February 10, 2017
$79M Funded Across B2B FinTechs
It was another week of varied investments for B2B venture capitalists, who, in total, raised more than $79 million for the space. B2B payments, alternative SME finance, enterprise cybersecurity, data...
February 09, 2017
Facebook Tracker: Feature Growth
Facebook stock (FB) was trending upward in midweek trading, with mid-day values on Wednesday (Feb. 8) rising 1.68 percent from the previous day’s close, up to $134.06. Though the numbers...
February 09, 2017
Fraud Firm Rippleshot Scores $2.6M, Plans Growth
Chicago-based fraud analytics startup Rippleshot recently announced it raised $2.6 million in venture capital funding from a number of contributors. The funding round was led by venture capital firm KDWC and...
February 09, 2017
Fundbox Navigates SME FinTech Innovation
Small business finance is one of the most competitive, innovative and challenging markets in which to operate. 2016 was a big year for the industry, with some of the largest...
February 08, 2017
Visa Brings Its “Tech Epicenter” To Silicon Valley
Visa is serious about tech — and it’s putting its money where its mouth is with the opening of a massive new Silicon Valley office for its research and data...
February 08, 2017
What Banks See In Eye Biometrics
Interoperable, highly reliable and available to a large swath of consumers from the get-go. That’s why EyeVerify CEO, Toby Rush, believes that eyeprinting biometrics delivers a solution that’s not just...
February 08, 2017
MetaBrite Raises $3M To Grow Its Machine Learning Receipt Scanning...
MetaBrite, the Seattle startup that has receipt scanning and business intelligence technology, recently raised $3 million from Acorn Ventures and existing investors. According to a report, to date, the startup has...
February 03, 2017
Bridg Closes Marketing Loop For Restaurants, Retail
While online commerce has allowed eRetailers to source consumer data and to deliver targeted, personalized advertisements, physical retail has often lacked these capabilities. Los Angeles-based tech company Bridg is closing the...
February 03, 2017
AI Startup Xnor.ai Raises $2.6M To Bring AI To All...
Xnor.ai, an AI startup based in Seattle, has raised $2.6 million in a seed investment round of venture capital funding to bring artificial intelligence to all sorts of devices. According...
With more than two-thirds of CFOs citing payment delays as a problem for their firms in the last six months, nine in 10 companies wish to expand their investment in AR automation to accelerate order processing, reduce invoicing errors and expedite payments. In the “Working Capital Tracker®,” a collaboration with Billtrust, PYMNTS Intelligence explains why the demand for AR automation is growing and what’s at stake for companies that opt out of this trend.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand