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MARCH 17, 2020

Finablr, which owns Travelex, said that it could be in danger of collapsing, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has frozen its trading. Virtually every industry is expected to be affected. Travelex Parent Finablr On Verge Of Collapse. Could The Coronavirus Crisis Solve Digital IDs’ ‘Chicken and Egg’ Problem?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We put the fashion authority into the hands of our users and offer them a platform for exchange that eliminates all the issues with borrowing clothes – convenience, cleanliness and value. In September, Alphons spoke with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster to discuss the convergence of reCommerce with the sharing economy.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Will Chinese Authorities Force Ant To Restructure? . Howard Yu , LEGO professor of management and innovation and director of IMD’s signature program, Advanced Management Program (AMP), told Karen Webster last month that regulators would soon force Ant to restructure to address such concerns. How Big Tech Fell Out Of Favor .

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JUNE 25, 2020

Under the proposal, emerging companies that participate in the program can apply for a conditional license from DFS if they partner with an existing firm authorized by DFS to engage in virtual currency business activity. California Seeks Court Order To Make Uber, Lyft Drivers Employees.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Mike West , head of global commercialization for Visa Direct , noted that enterprises — particularly smaller ones — have been evolving their strategies to keep pace with the rapid shifts in how consumers work, shop and pay.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

When Visa launched a contactless payments pilot with New York’s Mass Transit Authority (MTA) seven months ago, the company started small, and with modest goals. We are moving beyond public pilot — this has now become a continuous rollout,” Sanford told Webster. He told Webster that the conversation is likely to be quite different.

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APRIL 8, 2019

His recent PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster provided a look at the main hurdles that face the global sharing economy, and the main ways in which digital payments could help overcome them. The stakes involved in getting this right are nothing short of enormous, Webster pointed out, setting the stage for the larger conversation.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Mobile payments penetration has historically faced a gap in Southeast Asia , Joel Neoh , founder of leading regional online-to-offline company Fave , told Karen Webster. Governments in the region often give full-throated support for digital payments because they make it that much easier for authorities to tax the flow of funds.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are continuing to attract attention from authorities for all the wrong reasons. For example, Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson recently told Karen Webster that bitcoin as a consumer currency still has speed issues in terms of timing transactions properly. “I For instance, a new U.S.

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MARCH 15, 2019

But none of that can work well without payments, as Chris Abele, product strategy lead for First Data ’s digital commerce solutions , recently told Karen Webster in a conversation based on the new PYMNTS and First Data Commerce Connected Playbook. Your authorization rates can truly suffer, and can get down into the 40s,” Abele said.

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JUNE 18, 2019

As Visa’s Melissa McSherry, SVP and global head of credit and data products , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, fraudsters are persistent and often sophisticated, and VisaNet is a favored target — as it has been for decades. Overall, Visa’s global fraud rates are at a historic low at less than 0.1

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APRIL 30, 2019

In a podcast with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages, took note of how PSD2 and its strong customer identification (SCA) guidelines (which take effect in September) will shift checkout flows for transactions in Europe. PSD2 will change – indeed is changing – online commerce in Europe and beyond.

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JULY 7, 2016

On Wednesday, July 20 at 1:00 PM EST , MPD CEO Karen Webster will be joined by Don Bush, VP of Marketing at Kount, for a live digital discussion where they will examine how a fraudster uses tools, data and opportunity in an attack. Digital Discussion Host: Karen Webster. CEO of Market Platform Dynamics.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Artificial intelligence is making the leap from the imagination of sci-fi authors and computer scientists into consumer and corporate life. In a new PYMNTS podcast, Karen Webster spoke with Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute about those misconceptions. You cannot design something with only clean data,” Adjaoute told Webster.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Competition and Markets Authority says the merger could hurt competition in the sector. Barry Baird, head of payments capability and delivery at TD Bank, tells Karen Webster in last week’s live virtual event, “How We Bank,” that those are both areas where traditional banks beat both tech giant contenders and challenger banks.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Liz Armbruester, SVP of global compliance at Avalara , said that despite companies’ best efforts, keeping up to date and compliant with a shifting tax landscape has been an uneven process. Get ready for more letters from the IRS and other taxation authorities, warned Armbruester.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

New Zealand tax authorities published a ruling this month that includes guidance for employers that wish to pay their staff in cryptocurrency. Last year, Uphold Chief Revenue Officer Robin O’Connell spoke with Karen Webster about the opportunities of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in payroll.

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MARCH 13, 2019

As Gerber explained in an interview with Karen Webster, the Ethoca deal represents the latest in a “constellation of acquisitions centered around combatting fraud.” The alerts offer details, including credit card numbers, authorization data, transaction amounts and merchant descriptors.

