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Cross-Border Payments, Sans Friction    

Cross-Border Payments, Sans Friction    
Cross-Border Payments, Sans Friction    
January 29, 2018  |  Cross-border Payments

Money changing hands internationally is a process that carries with it all sorts of speed bumps, especially amid regulatory scrutiny.  Payments can be made smoother...

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ADP: How Payments Power The Evolving Workforce
ADP: How Payments Power The Evolving Workforce
January 26, 2018  |  Partnerships

Contract, or 1099, workers aren’t a new workforce phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination. But in the era of on-demand services — and a seemingly...

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Can ‘Healthy Friction’ Help Build Consumer Trust?
Can ‘Healthy Friction’ Help Build Consumer Trust?
January 26, 2018  |  Cybersecurity

Friction isn’t a deal-breaker for mobile banking and payment apps. To be sure, too much friction can send users running back to the App Store...

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Go Fish: In The (Data) Stream — And Not The (Data) Lake
Go Fish: In The (Data) Stream — And Not The (Data) Lake
January 26, 2018  |  Big Data

Data is everywhere. Data is not static. Fraudsters are everywhere, and they are never static, never at rest. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Speaking Conversation Commerce’s Language
Speaking Conversation Commerce’s Language
January 25, 2018  |  Mastercard

That the era of conversational commerce is officially upon us can be seen in any number of anecdotal metrics – from the glut of voice-centric AI...

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The Need/Convenience Credit Card Paradox
The Need/Convenience Credit Card Paradox
January 25, 2018  |  Consumer Finance

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The Payments Known Unknowns/Unknown Unknowns Battleground
The Payments Known Unknowns/Unknown Unknowns Battleground
January 25, 2018  |  Innovation

Long ago, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that “There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that...

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KYC, Global, Mobile And Smartphone-Focused
KYC, Global, Mobile And Smartphone-Focused
January 24, 2018  |  Mobile

Doing business in far-flung locales means contending with a veritable Tower of Babel – not just in disparate languages, but in regulatory environments that are...

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