Tue.Sep 08, 2020

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The Decoupled Future of Sitecore Headless Services

Perficient

The Basics of Headless. “Headless” has been a buzzword for more than a few years in the CMS space, but what exactly is a headless content management system? In short, content management systems (CMS) have traditionally handled content management and rendering (creating markup and serving to web browsers or other clients). A headless CMS only handles content management and provides an API for other systems to consume that content.

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Amazon Creates Its Own Black Friday

PYMNTS

Amazon put a new date on the calendar last week. No it’s not Prime Day. But it has told its sellers that “Black Friday” deals will start on Monday, Oct. 26, leaving the rest of the retail world to read the tea leaves on Amazon’s Q4 plans. According to Tamebay , an Amazon seller news site, Amazon Early Black Friday Deals will start and run through Nov. 19.

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Building and Deploying Apps with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS

Perficient

Your digital transformation journey requires flexibility and efficiency while ensuring confidence in the security, governance, and support structures of your cloud strategy. Whether you’re migrating legacy applications, modernizing applications via cloud-native development, or embracing container orchestration, AWS and Red Hat have the platforms, services, and support you’ll need for transformation at scale.

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JPMorgan On The Digital Transformation Of Corporate Liquidity Management

PYMNTS

The rise of the coronavirus has spotlighted the need for corporate treasurers to make real-time decisions about cash management. JPMorgan ’s Head of Global Liquidity Product Solutions Specialists, Lori Schwartz , told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass that the very nature of liquidity management is changing — and leading treasury management professionals to pivot to digitization and move from physical to virtual accounts.

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Digital Transformation: Accelerating ROI and Growth in Commercial Lending

Now is the time for lenders to prioritize their digital transformation initiatives in preparation for the lending rebound. Rising competition and ever-increasing customer demands for speed and efficiency are forcing financial institutions to embrace digital transformation. This shift can feel overwhelming—where do you begin? This infographic illustrates automation demands and shows you how loan document automation serves as an essential step to increase profits and provide the best lending exper

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NET MVC Framework – Publish Database and Reverse Engineer

Perficient

Welcome to Part 2 of the tutorial! Now that we have the table, scripts, and post deployment scripts from Part 1 , we are going to publish the table to our local server, reverse engineer to create the Dbcontext, and add other components like providers and models (DTOs and View Models). Final structure we will have at the end of this tutorial: Details.

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Fintech and digital pay are pushing banks to accelerate tech adoption

Payments Source

Many of the changes on the horizon were inevitable, but the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital payments and finance, forcing banks to reevaluate their models and pivot toward faster technology adoption.

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Wardrobe: Recommerce Meets The Sharing Economy In Bid To Become The ‘Airbnb of Fashion’

PYMNTS

The reCommerce business has met the sharing economy. That’s the oversimplified view of the business model adopted by Wardrobe , a new kind of peer-to-peer fashion rental company that on Tuesday (Sept. 8) is breaking out of its New York City beta test and into a nationwide launch. But before getting into the launch and exploring how the Wardrobe concept will be deployed, as well as potential comparisons to its competitors, it’s essential to understand its business model.

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Reconciling for the payments industry: when money is the commodity

Bobsguide

The payments industry has undergone drastic changes in the last decade, making reconciliation critical to cope with huge volume, abundant data sources and a growing number of players involved in each individual transaction. Yet what remains unchanged is the essence – payments are.

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Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change

PYMNTS

Consumers are living in stressful times, and Patrick Gauthier , vice president at Amazon Pay , told PYMNTS in a recent interview that merchants working to prepare for retail’s new normal should start by addressing that. Consumers, he noted, are experiencing stress in ways they actually never have before due to the pandemic changes being made to their lives.

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The State of Automation in Financial Services 2024 Report

In this report, you’ll find a comprehensive analysis of survey responses from executives at banks, credit unions, and insurance companies concerning their organization’s current and future use of automation. The report’s key insights include: Which types of automation are saving organizations the most time and money How to overcome the biggest barriers to automation implementation and adoption Why automation investments will continue to grow over the next few years How much you could save in 202

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Banks seek tech developers to avoid missing the boom in digital cards

Payments Source

The pandemic-driven move to electronic payments isn't slowing down, and card issuers are finding an eager group of innovators promising a speedy migration to digital card production.

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Why B2B Payment Pain Points Go Far Beyond The AP Department

PYMNTS

The global pandemic has, no doubt, changed the B2B payments landscape forever. The name of the game today is digitization, with paper checks and cash no longer viable payment methods in the context of moving funds from one business to another. In Australia, Adrian Floate , managing director of Cirralto , says the COVID-19 crisis has fast-tracked B2B payments modernization.

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Pushpay combines church management apps to encourage digital donations

Payments Source

Donor management provider Pushpay has added new software that will help churches target donations through digital channels while providing more interactions and communication within congregations.

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Payoneer Launches Global Cross-Border Payments Capabilities

PYMNTS

Digital payments platform Payoneer is working to expand its services globally with the launch of its new Payoneer for Banks, which will aim to let more financial institutions aid businesses with cross-border payments, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 8) press release. By using API integrations, Payoneer for Banks will become available to traditional financial institutions globally.

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Why Is CRE Lending Stuck in the Past? Top 3 Reasons for Digital Resistance

Commercial lending is on the verge of a resurgence, but traditional processes are an obstacle. Explore the top 3 reasons for resistance to digital transformation and how overcoming them can pave the way for growth and efficiency. Discover why embracing automation and digital solutions is crucial for success in today's competitive landscape. Discover how GoDocs helps commercial lenders in the digital era with seamless integration and a borrower-focused approach.

