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Charles Duhigg And Creating Rewards That Are Actually Rewarding
Charles Duhigg And Creating Rewards That Are Actually Rewarding
April 23, 2014  |  Hmmm

Pop Quiz, how many rewards program are you a member of right now? If your answer is in the family of “ummm, I don’t know,...

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Taking the Pain Out of Merchant Onboarding
Taking the Pain Out of Merchant Onboarding
April 23, 2014  |  Media Center

Ask any merchant how much they liked their onboarding process. It's generally pretty cumbersome - but for a reason. Assessing the risk of a new...

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Walmart Banks on Cash
Walmart Banks on Cash
April 21, 2014  |  Commentary

Walmart got the entire financial services industry buzzing last week with its Walmart-2-Walmart domestic P2P play. But what everyone forgot to focus on is the...

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Why Mark Cuban Invested in e-Procurement
Why Mark Cuban Invested in e-Procurement
April 18, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Mark Cuban is a very successful investor with billions of dollars to show for smart picks. His rather "eclectic" taste for startups makes it hard...

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Can Virtual Identities Eliminate Fraud?
Can Virtual Identities Eliminate Fraud?
April 18, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Every year $21 billion goes up in smoke due to fraud based on identity theft. miiCard thinks it has a solution that could cut that...

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Recent Breaches Appear To Be Hitting Home With Consumers
Recent Breaches Appear To Be Hitting Home With Consumers
April 18, 2014  |  Breach Round Up

It’s one thing to note that a merchant’s payment-data system has been breached, but the reality of what that means really hits home when consumers...

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The Biggest Opportunity in Commerce: Cross Border
The Biggest Opportunity in Commerce: Cross Border
April 18, 2014  |  BlueSnap

MPD CEO Karen Webster and BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier went around the world to explore the opportunities and challenges of doing business in some of...

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Easter Spending, Google Glass, Shopping With PrePaid… And Other Friday Factoids
Easter Spending, Google Glass, Shopping With PrePaid… And Other Friday Factoids
April 18, 2014  |  Cool

Do you know … How many billions of dollars will be spent on Easter this year? How many consumers use prepaid cards for retail shopping?...

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The GOOG Disappoints Analysts (Again)
The GOOG Disappoints Analysts (Again)
April 17, 2014  |  Controversial

We hate mobile, we love mobile. Despite internal optimism about completing "another great quarter" Google's performance in Q1 2014 came in below analyst expectations. The...

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