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Perficient Listed in Forrester Now Tech: Commerce Services, Q4 2020 Report

Perficient

Partnering with a commerce solution provider that can transform B2B and B2C digital omnichannel experiences is paramount in today’s digital world. Businesses need a full suite of expertise and assets to compete and provide seamless commerce experiences that delight consumers. Forrester canvased 35 commerce service providers to help shape the shortlists of digital decision-makers and channel strategy professionals.

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Three strategies to profit from payments disruption

Accenture

The world of payments is in turmoil, with no end in sight. In the previous posts in this series, we’ve detailed the trends driving this disruption, and zoomed in on the rapid change around the world and by payments instrument. Today we’ll wrap up by addressing the elephant in the room: what is to be…. The post Three strategies to profit from payments disruption appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Set Up Your Salesforce DX Environment

Perficient

The Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) is a set of tools that streamlines the entire development lifecycle. It improves team development and collaboration, facilitates automated testing and continuous integration, and makes the release cycle more efficient and agile. In this blog, we are going to see why and how to set up a Salesforce Environment on a local machine and learn to use it.

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

PYMNTS

In what’s beginning to feel like something of a trend in recent years, the payments landscape has seen its latest big global consolidation. Italian payments processor Nexi SpA recently announced plans to purchase private equity-owned rival Nets A/S, creating Europe’s biggest payments firm by volume. It’s just the latest in a series of mega-mergers seen throughout the industry.

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Elevating Accounting Practices: The Power of Outsourcing and Automation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Join us for an enlightening webinar as we delve into the transformative realm of modern accounting practices. In today's digital age, the convergence of outsourcing and automation has revolutionized how businesses manage their financial operations. In this webinar we will explore the synergistic potential of these two strategies to streamline processes, enhance accuracy, save cost and drive strategic decision-making.

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LPGA Golf Pro Morgan Pressel Meets with Perficient’s Women in Technology Group

Perficient

Earlier this year, we were thrilled to sign LPGA pro Morgan Pressel to “Team Perficient” – a lineup of three professional golfers that represent our quickly-growing firm on a global basis. Morgan turned professional at the age of 17. She qualified for the Women’s U.S. Open at the age of 12. She’s one of the most well-recognized names on the LPGA Tour and has been a consistent performer for many years.

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Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 5 – Versioning

Perficient

A great benefit of implementing workflow in Sitecore is the ability to have multiple versions of your content automatically. Content authors will not have to manually configure new versions on their own. Workflow will do this for us behind the scenes. With versioning enabled, we will be able to… Revert a page and its content to a previous version easily without having to re-author the content from scratch.

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Bill.com, Wells Fargo Debut AP Automation Feature For SMBs

PYMNTS

Bill.com and Wells Fargo are partnering on a new feature called Bill Manager to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) access automation for the accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) process, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Bill Manager will integrate cloud-based processes from Bill.com into Wells Fargo's digital banking service, the release stated, creating a paperless method for paying bills and offering "simplicity, visibility and control.".

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Global trade’s new normal and what it means for banks

Accenture

In this blog and the next, I’ll look at the shifts happening within trade and supply chain finance due to market forces and COVID-19, and outline how banks should respond. Our recent publication on global trade noted that the two decades prior to COVID-19 were characterised by a stable global trade landscape which saw only…. The post Global trade’s new normal and what it means for banks appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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Square Offers Beauty Sector Online Booking, POS Tool

PYMNTS

Square is offering merchants in the beauty and wellness industry a point of sale (POS) tool that integrates appointments, payments and checkout for a streamlined, secure process. . Square Appointments is a front desk solution that works with the business payments processing tool Square Register. The app-based tool gives salon customers the ability to book their appointments online and also issues reminders.

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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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Open Banking can turn into Beyond Banking, predicts Commerzbank

Bobsguide

The success of Open Banking depends critically on a mutually beneficial cooperation between traditional institutions and fintech to the benefit of clients, predicts an in-depth paper from Commerzbank, Germany’s market leader in corporate banking. Citing several examples of productive.

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Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Hacked By Suspected Nation-State

PYMNTS

The cybersecurity firm FireEye — which counts numerous government agencies among its clients — said in a blog post that its proprietary tools were hacked by a suspected nation-state. “We were attacked by a highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques lead us to believe it was a state-sponsored attack,” Kevin Mandia , chief executive officer, said in the post.

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Help guide the future of PaymentsSource

Payments Source

Your feedback is important to us. By taking this survey, you will help PaymentsSource determine how to best deliver the content you need in the most timely and useful manner possible.

