Lending firm AvantCredit has pulled in $225 million in equity and added to its debt lines, the Wall Street Journal reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) announced Wednesday (Dec. 3) the expansion of its Small-Dollar Credit Test & Learn Working Group with the addition of Canada’s largest credit union, Vancity. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
A federal judge on Tuesday (Dec. 3) ruled that most of the data breach lawsuit claims against Target can continue and that banks pressing that lawsuit were almost fully correct in its allegations. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the judge found the claims to...
In the military, there is a concept called acceptable losses and it, candidly, calculates how many of your fighters are likely to be killed under different scenarios. But all businesses do similar calculations – building in losses as part of “doing business” is the ROI...
Internet-connected vehicles are going to become common. How quickly? Gartner is now predicting that in about five years, more cars/trucks will have Internet connections than won’t. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
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Tumblr on Tuesday (Dec. 2) rolled out an apparently easier way to make purchases through the service. In its own blog post, Tumblr offered simple instructions: “1. Find something you love on Etsy, Artsy, Kickstarter, or DoSomething. 2. Post it to Tumblr. 3. That’s it....
The global payments environment is increasingly crowded, even noisy. Next to Apple Pay, it’s a topic of conversation that’s all over the payments industry for obvious reasons – where there’s global commerce, there’s a need for global payments. But there are specific areas in dire...
As much fun as it is to ride a high-speed train across Europe, it’s just about that miserable to buy the tickets online. But Paris-based travel startup Capitaine Train is working to make the ticket purchase as smooth and quick as the train ride —...
