PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

Companies recognize the need for IoT security, but few are acting on those concerns. According to a recent survey, 97 percent of respondents said an attack on unsecured devices would be devastating to their organizations. However, less than a third are actually vigilant about monitoring for third-party related risks.

eCommerce 79

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. LendingClub has estimated that it will save about $25 million a year on fees paid to WebBank, which acts as a “pass-through” entity that enables LendingClub to make those loans. Call it a tale of two bank deals. PYMNTS (@pymnts) February 21, 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Data breaches now cost Saudi Arabia and UAE companies about $188 for each stolen personal detail, for example, and this price tag is exponential because most hacks compromise thousands of records. The pandemic is dramatically altering how merchants can transact, which data they can store and where they can store it, however.

Banking 70

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. The social media firm purportedly contravened an Illinois state law via a “Tag Suggestions” functionality that enabled users to identify their friends from photos put on the platform in the past.

Compliance 61

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. But while the season is here, it doesn’t have to be a time of dread.

Retail 86

Retail Auditing eCommerce Forecasting 86

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Fraud Tracker looks at the latest cases and allegations of fraud, which show rising sophistication in fraudsters’ tactics: internal bad actors are no longer acting alone, BEC scams are no longer reliant on chance and financial institutions face a growing trend in loan fraud. Mixing Internal and Internal Fraud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

20) launched its Galaxy Fold , a device designed to act as a smartphone or small tablet depending on consumer need. Samsung on Wednesday (Feb. The phone’s release comes at a tough time for smartphone makers, which are facing increasing challenges in getting consumers to upgrade their devices.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

New Zealand’s Auckland Airport recently introduced mobile self-service kiosks to its international terminal, which will allow travelers to check in for flights and print boarding passes and baggage tags. . If you’ve ever watched a sci-fi movie set in the future, then you may know that pop culture has long fantasized of an automated future.

Retail 51

Retail Technology 51

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

FinTech companies have been doing a good job of eating into banks’ turf, and yet it is the banks that are seemingly watching without really acting as quickly as they might or should. The affordability goes beyond the price tag. In tech, perhaps more than any other industry, the eternal conundrum is to build or buy – innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

The startup has developed a location-tracking smart tag and accompanying mobile app that sends alerts to parents when their child has gone outside a preset range. Jiobit, a technology startup based out of Chicago, makes something that seems like every parent, from those expecting to empty nesters, will want or wish they’d had.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

This could aid retailers with time-sensitive inventory in reaching the consumers who are most receptive to a promotion, hopefully ensuring they act soon and buy before the expiration date. Zeroing In On Shopper Segments. That’s often easier said than done, however.

Sales 52

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

He pointed to the principle behind Smart-Agents, technology that creates a virtual tag to entities — in this case, words — and builds profiles as these words are used. The fact remains, though, that successfully mining this data, and using it to bring self-learning to those assistants, has yet to be perfected. The security?

Concentration 64

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

And it is that intersection point of interest perhaps not being acted on that Austin-based Made In hopes to step in to make a difference in motivating an up-and-coming generation of home chefs toward the stove and away from the microwave. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. — The brand grew 11.6

Manufacturing 52

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

The price tag is enormous, as estimated by SentiLink and some of its partners, reaching as much as $2 billion annually — and that’s just for banks. In essence, the ID bureau would act as “an adjacency to the credit bureau. To that end, SentiLink said late last month that it had garnered $14 million in Series A funding.

Construction 73

Construction Numbers Concentration Securities 73

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Despite receiving multiple warnings from various sources over the years, she noted in her Monday Conversation with Akli Adjaoute, founder and CEO of Brighterion , that Danske Bank’s Estonian money laundering issue carried on for eight years before journalists exposed the story and forced the bank to act. Webster wondered.

Banking 76

Banking Compliance Budgeting Technology 76

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

When the shopper is scrolling Instagram and spots an outfit they want to make their own, they can then tag the post “#GetChoosy. But, of course, shoppers have to act quite fast: As soon as a customer orders her pieces, Choosy will design and ship at that specific volume, usually delivering within two weeks.

eCommerce 40

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Then, the associate acts : recommending a product or an alternate item that might fit the customer differently.”. “First, they observe the customer — what they’re doing, what they’re saying, their facial reactions,” Neiman Marcus VP for Customer Insight and Analytics Jeff Rosenfeld told Retail Touchpoints.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Technology 40

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody’s lowering Russia’s rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine’s rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4. The Lead In. The Market Reaction.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It’s as simple as adding a “sponsored content” tag on a blog post, an adequately transparent product plug by a YouTube celebrity or even a rapid-fire reading of the fine print — anything that informs the audience that what they’re consuming isn’t completely impartial. Keying customers into sponsored content isn’t a bad thing. million.

