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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. The level of market volatility hitting the U.S.

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New Toshiba Commerce System Offers Retailers ‘Amazon Go At Scale’

PYMNTS

Retailers made all sorts of quick pivots to their eCommerce sites as the pandemic unfolded, but in-store legacy technology proved to be an obstacle for many of them. As COVID-19 has demonstrated, many retailers struggled to move fast enough to create sustainable operating models for curbside pick-up, contactless delivery and more.”.

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Milestones

PYMNTS

That night, the “name that tune”-style game was given the Alexa treatment, adding voice functionality to the user experience. While 10,000 seems like a major milestone — and it is in some ways — the statistic still pales in comparison to the number of apps that major smartphone operating systems boast.

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

Lex Sokolin

finance, culture, art, technology, media, geopolitics. How does software operate? Where does it operate? As a result, financial infrastructure is just our collective solution for enabling the above activities using the latest in technology?—?whether Technology firms should host technology?—?they

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Finovate Debuts: ICAR Builds a Digital Identify Profile for Client ID Verification

Fintech Labs Insights

At FinovateEurope last month, the company showed off its mobile onboarding solution, ID_Mobile , that leverages biometric technology combined with the social network and geolocation of the user. These additional factors verify that the user matches their identity document and builds their digital identity profile in the background.

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The End Of Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

The company’s interest with bitcoin from day one, Allaire noted, has always been to determine if blockchain technology can be a protocol that sits behind existing systems of money for faster (and interoperable) settlement on a global scale. This allows Circle to take on the credit risk of transactions to make money move instantly.

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Google Ushers In A Whole New Era In Big Tech’s Battle For Voice, AI, And The Future Of Computing

CB Insights

In comparison, Amazon’s share of the market reportedly fell to 52%, down from 88% in that same time period. Along with a new round of updates for the Assistant, Google also launched Duplex, a voice system that can carry out phone calls on a user’s behalf. GET the Full Report: FAMGA Earnings Call aNalysis.

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