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WEX Reorganizes With New Team For B2B Payments

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Payments FinTech WEX is introducing a new corporate payment solutions team as it moves to reorganize its business, the company said in a statement on Monday (April 13). He will focus on developing cloud-based solutions for corporate payments across sectors including travel and healthcare. He also previously worked at U.S.

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Shifting The Used Car Market Into Overdrive

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He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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New Report: Speeding Toward Startup Success?

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PYMNTS recently caught up with Joe Munk, the program manager of the Portland State University Startup Accelerator in Oregon, to discuss small business accelerators, the benefits of collaboration and what he sees ahead for startup success. Not everyone is excited by the current state of mobile payment apps, however.

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Inside Square's City of Mobile Payments

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spent six weeks in Portland, Ore. — markets in total Apple Pay transactions conducted with its card readers. Square Inc. — a city with a strong existing base of micro-merchants — to transform it into one of the company's top U.S.

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Accelerating To The Future?

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And the financial benefits of these accelerators may only be the start of the equation, at least according to Joe Munk, program manager at the Portland State University Startup Accelerator in Oregon. He recalled a wearables firm that had been through the Portland State accelerator program two years ago, called ATBM.

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Square And Apple: Who Is The Big Winner Of Their Payments Pair-Up?

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History has a tendency of repeating itself in payments — though luckily, things in this space move fast and attention spans are often fairly short, so mostly we don’t notice. As 2014 became 2015 and 2015 became 2016, Square and Apple were, once again, the SMB payments “it” combo package. Take Apple and Square, for example.

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Fleet card market dynamics shift as WEX plucks Chevron portfolio

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The wheels are already turning on one of the biggest fleet card portfolio flips in North America, with South Portland, Maine-based WEX Inc. poised to take over in 2018 as the issuer of Chevron and Texaco fleet cards, replacing FleetCor Technologies, which is looking to make up revenue growth elsewhere.