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What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Bill Belichick
January 26, 2015

Boy, did I ever step in it last week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...

Bill Gates: Bitcoin Won’t Solve Global Challenges
January 26, 2015

Outside of Microsoft, Bill Gates has built a philanthropic reputation with an eye toward making more of the world a digitized place. With mobile banking taking root in the developed world, Gates envisions a world that in 2030 will see the world’s poor increasingly using...

Expedia Purchases Travelocity for $280 Million
January 26, 2015

In a deal that was a little under two years in the making upon close inspection, Expedia has agreed to purchase competing travel website Travelocity for $280 million from its parent company Sabre Corp., Mashable is reporting. This sale comes at a time with the...

PayPal Down Under: How Digital Is Changing How Customers Buy And Sell
January 26, 2015

When asked about their impression of an average Australian, odds are good that most people will describe one of three things – someone with a bowie knife fighting a crocodile, a person standing next to an adorable marsupial like a koala or a kangaroo, or...

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Nordstrom Tops with Consumers
January 26, 2015

For the third year in a row, Nordstrom has been ranked as the top fashion retailer by consumers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

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Merchant Advisory Group Claims No Reduction in Actual Swipe Rates Since Durbin
January 26, 2015

The Merchant Advisory Group has uncovered a serious imbalance between what debit card issuers and merchants are paying per transaction. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

The Ins And Outs Of PayDay Lending
January 26, 2015

There are no shortage of divisive topics when it comes to finance and lending. But there are some special areas that manage to attract passionate debate among intelligent people that doesn’t merely divide debaters into two camps – but instead maybe three or four. Get...

Macy’s to Go Big, Stay (Near) Home
January 26, 2015

Macy’s Inc. is moving on up in the direct-to-consumer-fulfillment world, but not too far. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

Alternative Finances
P2P Payments Player TransferWise Picks-Up $58M
January 26, 2015

TransferWise has snagged a big pile of investment dollars in a round led by one of the Facebook’s earliest backers, Andreessen Horowitz.  The UK-based P2P money transfer startup  and Facebook have reportedly been in talks that would see TransferWise provide remittance services for the social networking...