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APRIL 24, 2020

Stripe’s John Collison On Improving ‘The Art Of Authorization’ Amid A Digital Payments Boom. The global pandemic has been the catalyst for a massive shift toward digital everything, particularly commerce. But for many firms, their existing payment infrastructure cannot handle the shift.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Speaking with Karen Webster in a recent interview , OnPay Solutions President and CEO Neal Anderson explained that organizations have to prepare themselves to mitigate the fraud threat, even as employees work from home. When it comes to B2B payments fraud, it’s not a matter of if it happens, but when.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The ride-hailing company also said it has a team available 24/7 to support public health authorities. It’s all part of the firm’s massive investment in digitization so that everyone, everywhere in the world, can access financial services, Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek told Karen Webster.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Connecticut’s inquiry is just the latest antitrust probe by several state and federal authorities into how Amazon conducts its business. Petco’s IPO, New Name Highlights Surging Pet Commerce Category. Petco’s decision to go public coincides with a broader COVID-era trend of increased pet ownership and spending.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The company is authorized and regulated by London’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an electronic money institution, working to give small and medium-sized businesses an affordable way of receiving card payments.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Payments have always been about what’s next, Karen Webster recently noted, from the first exchanges made for seashells to bitcoin and beyond. It’s been a long journey in a short time, and, as Karen Webster noted in her intro to IP earlier this year, there is now really only one question left to answer: But where do we go from here?

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JULY 6, 2020

However, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating that deal, with a decision slated for early August on whether the funding can go forward. As Karen Webster wrote last year: “For Uber, transportation is a platform feature that is central to its business, but is not its end game.”.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

In response, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) changed course, and agreed to a phased implementation of the SCA rules that would span an 18-month period. That time, Ekata Vice President and General Manager of EMEA Spencer McLain told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, is sorely needed because, “in general, merchants aren’t ready.”.

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MAY 24, 2019

As Neil Randel, CEO at First American Payment Systems , told Karen Webster, that is reliability. As Randel told Webster, “In the last 10 years, we’ve seen the development of gateways. In addition, “we’re trying to get our merchants PCI-compliant,” he told Webster. “We’re

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These factors have acted as a powerful tailwind for Paytm , India’s largest payments firm, company President Madhur Deora told Karen Webster. Coupled with a global spike in contactless payment methods, India is seeing a massive shift away from cash. That's not too bad.”. We don't think we tripped any policy.”.

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JULY 2, 2020

Felix Hufeld, head of Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, known as BaFin, denied that its regulators failed to investigate Wirecard. The payments company said the idea was to add features for those like “sole proprietors, casual sellers, and users with a side hustle.”.

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JULY 2, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Visa’s Sam Shrauger, SVP of Digital Products, said that “our goal was to give cardholders access to a great new way to pay, through a feature that is part of something they already have in their wallet: Their credit and debit cards.”.

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MAY 22, 2020

The project is being developed collaboratively with two state-owned enterprises — the Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (DAFZA) and the property firm wasl. The government of Dubai is planning to create an $870 million free trade zone for eCommerce named Dubai CommerCity (DCC). The pandemic accelerated its progress, the developers said.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

The topic was front and center in an On the Agenda discussion with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, Ethoca CEO Andre Edelbrock , Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops Senior Manager of Fraud and Investigations Keith Thompson and First National Bank of Omaha Director of Fraud Management Steve Furlong. It may come in 10 different boxes.”.

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JUNE 22, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Melyssa Barrett , vice president of identity and risk products at Visa, said the score leverages advanced technologies such as AI and machine learning to predict application fraud. Barrett told Webster the new risk solution provides a more complete and accurate picture of applicants’ identities.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Authorities Demand Accounting Details From Germany’s Wirecard. How Pre-Authorization Risk Checks Are Payments Wave Of The Future. How Pre-Authorization Risk Checks Are Payments Wave Of The Future. Merchants stand to make significant gains from the further use of pre-authorization risk checks when it comes to consumer payments.

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MAY 2, 2019

Fundbox enables sellers to authorize funds within the aforementioned credit limit to ensure funds are “earmarked” and cannot be used until the sale is captured. One advantage lies in the fact that the retail ecosystem, as brought together through the partnership, may become less reliant on credit cards. billion.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

In an interview with PYMNTS earlier this year, Previse Co-Founder Paul Christensen told Karen Webster that the company wants to use the credit card model for the accounts payable departments, allowing for vendors to be paid more quickly while still providing corporate buyers more time to pay their invoices.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Doug Brown, NCR's digital banking senior vice president and general manager, tells Karen Webster that firms with strong balance sheets will capitalize on select opportunities and that smaller firms can (and will) pick up key assets to strengthen their own balance sheets and service offerings.

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