In B2B payments, accounts payable automation is a hot topic, as are the challenges AP professionals face when it comes to paying suppliers and managing the data from those transactions. But a new report from Corcentric, written by the Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM), details the...
Consumers use mobile to access the bank, digital communities to access information, and use data to make better decisions. And when all of these consumers leave their homes and go to work, they find a very different world – legacy, paper and siloed. That puzzle...
Germany’s Commerzbank is entering the marketplace lending space. The FI announced on Tuesday (June 21) that it will launch a peer-to-peer small business lending platform that acts as a matchmaking service between SMEs and institutional clients looking to provide investments. Businesses can borrow up to...
A new study has landed the FBI in hot water when it comes to privacy concerns. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, released last Wednesday (June 15), sheds light on a database of more than 411 million photos maintained by the FBI. The agency reportedly...
With the big announcement last week that Microsoft has snapped up LinkedIn, perhaps it was only a matter of time before the takeover talk started up in earnest about Twitter. As social media services go, Twitter is the paradigmatic case that perfectly demonstrates the rule...
The death and rebirth of the tech IPO has been foretold so many times this year that it’s a wonder Edgar Cayce hasn’t shown up, with Nostradamus in tow. Much ado about not much came when Blue Coat filed for an IPO and then got...
While mobile payments are having hard time finding that killer use case and igniting en masse (in the developed world anyway), new data out of Chase indicates that could be set to change sooner than many of us may imagine. As it turns out, consumers...
As of Wednesday, Facebook’s Canvas is open for business to marketers looking to create customizable and organic posts featuring images, text and call-to-action buttons. Before this, the HTML5 format was only usable by advertisers. Now the format will be open to retailers and other marketers...
Online clothing retailer, ModCloth, has been stepping up its efforts recently to lobby for passage of H.R. 4445, a bill that would allow the Federal Trade Commission to develop regulations and guidelines over the use of Photoshop and other image-altering programs in advertising. “Did you...
