PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

It’s the Instagram effect,” Smyth told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster – indeed, that social media platform not only allows consumers to show off the highlights of their lives, but also serves as aspirational content for what they might do next. And, of course, you’ll need a way to pay for it all. Growing Industry.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. It’s already happening, of course, albeit tentatively.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Until very recently, Evine — the bronze medalist in the home shopping 100-yard dash — barely registered on the radar of anyone watching the space, unless, of course, he happened to be an Evine Live shopper himself. The big changes at the firm began in 2014, when activist shareholders took control of the board and installed new management.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This , of course , doesn’t include fraud losses that were not filed due to the victim's embarrassment or lack of knowledge on how to report. Social media scams account for the highest losses and are higher than any other fraud typology , at a reported half-billion total loss. That equates to $35 billion annually.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. It also examines how community banks are different than other types of financial institutions, along with strategies for optimal operations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

For banks and processors, commerce means customers, of course, transacting across time zones, business verticals and currencies. Rather, the warning signs could be found, for example, in d/b/a’s (doing business as, or the fictitious names individuals or companies may adopt) or across several websites operated by the customer.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of the most important areas of consumer financial regulation today is the use of internet- or social media-based platforms to target advertising for consumer financial products.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

She added that the advent of what is collectively known as the “pays”— that would be, of course, Apple Pay , Google Pay , Samsung Pay and a host of others — has led to an environment where it is easier than ever to connect with the world at large, and pay in-app, on the go and even through the use of social media profiles.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

Beloved by younger millennials and up-and-coming Generation Z members, Snapchat is the little social media engine that could in an era when it seemed the social media die had all been cast (and where Facebook won most of the rolls). That just good old-fashioned operational costs. The firm torched through $1.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Facebook managed to notch another quarterly earnings report that outstripped Wall Street’s expectations. But the social media company’s stock was down in after-hours trading, as investors were taken aback by the projected uptick in the platform’s rising operating costs in the year ahead.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

There is never a good time for the emergence of a global disease, of course, but certain periods are markedly worse than others. The company also set up a multi-million-dollar subsidy program to reduce operating costs and capital risks for their merchants, in an effort to help them get back to work safely and efficiently.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

That was in the days before the internet became a staple of daily life, of course. And now, in the age of the mobile phone, where we use devices to get offers, manage spending and redeem points, the question still stands. As Mahoney noted, the pandemic has transformed the way businesses operate and reach their consumer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2017

The latest report to explore the issue suggests another culprit to poor financial management is wasted funds on services that would theoretically help the business succeed, yet ultimately were ineffective. billion on accounting services and billions more on services like insurance advisory, IT, payroll and other money management tools.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

In the quest to streamline B2B processes , and to move beyond the way things have always been done — especially when it comes to managing payments and cash flow — ePayables are gaining traction with financial professionals. And then there are the holidays that we all know are made-up, but still have a great time celebrating on social media.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Peter Shore, general manager of payments services firm Transpay , and Guillermo Bracciaforte, co-founder of online freelance marketplace Workana , recently spoke with PYMNTS about the payment preferences of gig workers and making gig economy payments more efficient. Regulatory compliance, of course, stands as a vital issue, he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

B2B FinTech saw one of its most stellar funding weeks in a while, led, of course, by the high-profile Bill.com investment. The company uses API technology to facilitate corporate payments to suppliers and employees across the globe, and deploys blockchain (fueled by Ripple) for liquidity and treasury management capabilities.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2017

The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others. More fintech is coming to Austin. The event is the 9th annual pitch session for SXSW’s accelerator.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The rise of the global sharing economy — tied to online marketplace operations — is sparking challenges related to trust, security and confidence for buyers and sellers alike. All that data-supported verification, of course, takes place behind the scenes — generally, in seconds.