Advertising 40

Advertising Manufacturing Education Marketing 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. In that environment, Panera Bread’s corporate pledge two years ago to clean up its food act and remove manmade preservatives, sweeteners, colors and flavors from its foods wasn’t much of a surprise. So how did they get to better? Real Clean Food .

Advertising 45

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PYMNTS

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. So what was seen — and what were the early reviews? Branded mostly accurately as Google’s first branded phone, the new Pixel certainly got a very big introduction to the wider world. megapixel camera.

Entertainment 55

Entertainment Advertising Accounting Technology 55

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2019

But not every over-the-top gift can be measured by the size of the price tag. Then there is the less touching version of parents willing to engage in acts of physical violence to get their child a much-wanted toy. But not everyone stays within the realm of the usual. That, it seems, was a pre-Christmas present.

Sales 55

Sales eCommerce Retail 55

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Reviver Auto seeks to bring the license plate into the digital age via its rPlate, which acts as a digital display, tied, of course, to license plate numbers, but with an eye on connectivity. In the process, might the age-old frustration of standing in line at the DMV, shuffling papers, paying by (gasp!) It’s onerous. million in financing. “As

Advertising 51

Advertising Technology Securities Numbers 51

PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Making that happen is, again, not one activity but a series of them, including advanced alerting technology for spotting threats and a security operations center dedicated to finding, tagging and triaging threats, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “We McGurk noted that all of MoneyGram’s data is encrypted in transit and when it is stored.

Securities 46

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

Be they in the form of conspicuously placed cameras, electronic tags on items or even old-fashioned, basic signage warning against shoplifting, such elements are regarded as commonplace in modern retail, and honest consumers — if they pay them much attention at all — don’t take them personally.

Securities 40

Securities Retail Leadership eCommerce 40

PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

Since this requires a secondary token, it can be a strong deterrent for fraudsters – but it can also act as a deterrent for legitimate customers due to its slow and cumbersome nature. Data tagging is how ground truth is established. “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”. The Pros and Cons of Standard Security Choices.

Auditing 51

Auditing Compliance Securities eCommerce 51

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody's lowering Russia's rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine's rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. With no further ado my conversation with Franklin Templeton’s CEO, Jenny Johnson. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Television shows, movies, musical acts, celebrity merchandising, concerts – you name it, they plan to produce it. And though that is the chart topper, the average “high-end” TV drama can cost anywhere from $5 million to $7 million per episode, with the least expensive shows all having a price tag north of $1 million.

Advertising 71

Advertising Entertainment Investments Securities 71

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Facebook had been sued over the use of “tag suggestions,” and had allegedly broken the law by collecting the imagery without asking for permission. She recommended that Congress pass the Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act to extend the 36 percent rate that applies to service members and their families. The Reaction.

eCommerce 70

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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. Can one person make a difference to the value of a business? Key Person: Who, what and why? Who is a key person?

Valuation 113

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

From there, they can use their phone’s camera to scan the barcodes on product tags. The web interface acts nearly identically to an app interface, but it’s designed to actually draw in customers. Shoppers still lined up in front of cash registers at the front of stores, waiting their turn to pay at the point of sale.

Prioritization 46

Prioritization Retail Securities Technology 46

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Designed to act as both a smartphone or small tablet, the Fold looks nothing like anything else out there because, as its name implies, its screen can be folded in half at the middle. Apple has been hit particularly hard by the decline, given the centrality of the iPhone to its business. percent during the same time period.

Technology 59

Technology Sales Leadership Budgeting 59

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Consumers can’t track or tag their own purchases prior to checkout, and lagging adoption rates on even the most popular mobile wallets show that the tech still has a ways to go before it can dethrone even credit and debit cards from their places of ultimate ubiquity at the checkout counter.

Retail 43

Retail 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And so, Tauriainen has launched the SPENT Money app, which acts as a single portal through which all expenses, personal and business, flow. The vast majority also said that small business (SMB) owners that mix personal and business-related expenses are making it much more difficult for their accountants to manage the books.

Accounting 46

Accounting Retail Planning Banking 46

PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Financial fragility doesn’t always present the way most consumers’ imaginations tells them that it will. The most common perception people have of the financially-fragile customer aligns most closely with either the “On the Edge” consumer profile or the “Shut Out” profile described in the PYMNTS/Unifund Financial Invisibles Report.

Education 40

Education Budgeting Banking Finance 40

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. That has to be a little bit of a surreal experience. GREW: It is nothing short of surreal. This is obviously new news for this particular podcast, and it is — you hear the words that people say, you know, it’s an honor and it’s a privilege. And it sounds a little trite.

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