don’t Consider FinTech Firms As Competitors, But Maybe They Should
April 29, 2019  |  Innovation

Along with digital transformation, innovation has been a buzzword for some time. These may seem like abstract concepts, but innovation has had concrete results in...

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How To Motivate FinServ To Take Action On Cybersecurity
How To Motivate FinServ To Take Action On Cybersecurity
April 29, 2019  |  B2B Payments

To those who understand the importance of cybersecurity, and the monumental risks that growing cyberthreats impose on organizations, safeguarding systems and data may be assumed...

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In Wales, Late Payments’ Ripple Effects Felt In Construction Sector
In Wales, Late Payments’ Ripple Effects Felt In Construction Sector
April 29, 2019  |  B2B Payments

A Welsh construction trade group is advocating for safeguards to get smaller suppliers paid in the wake of a larger firm’s collapse. In New Zealand,...

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PayPal (Maybe) Pulls Ahead Of The SMB Lending Pack
PayPal (Maybe) Pulls Ahead Of The SMB Lending Pack
April 29, 2019  |  B2B Payments

With first-quarter earnings reports rolling out, it’s time to take a look at the state of small businesses and how they fared for the first...

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Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
April 29, 2019  |  Alternative Credit

By the numbers, Americans are not a very financially literate people.  According to a Standard & Poor’s Global Financial Literacy survey only about 57 percent...

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What’s Next For C-Stores: Buy In-App, Deliver Pumpside
What’s Next For C-Stores: Buy In-App, Deliver Pumpside
April 29, 2019  |  Retail

Those history teachers were right after all — to better understand the future, one must first understand the past. In the particular case of convenience...

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Why Amazon Bet (Almost) A Billion On Certainty
Why Amazon Bet (Almost) A Billion On Certainty
April 29, 2019  |  Retail

Amazon announced last week that it would spend $800 million to make one-day shipping the default for Prime members. Much of the coverage was about...

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Payments Goes To The Movies
Payments Goes To The Movies
April 27, 2019  |  Subscriptions

There were two very different stories about the American movie business floating around in the media this week. One was big and impossible to miss,...

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