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OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to reports, there are allegations that a handful of managers within SEPTA cooperated in a fraud scheme with one of SEPTA’s vendors, which is facing claims that it submitted false invoices along with legitimate bills. Smaller Lenders Fall Victim.

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MAY 18, 2020

The already paycheck-to-paycheck ranks are being strained even further, as more than half of consumers now have less than a month before they have to dip into their savings accounts to pay bills — and 32 percent have less than two weeks. More than a third, 36 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

It also comes in tandem with the launch of the SentiLink API, billed as a real-time risk modeling and scoring system, focused on blocking synthetic identities. Synthetic fraud is different from what might be thought of as “traditional” identity fraud, where real identities and data are hijacked and used to make unauthorized transactions.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Yet, without a solid understanding of underlying data, business owners will struggle to move forward. Though Back Office is strictly an accounting startup, the company plans to introduce new functionality to its offering, including credit and bill payment. The firm secured $1.8

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The tool integrates a commercial credit card, enabling employees to use company funds without having to front the bill, while administrators can retain control over that spend as it relates to spending limits, categories and more. “For nonprofits, that’s very valuable data.

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APRIL 28, 2016

This data speaks to the increase in commerce generated through the Olympic Games,” said McCarthy. Opt-in for services, such as Mobile Location Confirmation via the issuer’s banking app or Visa’s Travel Authorization Tag. Set up automatic bill pay for their credit cards for peace-of-mind while traveling abroad.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

If they have to dig around in their pockets for bills or coins to make payments for drinks or snacks, they may find their elbows in someone else’s space — or ribs. Cash still remains popular among customers, but having the card payment option means they don’t have to worry if they forget bills. Passenger Personalization .

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Today, there’s a major gap in market between the data that relying parties have to verify consumer identity and what is needed to authenticate them with certainty. This leaves many without the “creditworthy” data that makes “thin files” thick. The New Age Of Data Attributes. Is the phone number the future SSN?” Ayers asked.

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MARCH 16, 2017

For many consumers, seeing additional charges tacked onto their bill can often be a good enough reason to walk away from their purchase altogether. Customers are likely to walk away from merchants after learning that the calculations of relevant taxes and customs were not included in the final bill.

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

The brush can then take all the data it has gathered and provide users with reports on how well they are brushing their hair – and to offer tips on not brushing too hard and when they are at risk of overbrushing. The other often-mentioned feature of the pants was the price tag, which was initially around $300. The less good news?

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. That lost money is a result of the time used by small businesses to cut through that red tape to check, enter and reconcile banking data as they do their own bookkeeping.

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MAY 15, 2018

Plus, data breaches have left a lot of those security responses exposed. Database solutions weigh data from social profiles and crime databases to come up with a model that can determine who is and isn’t a fraudster – but, like credit bureau solutions, they don’t verify the exact identity of the person who’s present on the website.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nope, Google went big, rolling out its fancy new phone (with an accompanying fancy price-tag), its VR entry and its Echo competitor. Google Home also acts as a slightly more impressive data receptacle than Alexa — as it is able to use the 70 billion facts the company has logged throughout the years.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

“Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life,” said fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. No one wears just one suit of armor, and no one shops in just one place when it comes to the mixing and matching of that armor, the hunting for designer names and comparing price tags against the waxing and waning of one’s bank account.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Workplace skills could include having Alexa join conference calls on behalf of employees and adding data to enterprise sales programs. Apple’s big selling point for the HomePod was its superior auditory quality, which was supposed to justify the $349 price tag. Finally, while the U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Specifically, payments giants are buying up data aggregators, which let consumers share data with thousands of apps — and in the process are taking on the roles of trusted intermediaries as information flows across the financial services landscape. The move is designed to strengthen Mastercard’s push into open banking in the U.S.,

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And then we started to focus on companies that had less obvious network effects, so more data behind the scenes, companies like Sift, for example. I had just finished another project I was been working on. I would say, you know, what we call Thesis 1.0

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MARCH 13, 2019

Those fights were over retirement savings 18 percent of the time, having enough money to pay bills 14 percent of the time and how to pay off debt about 12 percent of the time. According to data from TD Ameritrade , the average couple talks about money less than twice a month, and fights about it about five times a year. .”

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JULY 16, 2020

A hundred thousand data breaches after the great Target breach of late 2013, and the world has more or less gotten used to hackers getting into places they ought not be, and making off with money or data that they ought not have. That data, he noted, can be used by fraudsters to get someone to voluntarily do something they ought not.

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MAY 24, 2016

And in seven out of 10 cases, they are using it for paying a bill.”. It’s someone who lives paycheck to paycheck and has trouble paying bills.”. And this, according to Pew’s data, is where the trouble kicks in. They make at least $30,000 a year, which adds up to $15 an hour. The Typical Trouble With Payday Lending .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

A survey released by Intuit this week found that SMB accountants say the top challenges to being able to do their jobs include small businesses failing to adequately keep records, not using accounting software and not staying on top of bills.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Whether you’re saving up for something big or hitting the road to pay an unexpected bill, Uber can help you reach your goals on your schedule. The gold medal effort hit early — with news that Starwood, Hyatt and Marriott had all been snared in the same data breach affecting a property management company used commonly among them.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

He also noted that these consumers in many ways closely resemble “No Worries”-classified consumers, who mostly pay their bills on time and seem to manage credit relationships with minimal difficulty or expense. “Many high-income earners are living paycheck-to-paycheck. We are proving that here,” Ashbacher told Webster.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. We have a credit score index that’s powered by Experian, as an example, their data from Experian. Oh, you just do work with mathematics and intellectual activities. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The smart city’s biggest fans predict that living in a fully integrated connected environment will change how we commute , how we shop , how we pay our bills. And “waiting on the wings,” in fact, maybe a slightly misleading way to tag that. These are still the earliest days and there’s not a lot to attack yet.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

RITHOLTZ: They’re afraid of getting billed. We talked earlier about people not making the phone call because they don’t want to run up the legal bill. HAMBURGER: Replicate the data, have backups all over the place, backup tapes and all this crazy stuff. HAMBURGER: That was it. Like, how much are you saving?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You know, I covered a, you know, the first stock I guess I was jointly covering with another analyst was J Bill ba, you know, which was based in St. 00:47:56 [Speaker Changed] I mean, the average 10 note yield going back to 1920, if, you know, looking at the data is around 4.7 What do you make of this wildly noisy sentiment data?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And then, you know, we, myself, Matt Hogan, Jim Wiandt, a bunch of other folks built that business up into, you know, a pretty respective chunky business that had a big conference and a huge data. And it goes both ways.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

And he brings the receipts, he has all the data that proves it. All of these things hang together and I’m a data guy, so I’m really interested in how you interpret data. Barry Ritholtz : Am I remembering correctly as solo, the economist who said, productivity is everywhere except the economic data.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Gave Mark the money He went and paid off some bill, his AmEx bill, and now I’m an owner of a business that has no money again. LINDZON: So when we did an ad, we had to like, make the ad, insert the ad ourselves, like … RITHOLTZ: You should be able to track it, be able to bill it. LINDZON: Who absolutely needs the data.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

There’s ways around that during reconciliation for budget bills and things like that. I think the data does not tell you that. The biggest issue is normally, so you pass something in 2017, it goes into effect 2018, and then you get five years of data and say, let’s look at how this worked.

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