November 18, 2016
Facebook To Add AI Facial Gestures In Future
If you think the emotion buttons on Facebook were an upgrade from the “thumbs-up” like button, you’re about to be even more impressed. Facebook says that, in the future, it...
November 15, 2016
Google Parent Alphabet Advances AI Endeavor
As developers wait with bated breath to get their hands on Google Assistant’s API, we look at it and other AI assistants’ recent past — and whether or not Alphabet’s...
November 04, 2016
Ubisoft Launches Microsite To Show The Darker Side Of Selfies
Selfies can be embarrassing and annoying, depending on who you ask, but they can also be a treasure trove of information for hackers. That’s according to Ubisoft, the video game...
November 04, 2016
Xero, Bottomline Post Net Losses
Small business cloud accounting firm Xero and B2B payments and procurement firm Bottomline Technologies have each released their latest earnings reports this week. Xero pleased investors with a 48 percent...
November 03, 2016
Resolver To Use AI To Help Consumers Complain
Resolver, the U.K. startup that has created tools to help consumers complain and track the progress of their complaint, has raised £2.8 million in new funding, which it will use...
November 01, 2016
Here’s Looking At You, Invoice
Tipalti has added optical character recognition to its invoice processing module. CEO Chen Amit discusses how automatic extraction of details cuts down on workflows and boosts cash flows.
October 29, 2016
Mister Rogers’ Payments Neighborhood
Forty-nine years ago this month, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuted. Now, we admit, that when most people think of Fred Rogers, they probably don’t think “payments.” But we couldn’t help but...
October 28, 2016
Accertify And Signifyd Announce Integration Partnership
Accertify and Signifyd, two providers of eCommerce fraud solutions for merchants, announced Thursday (Oct. 27) an agreement under which Accertify will integrate Signifyd’s service into its fraud management platform for...
October 28, 2016
Can Tenacious D In The IoT Age Possibly Thwart Fraud?
Last week’s global cyberattack on hundreds of thousands of smart devices set a ginormous spotlight on the vulnerability around IoT. And it has companies scrambling on defense, perhaps more than...
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