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Payments Innovation Fuels Rise In Football Gambling

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It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. And those payments, at least in general, are following larger consumer trends when it comes to methods and technology.

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NEW REPORT: H&R Block On Offering Smarter, Faster Tax Refunds

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The rise of new technology has dramatically altered the traditional nature of payments, allowing gig workers and full-time workers faster access to their earnings while enabling businesses and banks to move funds more quickly across international borders. How Smarter Payments are Enabling Instant Tax Refunds.

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Agora Services Debuts New Tools For SMB Banking

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There will also be receipt managing sub-accounts for tax purposes, and other such perks. Community banks have been working to innovate through collaborations with FinTechs. PYMNTS reported that those kinds of partnerships can often be faster than the bank innovating on its own.

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Square: Why We Want To Innovate Payroll For SMBs

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Square’s ongoing efforts in building an entire ecosystem of services for SMBs, she noted, is predicated on the idea that with the right technological infrastructure a lot of that operational complexity can be paired-back and automated away. Or at least, that has been the status quo up until very recently.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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So stands one of the main views offered in a new PYMNTS podcast interview between Karen Webster and Tom Cregan, CEO and managing director at Emerchants Limited ( EML Payments ) , an Australian-based payment services firm that has set upon a path of global expansion, with its focus on the U.S. Engagement, innovation and scale are all vital.

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The Rapid Rise Of Social Credit Scores 

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Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014. million times last year for offenses such as unpaid taxes and fines.

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Why Cashierless Tech Means Cutting The Line And Reducing Theft

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million in funding, the startup is on track to bring a unique blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and anti-theft technology to market. The company’s second product addresses the main concern with cashierless technology, which is shrinkage. It supports all types of pricing, promotions and tax rules.

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