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Circle Revamps Stablecoin Platform As USDC Grows 500 Pct

PYMNTS

Cryptocurrency platform startup Circle has overhauled its network to advance mainstream trading, while its stablecoin USDC has surpassed three billion in circulation, growing by nearly 500 percent in 2020. “At the core of Circle’s latest platform upgrade is a new digital currency-native treasury account infrastructure, Digital Dollar Accounts, which empowers businesses of all sizes to store value natively in digital currency while maintaining compatibility with legacy electronic money and paymen

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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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Faster payments become 'must have,' but interoperability still lags

Payments Source

Faster payments haven't always lived up to the hype and promise because of development and adoption stagnation in the U.S., but the idea of speedier transactions is becoming more popular.

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FTC, 48 States Launch Massive Antitrust Suit On Facebook

PYMNTS

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 48 states launched a massive antitrust lawsuit on Facebook Wednesday (Dec. 9), accusing the social media network of “illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct,” according to a press release. The FTC is seeking an injunction in federal court that could require divestitures of assets, including Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Travel POS credit firm Uplift bets on vaccine-powered demand, signs Air Canada deal

Payments Source

Travel has declined dramatically during the past year, but buy now, pay later firm Uplift contends there's a vigorous recovery on the horizon, adding Air Canada to its client roster.

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NEW REPORT: The Banks’ How-To Guide To Using AI To Manage Credit Risk

PYMNTS

Managing credit risk used to be a reactive process. Bank customers would fall behind on their payments, and their banks might react by imposing fees or having a case manager work with them to bring their accounts back up to speed. In severe cases, banks might have to take the drastic measure of closing accounts altogether. This was not only costly for customers, but also financially dubious for their banks.

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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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More adjustments are needed to help 'new' online businesses

Payments Source

Doing business online certainly isn’t new, but the pandemic prompted even businesses that hadn’t fully committed to the e-commerce space to shift some or all of their traditional operations online, says JotForm's Aytekin Tank.

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Uber Connect Expands For Holiday Package Delivery

PYMNTS

Uber Connect , the rideshare giant’s package delivery service, is being rolled out to new locations in more than 2,400 U.S. cities and towns to enable people to send and receive gifts, treats or whatever else they need. . “Connect can help deliver holiday cheer even if we’re apart,” Akansha Kumar, product lead at Uber Connect, said in a blog post on Wednesday (Dec. 9).

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Fidelity Digital to hold bitcoin as collateral for cash loans

Payments Source

Fidelity Digital Assets will allow its institutional customers to pledge bitcoin as collateral against cash loans in a partnership with blockchain startup BlockFi.

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France’s Ski Resorts Wage Legal Battle To Keep Lifts Open For Holidays

PYMNTS

French ski resorts are mounting a legal challenge against the government’s order to keep ski lifts closed at resorts this holiday season. While resorts can remain open, President Emmanuel Macron has asked that the lifts that transport skiers to the mountains remain closed until at least January to help lower the spread of COVID-19, according to a Bloomberg report.

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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.

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Banks must see big tech's move into payments, cards and finance as an opportunity

Payments Source

Open banking will drive an unprecedented move by banks, payments and technology firms to integrate and collaborate on banking-as-a-service, says Prime Trust's Scott Purcell.

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Privacy Regulations, Developing Trust Leads To New Revenue Streams for FIs

PYMNTS

The pandemic has spurred consumers to go online for all manner of daily activities — and the fraudsters are following them. The passwords, user names and Social Security numbers that once helped us prove we are who we say we are now are vulnerable or have already been compromised. And new regulations are taking root or are on the horizon to help protect consumers, their data and how that data might be used.

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Rothschild & Co hires former top UK civil servant Mark Sedwill

TheGuardian

Ex-diplomat will steer bank’s ‘strategic ambitions’ months after quitting Whitehall post Mark Sedwill, the UK’s former most senior civil servant, is to join the investment bank Rothschild & Co in his first appointment after leaving Whitehall this year. Lord Sedwill quit as cabinet secretary, head of the civil service and national security adviser in June.

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DoorDash IPO Soars; Commission Caps Make Early News

PYMNTS

Not a bad debut — not by any measure. But one wonders if the rocket fuel will last. At this writing, DoorDash shares are changing hands more than 80 percent higher headed into the close of their first day of trading. That translates into an intraday price of $182, up from the $102 where shares had initially priced , above a range that had been reported to be between $90 and $95.

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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.