July 25, 2016
Are Consumers Ready For A Robo-Stylist?
There are many ways to positively describe an outfit. On point, dressed to the nines, stylin’, lookin’ like a million bucks. There are lots of ways to go, depending on...
July 22, 2016
Retail Bedfellows Tracker: Barnes & Noble Seeks Screenplays, Xiaomi Seeks...
Just because the pundits say that certain forms of retail are on their way to the grave doesn’t mean that merchants in those markets are going to go quietly into that good...
July 21, 2016
Fraud University: Class Is In Session
Much like any other successful professional out there, cybercriminals look for a good education and the right connections to get their foot in the door for their dream career. Fraud...
July 20, 2016
Bloomberg Beta’s Raises $75M Fund For “The Future Of Work”
Bloomberg Beta has raised its second $75 million fund to be dedicated – like its predecessor – to seed funding for start-ups. The two funds will not have identical interests, however –...
July 15, 2016
Startups Protecting The Enterprise On All Fronts
B2B FinTech startups struck out this week, but that doesn’t mean venture capitalists ignored the B2B startup space altogether. This week was largely about the companies that are helping businesses...
July 14, 2016
Is Tesla’s Master Plan Out Ubering Uber?
Tesla speculation is a favored pastime in Silicon Valley and beyond for reasons pretty obvious. The product is cool, the technology is innovative and the founder is a prolific entrepreneur....
July 14, 2016
Former Google Exec Tries Blockchain Banking On For Size
You may not have heard of this engineer, but if you use an Android smartphone, you probably use his technology. Paul Taylor is a former Google engineer who developed the speech...
July 14, 2016
Behavox Grabs Series A To Keep FinServ Employees Compliant
As businesses take cybersecurity to task, research has shown that the biggest threat to corporate data may come from within. Last year, the First Advantage Cybersecurity Survey found that firms...
July 12, 2016
eBay Snaps Up SalesPredict
When it comes to machine learning, you know what they say: if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Then program your new thinking machines to contemplate beating them. Then beat...
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