PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

The blockchain has been considered a possible means to overhaul an array of aspects in B2B payments, including cross-border and smart documentation. One company wants to use the technology for supply chain management, including payments and invoicing, and, late last week, rolled out its solution to do so. Fluent said Friday (March 11) that it is debuting the Fluent Network, a blockchain-based software platform for cross-border B2B trade aimed at the businesses and financial institutions that pla

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MARCH 15, 2016

The New Jersey Chapter of the CFO Leadership Council held a panel discussion on “Attracting and Retaining Top Talent.” The panel was moderated by Karyn Egeland, Regional Director of Corporate Consulting at Randstad. The panelists included a number of executives with experience in talent management including Sandra Clarke, VP of Finance and CFO at Daiichi Sankyo; Anthony Graziano, Regional Managing Director at Randstad; Andrew Reich, Chief Financial Officer at Pearl Media; and Barbara Toscano, Fo

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Payment fraud evolves in ways that are truly frightening — and with haste. Fraudsters are continually scrambling to keep up with, and have one foot in front of, technology, with recent stumbling blocks in the form of EMV, in the United States, likely to give rise to greater card-not-present fraud. But the would-be payments criminals have potent weaponry at hand, including ever faster, ever more powerful and ever cheaper computing power, and they have been targeting, according to data science fir

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Every generation has to eat, but every generation doesn’t have to eat the same way. Whole Foods and other retailers capitalizing on the at-home health food craze were able to get out in front of millennial eating trends — or, at least, start riding at the crest of the wave. Fast casual restaurants weren’t so prescient, though, and now, cracks are appearing in one of the Baby Boomer generation’s most enduring retail trends.

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MARCH 14, 2016

The biometrics bug has caught Amazon. A new patent application from the eCommerce giant shows that Amazon wants to make its one-click buying option a little tech savvier. In this particular case, Amazon’s patent plans show that it is after launching an option that allows consumers to authenticate their purchase with a picture or video of themselves to make a payment instead of entering a password.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Foreign currency payments firm Midpoint got a bit closer to its small business accounting partner, Xero, this month when it revealed that not only had they extended their collaborative ties but that Midpoint would also be adding a “Pay Now” button to invoices sent through Xero. This means Xero’s SME users can pay their international invoices via Midpoint’s FX services, which uses a peer-to-peer matching model, allowing payers to obtain the midpoint of the interbank market rate for foreign exchan

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

What exactly is “Payments at the Edge?” Well, over the next two days, PYMNTS will be joined by those looking to chip away at that very question. It’s the question many players across the payments and commerce ecosystem are undertaking at this very moment. And, of course, we have technological innovations to thank, as MPD CEO Karen Webster shared during her opening remarks at Innovation Project 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today (March 16).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

The expectations of shoppers in the omnichannel environment are changing — well, actually just increasing. Consumers who shop across channels want merchants to offer more digital in-store services to supplement their shopping experiences – no matter where that activity takes place. This includes self-service options, having an interactive kiosk or display and even digital self-service help offerings.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

Cue the Huey Lewis and grab your hoverboard , because the future is finally here … almost. Twenty-seven years after their fictional “debut” (of sorts) in “Back to the Future Part II” (or, only one year, if you take into account the fact that the film is set in 2015), Nike is set to release self-lacing sneakers into the real world.

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MARCH 16, 2016

The defunct Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange case is back in the mainstream news cycle, and this time, it’s back in the U.S. A federal judge ruled yesterday (March 15) that the U.S. lawsuit that names Japan’s Mizuho Bank, part of Mizuho Financial Group, as being involved in the case by allegedly concealing problems that Mt. Gox had prior to its demise in 2014 can move forward.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

As a region, Asia has seen $4.5 billion come into its financial startups from investors across a variety of stripes, which is quadruple the investment activity of a year ago, Reuters reported. That means the region is becoming a sweet spot for FinTech investment. The global investment activity in the space stood at $19.1 billion, as measured across payment companies, Internet insurers and peer-to-peer players, and the most recent tally grew by 60 percent over 2014, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

While more than 90% of surveyed U.K. consumers know about mobile payments, that doesn’t mean they are going contactless. Morgan Beard, Strategic Marketing Director at TSYS , sat down with PYMNTS to discuss what U.K. consumers really think about mobile payments and the 3 things that are needed to boost adoption. PYMNTS: To get started, what was the aim of the 2016 U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Heartland Payment Systems has secured a strategic partner to bring its U.S. customers access to new markets with a deal that brings them secure international payment processing. Heartland announced yesterday (March 14) that it has signed a cooperation agreement to integrate the Heartland Portico Gateway with Computop Paygate — a platform that provides international payments solutions and fraud prevention.

