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CPG Companies Capitalize On Dramatic Digital Shift

PYMNTS

By way of comparison, spending at brick-and-mortar drugstores was down 5 percent and total trips across CPG outlets were down 3 percent compared to the year-ago period during the week ending Aug. Many CPG companies like Pepsi and Heinz have launched limited but innovative D2C programs.

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PAAY Rolls Out Partner Platform To Complement EMV 3DS Technology

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PAAY said its EMV 3DS offering lets merchants decrease chargeback costs, bolster authorization rates and maintain compliance as they provide an easy as well as frictionless experience for users. In that instance, merchants have to contend with cart abandonment. seconds on average through EMV 3DS.

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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

and other nations around the world as a result of the global pandemic continues to draw comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis — so it’s only natural that analysts may turn to the past in an effort to predict what could lie ahead. And it may be an opportunity for alt-lenders to once again initiate an innovation boom.

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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys

Lex Sokolin

The venture capital games of embedded finance , open banking, PSD2 and API, all of these revolve around the premise that banks are behind on cloud technology and do not know how to package and deliver financial products to where they matter. As a comparison, we have always needed light, but the technology of light?—?from

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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The innovation touted 10 years ago, that has garnered billions of dollars of venture capital (VC) funding, hasn’t turned out to be the “internet of money” as advertised. In those pieces, I acknowledged bitcoin as an interesting, even fascinating, innovation. Innovation By Any Other Name. It isn’t because it won’t.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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