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Ticking Off The Boxes On The Fed’s Checklist Of B2B Payments Priorities
B2B Payments // August 07, 2018

The revelation that U.S. businesses, more often than not, pay their suppliers via paper check still draws quizzical reactions from professionals abroad. The corporate and financial services communities in the U.S. understand that paper checks are slow, expensive and risky, and yet they endure. The...

US Federal Reserve Upping Its Focus On Payments Security
Security & Fraud // October 19, 2017

Saying that payments and their security have reached a “critical juncture,” the U.S. Federal Reserve will be scaling up its focus on payment security and the new technologies that drive it, Federal Reserve board governor Jerome Powell said on Wednesday. Powell told attendees at a New...

Machine Learning Sizzles, Bitcoin Fizzles And Schrödinger’s Physical Retail Does Both
Sizzle/Fizzle // March 10, 2017

Sizzle Bricks and Mortar, Alive? What if we were to tell you that retail shopping isn’t dead? That there may be a spark of life in the bricks and mortar model? The caveat may have to be that we’d be talking about Amazon, with a...

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Machine Learning Sizzles, Bitcoin Fizzles And Schrödinger’s Physical Retail Does Both

March 10, 2017
Sizzle Bricks and Mortar, Alive? What if we were to tell you that retail shopping isn’t dead? That there may be a spark of life in the bricks and mortar model? The caveat may have to be that we’d be talking about Amazon, with a new bookstore on the way in its storied (pun intended) […]

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Today in Crypto: Singapore’s Temasek Bows Out of Coinbase; Investors Search for Answers in IRA...

February 14, 2022
India cryptocurrency industry representatives met with policymakers from the Finance Ministry to rework parts of the new crypto tax policy, according to a CoinDesk report. The industry wants to review the 1% tax deducted at the source on every crypto transaction. This, according to industry reps, is not feasible and tough to comply with. The […]

US Federal Reserve Upping Its Focus On Payments Security

October 19, 2017
Saying that payments and their security have reached a “critical juncture,” the U.S. Federal Reserve will be scaling up its focus on payment security and the new technologies that drive it,...