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Speaker: Jamie Eagan

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Finance

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

The ongoing war over encryption between Apple and the FBI looks like it is spreading out and taking on more territory. Some of the bigger names in tech — Facebook, Google, Snapchat and WhatsApp — are now working on leveling up their encrypted products according to reports in the Guardian. We are sure the team at the DoJ is thrilled beyond words. According to our favorite source – the anonymous ones – over the next few weeks WhatsApp is going to extend the encryption it uses for tex

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

One problem with designing futuristic technology is that many people fall into the assumption that everything must appear to be as high-tech as it actually is. Rather than acquiesce to this gray-jumpsuited, meal-in-a-pill future, MasterCard and Bulgari want to retain some old-world feel in avant-garde tech. MasterCard, along with partners Bulgari and WISeKey, announced on Wednesday (March 16) their plans for the world’s first “intelligent mechanical luxury watch.” The Diagono

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

“If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will.” Innovation Project 2016 — where hundreds of leaders across the payments, commerce, tech and security ecosystems joined together under one roof with one mission: navigating the balance between the leading and the bleeding edge. Or, as articulated through this year’s theme, how Payments (solutions, platforms and devices) have found themselves at the Edge — or, in some cases, stuck in limbo about where, how and which way to

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Evidence of a winning run at Wayfair Inc. rolls on, now as the firm scales up its hiring spree. On the HR docket is the hiring of 1,400 sales and call center employees. The expansion follows a big year of growth for the online retailer in which direct-to-consumer sales doubled up in 2015. Now the firm says it needs to “scale customer service and sales operations to keep pace with our rapidly growing customer base.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Visa has rolled out a new feature for its Visa Checkout online digital payment option aimed at making mobile commerce more interactive and faster. This option, referred to as a digital “swipe” button, enables shoppers to see a virtual image of their debit, credit or prepaid card on the screen when selecting the digital checkout option. This feature is designed to provide shoppers with a familiar commerce experience, especially when shopping on mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

The second-largest U.S. payments network in the United States has found itself in some hot water with the Treasury Department. MasterCard has received a finding of violation from the Treasury since it failed to report accounts held by two Iranian banks. Both banks have been on a list that prohibits U.S. entities from transacting with them since 2007.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

In cosmetics, the right foundation can make the difference between a look worthy of a celebrity and something more akin to a haunted house. In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. If this isn’t common knowledge around the industry, it is at Sephora.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

A trial has exposed the behind-the-scenes workings of McDonald’s labor practices, and the fast food chain cannot be … Lovin’ it. (Nailed it.). A recent AP story dives into the details of the current legal proceedings — the opening statements for which began last week in New York — pitting the National Labor Relations Board in opposition to McDonald’s, with the former claiming that the fast food giant holds an amount of control over the personnel moves at its franchise locations throughout the Un

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2016

There’s a huge enterprise that is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of buying and selling, and of getting and spending in the U.S. No, this isn’t another complaint about Google. The giant enterprise in question is the U.S. government, BigData.Gov. BigData.Gov is constantly collecting massive amounts of data from businesses and consumers throughout the economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

In the U.S., most consumers agree that Netflix is pretty great. What’s not to like, after all? The Los Gatos, California-based streaming movie and TV provider gives subscribers access to media virtually (no pun intended) when ever and how ever — be it on their television set, computer or mobile device — they want it, and it has inexorably changed the game in the retail entertainment industry.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

MasterCard is launching a new initiative to link its small business clients with data analytics capabilities and is enlisting the help of IBM Watson Analytics to do so. According to an announcement made Thursday (March 17), MasterCard is integrating the IBM data analytics solution into its platform, combining it with its own MasterCard Advisors Local Market Intelligence solution, and introducing a way to link SMEs to artificial intelligence within its payments services.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

Omnichannel is the clear future of retail — except, perhaps, in the one way that it isn’t. Over the past few years, retailers have expanded rapidly into new sales channels that are isolated and separate from one another, as well as from their own brick-and-mortar operations. This could ultimately be hurting retail. As New York Business Journal pointed out in a recent article, brick-and-mortar retail’s fixation on omnichannel retail is lulling those companies into a dangerous sense of compl

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