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Today In Payments: Wirecard Forces German Accounting Regs Reboot; Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards

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In today’s top news, Germany’s deputy finance minister wants to restructure accounting firm regulations, and consumers are turning away from travel rewards cards. Consumers Sour On Travel Rewards Cards. Plus, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC) is looking to modernize bank reporting.

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Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations

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At the time of the black swans in 2001 and 2008, it was hard to tell anything positive was coming out of them. The business model isn’t completely figured out, or the technology to support it isn’t there, or people aren’t ready socially. But when the dotcom bust happened in 2001, our innovations also died.

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How Gift Certificates Evolved From Paper To Wearables

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A few decades later, Neiman Marcus started distributing gift cards, but the retailer took a page from the 1930s department store playbook: It kept the cards out of sight and only sold them as novelty items. Compared to traditional paper gift certificates, gift cards were a plastic card with a magnetic stripe.

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Turkey’s PayCore Snags New Majority Investor Amid Digital Payments Boom

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Launched in 2001, PayCore notes that more than a million POS terminals in Turkey operate with software developed and provided by the company. In addition, PayCore’s software helps facilitate 60 percent of all credit card transactions in Turkey, the company said. , which has a footprint that extends to more than 12 countries.

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Barclays Corporate Banking Chief Resigns

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According to reports, Winter has been at the bank since 2001, previously serving at Deutsche Bank. and Germany-based credit card operations. Earlier this year, Barclays announced it would be divesting its credit card operations in Portugal and Spain as part of its continued restructuring.

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Banco BASE Taps Volante For Payments; Azimo Receives Dutch Central Bank License

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Coverage includes Mexico ‘s Banco BASE selecting Volante Technologies Inc. Banco BASE has tapped Volante Technologies Inc. Volante, which was founded in 2001, works with more than 90 financial institutions in 35 countries around the world. Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world.

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Ghosts Of Payments Fraud Past: Enron CEO Skilling Freed From Custody

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As widely reported, Skilling helmed the energy giant before it collapsed into bankruptcy at the end of 2001. Other allegations found, for example, that procurement cards were used to buy equipment from a firm that had gone out of business last year, and where receipts were still being submitted.

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