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COVID-19’s impact on payments: Five key lessons

BankInovation

As the broader market impact of coronavirus comes into focus, it’s important for payment stakeholders to step back and reflect on the key lessons learned thus far to serve as a guide for the future. In this report, we highlight five lessons that we anticipate will leave a lasting imprint on the industry moving forward. […].

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Mastercard And Partners Form Supply Chain Digitization Alliance

PYMNTS

To digitize supply chains for merchants and wholesalers, Mastercard , along with Finastra, SGeBIZ and N-Frnds, has created an alliance with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), according to a Tuesday (Sept. 8) announcement. “Innovative partnerships like this one can support the agility and resilience of supply chains, accelerating access to finance and improving efficiency,” Michael Froman , vice chairman and president of strategic growth for Mastercard, said in the announcement.

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Checkout-free tech’s ambitions gets larger as opportunities multiply

Payments Source

For the dozens of technology companies trying to enable shopping without point of sale terminals, making it work in a full-sized store is the path to disruption. But the coronavirus pandemic flipped the script, bringing disruption well before the technology was ready.

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Middesk CEO On Helping FIs And FinTechs Derisk KYB

PYMNTS

When the U.S. rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP ), it lifted the veil on one of the biggest friction points in business banking today. In the mad dash for small firms to secure capital, many sought their PPP loans from banks other than their usual financial service providers, creating a logistical nightmare for financial institutions (FIs) that still rely on manual and outdated customer onboarding workflows.

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Register Now: Sneak Peek Into Close Automation SkyStem Web Demo

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, email, and shared drives no longer have to slow us down. Join us as we present a "sneak peek" recorded demo of SkyStem's month-end close solution – ART. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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E-commerce wave makes Dutch payments fintech Mollie a unicorn

Payments Source

Investors have poured a fresh $106 million into Amsterdam payments service provider Mollie, boosting its valuation past $1 billion.

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Report: Grab In Talks To Raise Up To $500M

PYMNTS

Grab Holdings Inc. , the $14 billion global ride-hailing company based in Singapore, is negotiating with potential investors as it seeks to raise as much as $500 million to boost its financial services division. Reuters reports Hong Kong-based AIA Group Limited, the publicly-traded life insurance group, Prudential PLC, the British global life insurance and financial services company and others are expected to reach agreements as early as October, according to sources.

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Movers and shakers: Notable August hires in fintech and banking

BankInovation

There were a handful of prominent staffing shuffles in August within the banking and fintech space, as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic begins to settle in the U.S. Payments companies Stripe and PayPal have tapped executives from incumbents while fintechs specializing in underwriting bolstered their executive teams. Here are the most notable hires for […].

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Canoo Aims To Reinvent Electric Vehicles And Subscriptions

PYMNTS

A COVID slump slowed the roll of major automakers and dealers this past spring, with the pandemic causing a 30 percent drop in auto sales to date. That’s giving extra momentum to the car-leasing trend that’s been displacing ownership for years. And that, in turn, is being challenged by ideas like fractional ownership and, more recently, auto subscriptions.

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Top 10 Benefits of Automating Loan Modifications for Commercial Lenders

Get ready for the wave of $1.2 trillion in commercial debt maturing in the next 24 months with GoDocs' ModDocs® platform. Traditional loan modifications are slow, expensive, and prone to errors, which put lenders at risk. But with ModDocs®, you can enjoy an innovative solution that eliminates attorney fees, allows on-the-fly loan modifications, and ensures compliance.

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California Legislature Passes AB-1864 Setting the Stage for the “Department of Financial Protection and Innovation” and the California Consumer Financial Protection Law

CFPB Monitor

Ballard Spahr to hold webinar on this legislation on September 29, 2020. Register here. We previously wrote about California Governor Newsom’s 2020-2021 Budget and an accompanying trailer bill that would rename the Department of Business Oversight (“DBO”) and significantly increase its ability to oversee financial services providers in the state. The proposed law hit a roadblock in May when it was handed to the Legislature for further deliberation and review outside of the typical budgeting pro

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Business App Developer Progress Buys Chef For $220M

PYMNTS

Progress has announced that it will purchase Chef for $220 million, with the transaction to be finalized in October, according to a press release. Chef works in providing software to let companies automate IT departments. Progress works in products to develop business software applications, and Chef will assist by providing "continuous delivery, application delivery, dependable compliance, remediation automation, desktop management and more," according to a Chef blog post , which also touted the

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Morning Brief 9.8.20: Digital boosts PayPal, Square's valuations

Payments Source

Starling and Monzo add payment fees; and other information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the web.

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The Number Of Disbursements Is Increasing, The Number Sent Instantly Barely Breaks 10 Percent

PYMNTS

Disbursements have become part of consumers’ lives like never before in the United States. Millions of consumers and small businesses have received government stimulus and small business assistance payments in response to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, while others are getting paid for freelance or contract work to help make ends meet.

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2024 Lending Outlook: Innovations and Evolutions in the Financial Sector

As we step into 2024, the lending landscape evolves rapidly with technology, regulations, and market dynamics driving change. For banks and financial institutions to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers, these drivers must be understood and engaged with. Lenders can anticipate significant transformation fueled by technological advancements, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer behaviors.