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Visa-Western Union Deal And Alexa’s Roommate Potential Top The Week’s News

PYMNTS

Review our coverage, including stories about Stripe’s chargeback protection plan, the latest on open banking progress, a big investigation into crypto and the latest on the emerging ecosystem of predictive retail. Stripe said the new service is based on Radar, its tool that prevents fraud and protects against future chargebacks.

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Big Fraud, Big FinTech and Big Uber Top Week’s News

PYMNTS

Coverage this week includes a new Amex financial service, deep looks at real-time payments and the woes at WeWork, advances in voice retail and payments, a potential new opportunity for financial institutions, and original PYMNTS research into use case for artificial intelligence. MyPayrollHR Founder Faces $70M Fraud Charge.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

Note: Less than a month after the closure announcement, Vasupal was arrested for fraud in a bizarre case involving Stayzilla business dealings. Mobeam launched back in 2010, pitching a complex solution to a problem that most couponers didn’t know exists: Most retail scanners can’t read a barcode off a mobile device. Read more here.

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