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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example.

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Virtual Cards Help Companies Manage Spend In Real Time

PYMNTS

Digital B2B payments innovations as diverse as machine learning (ML) automation, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and virtual cards are gaining unprecedented traction as businesses move to build sustainable B2B payments operations outside of th e office. RLJ Financial On Managing B2B Spend With Virtual Cards.

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Payments Innovation Fuels Rise In Football Gambling

PYMNTS

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Unfortunately, credit card withdrawals and those done through traditional payment processors can take a few working days.”.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

PYMNTS

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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Apple Pay And A Decade Of Innovation Top Payments News This Week

PYMNTS

We have deep, data-supported dives on Apple Pay, the outlooks for payments innovation in the 2020s, web sales taxes and Amazon’s holiday shopping season news. Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention. Cards in the field, so to speak, were up 4 percent year on year to 3.4 What a week it’s been!

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Wirecard, Spendit Expand Employee Card Reach Across Europe

PYMNTS

In an announcement on its website, Wirecard said it will begin issuing the SpenditCard, which offers employers a tax-free benefit solution to manage employee spend. The card solution acts as a digital voucher that employers can offer as an alternative to pre-paid cards for employees.

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How Virtual Cards Can Help Businesses Stay On Top Of Spend Management

PYMNTS

This has accelerated the need for spend management solutions and payment tools that enable businesses to review and approve transactions in real time, Caleb Jenkins , leader of client accounting services for tax and accounting firm RLJ Financial , said in a PYMNTS interview. Bringing Virtual Cards To A Virtual B2B World.

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