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Square Offers Beauty Sector Online Booking, POS Tool

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Square is offering merchants in the beauty and wellness industry a point of sale (POS) tool that integrates appointments, payments and checkout for a streamlined, secure process. . The app-based tool gives salon customers the ability to book their appointments online and also issues reminders.

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Ballard Spahr partner, Phil Yannella, authors book on data breach and privacy litigation

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Phil Yannella, Ballard Spahr litigation partner and Practice Leader of Ballard’s Privacy & Data Security Group, recently authored a treatise on data breach and privacy litigation. The book, Cyber Litigation: Data Brach, Data Privacy & Digital Rights, is published by Thomson Reuters and is available now for purchase.

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Can Comic Books Boost Compliance And AML Efforts?

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Comic books (along with their more sophisticated cousins, graphic novels) are treated not only as literature these days by fans and many scholars, but they also have a firm place in U.S. Now comes a comic book contribution to one of the most vexing and vital issues of modern payments and commerce — fraud prevention and ID compliance.

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Airbnb Notches Second $1B Loan As Bookings Fall

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The San Francisco-based online marketplace for lodging said the financing will ensure it can continue investing in the company and its hosts and guests in more than 220 countries amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We Airbnb Inc. 5, according to a report by CityLab.Com last week. and Chicago, the survey revealed.

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CSI globalVCard Adds Corporate Travel Booking Partner

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The company revealed Wednesday (June 14) that it is integrating its virtual credit card solution with AmTrav, a corporate travel management company, to streamline corporate travel booking and payment.

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Bitcoin Daily: Travala Users Can Use Crypto Again To Pay For Expedia Bookings; S. African Ex-Crypto Agency Chief Allegedly Scammed Investors Of $13.4M

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Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. The feature was shelved at that time, as Expedia’s systems weren’t set up to accept bitcoin payments.

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Young B2B FinTechs Secure Their Seed Rounds

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While 2021 has kicked off with a bang in the venture capital arena — with several high-value investments on the books — this week's B2B VC roundup is all about the seed rounds. Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management.

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