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Corbus and GIS Partner on Procurement and Supply Chain Management 
Supply Chain // November 07, 2022

Supply chain and business process management company Corbus and procurement service provider GIS International have formed a strategic partnership and said they will offer their clients more effective and efficient supply chain management.  With the partnership, the companies will offer complementary procurement and supply chain...

CFPB to Seek Feedback on Open Banking Rulemaking in November
Regulation // July 22, 2022

Open banking continues to grow and so do regulatory frameworks that aim at fostering its use. In countries like the U.K. or Europe, this process is regulatory driven and regulators are likely to bring new developments in the second half of 2022. In the U.S.,...

Third GDP Estimate Of 6.4 Pct Unchanged From Second Measurement
Economy // June 24, 2021

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the U.S. is up 6.4 percent for the first quarter of 2021, according to the third estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Fourth-quarter GDP was up 4.3 percent. The current estimate was calculated using a more...

Finstro Ready To Expand B2B Credit Work To US
Payment Methods // June 22, 2021

Australia’s Finstro, which works in trade and credit solutions for B2B commerce, is ready to expand in the U.S. with new card and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tech, as the company boosts its global team by 25 percent, a press release said Tuesday (June 22)....

Interviews & Exclusives
Oracle Looks Victorious As Clock Tick-Tocks Down On Deadline For A TikTok Sale

September 14, 2020
Oracle appeared to win the TikTok “sale or no sale” negotiations Sunday night, as several sources reported it had been chosen over Microsoft for U.S. control of the controversial social media app. No official statement had been released by Oracle, but Microsoft released a statement earlier in the day that it was out of the […]

Dr. Annamaria Lusardi: FinTech Is Great, But No Substitute For Teaching Kids Financial Literacy

June 15, 2020
Everyone in a modern society needs to know how to read, so America spends an awful lot of time, treasure and talent developing literacy curricula for kids. We take a...

What Germany’s Soft Reopen Portends For The US Market

April 23, 2020
What if an economy had a grand(ish) reopening — and almost everyone decided to sit it out?  Such is the question German officials are facing this week as the government has...

Can FinTechs Get Through A Turbulent Market?

March 10, 2020
There are bad days on the market — and in the wake of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, which has spent the last month gaining more and more...

Quick Reads
Corbus and GIS Partner on Procurement and Supply Chain Management 

November 07, 2022
Supply chain and business process management company Corbus and procurement service provider GIS International have formed a strategic partnership and said they will offer their clients more effective and efficient supply chain management.  With the partnership, the companies will offer complementary procurement and supply chain services based on GIS’ integrated supply chain and vendor management […]

Third GDP Estimate Of 6.4 Pct Unchanged From Second Measurement

June 24, 2021
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the U.S. is up 6.4 percent for the first quarter of 2021, according to the third estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis...

Ukraine Cracks Down On Ransomware Gang Tied To US, S. Korean Cyberattacks

June 16, 2021
Ukrainian police have carried out more than 20 raids against alleged ransomware hackers from a group called Clop, which has been blamed for the loss of nearly a half billion...

Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases And Lockdowns, World Waits For Vaccine

October 27, 2020
With COVID-19 cases surging and no vaccine ready, people are anticipating at least another year before they’re ready to fully return to how they lived before the pandemic, according to...