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Abrigo

MAY 13, 2015

While business owners are the captains of the ship, in many cases they operate leanly -- with a small crew or perhaps no crew at all. And, of course, successful companies are the best type of clients. A business valuation expert can help owners create stability and manage their business to reach increased or stable profitability.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

But in today’s world of proliferating digital devices and communication options, customer contact centers, once operating primarily as telephone switchboards, are turning into full-service and multichannel communication hubs. A recent ICBA poll found that 16 percent of member community banks operate contact centers. 1% Don’t know.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

It is no longer quite a mom-and-pop operation anymore — in 2015 Cha sold a controlling interest in the company to Richmond-based Boxwood Capital Partners. So how did the company manage to innovate something as simple as frozen yogurt? with international locations in the Dominican Republic, U.K. The sweetFrog Experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The eCommerce giant, of course, examines frequency of purchases, cadence of purchases, and even the images of what has been browsed alongside those purchases to get a sense of what the end user is seeking — like whether the focus has been on a brand, for example, or on a specific product. The Consumer Responsibility.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The top line, of course, was the announcement that FIS would acquire Worldpay in a deal worth roughly $35 billion. We started to really think about how [we] not only simplify integration and onboarding, but [how to] better manage operations on an ongoing basis,” he said. “We Worldpay’s Big Week. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

That’s a bit tongue in cheek, of course, but only a bit. It’s growing exponentially and must be housed, managed and contained in ways that will keep things kosher under the watchful gaze of regulators. “The The relationship is two-sided, of course. Oh, and data? he told Webster.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The magic that makes it happen is the social media part of the Venmo platform, which allows users to list a live feed of their transactions in an easily digestible, scrollable, emoji-filled form. But for those six to eight weeks, the Girl Scouts have managed to achieve near-unilateral surrender from the rest of the industry.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Of course, the fact that millennials are so interested in starting their own businesses should cheer community bankers. Another significant finding of the survey was that across generations, Americans prefer to work with locally owned and operated banks. Social media—with privacy, please. Local preference.

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FICO

AUGUST 3, 2022

One customer told how they had been able to deploy user defined variables in FICO Falcon Fraud Manager to track and understand payment velocities. The Role of Data in Managing Fraud and Financial Crime Today was a session I had the pleasure to chair. and “Are organizations more or less focused on data because of the pandemic?”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

At its most basic level, the key ingredients that are pilfered and then used to construct synthetic identities – where individuals’ personal information is stitched together to fabricate new identities — are tied to data that is given to us at birth: Social Security numbers. And capital, of course, is always in the sights of the bad guys.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Of course, the fact that millennials are so interested in starting their own businesses should cheer community bankers. Another significant finding of the survey was that across generations, Americans prefer to work with locally owned and operated banks. Social media—with privacy, please. Local preference.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The nation’s largest supermarket operator announced this week that it has officially signed a deal with U.K.-based But the firm had operational difficulties, and after a few rounds of layoffs, the firm officially closed down operations everywhere except its home city of San Francisco in 2015.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Of course – the biggest news event in a generation has a way of exerting an almost gravitational pull on everything that happens around it. billion deal on Tuesday (April 21) for a minority stake in Indian telecom startup Reliance Jio , giving the social media giant a larger foothold in the region.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In a recent PYMNTS interview , CEO Gabriel Weinberg talked about how his company raised $10 million in fresh capital — only the second funding round for the 10-year-old, Pennsylvania-based operation — and has plans to better promote itself to a global audience, while also offering other privacy protection technology. ” Another issue?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Of course, Google knows this, and is working across a number of fronts to counter the threat to its core business. Meanwhile, operating system upgrades give consumers the benefits of new features on older handsets – for free. Expanding upgrade cycles don’t just affect Apple, of course – they are troubling to all smartphone OEMs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

That’s not the case, of course, in many countries outside of the U.S. We were thrilled to report that the health of those businesses that line the side streets and main streets of Any Town, USA are not only healthy and growing but making the local economies in which they operate healthy, too. And, that’s not all the good news.

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FICO

JANUARY 8, 2021

For FICO, customer development means working with customers through all the stages of the lifecycle – from marketing to originations to customer management. Mobile Operators and Coronavirus: Ideas To Help Slow The Spread. Value of Customer-Level Management. Here are our top 5 posts from 2020. #1. Value of Cloud-Based Systems.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

When Facebook announced its intention to get into the dating game a few months back, it managed a rare feat: The company got back to its roots while stepping boldly forward into the next evolution of monetizing the power of its platform. But, of course, not every platform has a 2.5 billion-plus user base.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

That was the crux of a recent digital discussion Karen Webster had with Ken Allen, SVP of operations at Socure , when the two dug into one increasingly evolving, complex topic that’s driving the future of payments and financial services: authenticating the consumer.

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