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Decoupled Debit — Again?

PYMNTS

It’s the decoupled debit card. Note to the payments history buffs out there: The real decoupled debit interchange pioneer was a company called Tempo, aka Debitman , established in 2000 and acquired by HSBC in 2006 after struggling for years to get acceptance at merchants.]. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. LendingClub makes unsecured personal loans to consumers, mostly to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and more recently to refinance auto loans. They have a big incentive on their books to make sure that happens. Digital Banks.

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Retain and Grow Deposit Market Share as Interest Rates Rise

FICO

There is one key additional challenge which remains: How do we make forecasts in a rate-rising environment when the last cycle of rate rises began in 2006? . Read how a leading global bank improves its trade-offs between growth and margin with consistent modelling, methods, and user experience. Neil Jennings.

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WTF USA EMV CVM POS PIN SNAFU

Tomorrow's Transactions

In the UK, we had chip and PIN day ( St.Valentine’s Day 2006 ) and that, pretty much, was that. From The EMV chip credit card transition in the US has been a disaster — Quartz. The typical US consumer approaches a POS with some trepidation, I imagine, since it is completely opaque as to the experience that awaits them.

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law. It is a worse user experience to avoid it. and by the way banking licenses are sort of hard to find in 2006?—?why why not create a connective platform like Kazaa?

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Xero Partners with Expensify for In-House Expense Management

Fintech Labs Insights

Expensify’s solution will provide SmartScan OCR receipt scanning, next-day reimbursement, and company card reconciliation to Xero employees at all 21 of the company’s offices worldwide.

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M-Pesa’s Quiet Mobile Revolution 10 Years In

PYMNTS

and Western Europe still kind of like their cards. He said it’s a priority to refine the user experience and offer new services. New streamlined solutions include a debit card that will allow users to tap and pay and a new mobile app. It seems when it comes time to pay the piper in the store, consumers in the U.S.

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