February 09, 2015
Palantir Adds Retail Shopping Data With FancyThat Purchase
Law enforcement contracts, financial research, health care innovation, and now…shopping? Palantir has purchased omnichannel strategy consultant FancyThat, adding retail and shopping data to its growing analytics portfolio, TechCrunch reported. While the exact...
January 29, 2015
Redefining ‘Integrated Payments’ At The POS
Some thirty years ago, what made Datacap Systems, Inc. unique was that it was first to bring integrated payments into cash register technology. Now, as POS technology has evolved, the...
January 25, 2015
US: Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics moving toward open sourcing
Microsoft has agreed to acquire open-source software company Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is best known for offering developer tools for use with the R language. By bringing Revolution into the...
January 19, 2015
Will Consumers Adopt A Digital Financial Conscience?
What’s wrong with a consumer who eats lunch out every day, prefers Starbucks to the office Keurig coffee machine and splurges on Uber instead of public transportation? Maybe nothing. But...
January 10, 2015
How Merchants Plan To Turn Good Ideas Into Best Practices
Starting today, scores of merchants, technologists, financiers, analysts, journalists and all-around retail enthusiasts descend on Manhattan for “Retail’s Big Show” – NRF’s annual event. By the looks of the agenda,...
December 12, 2014
Startup Snags $2M to Predict Consumer Behavior
Predictive analytics startup Framed Data has raised $2 million in new seed funding, just months after adding features that predict when a mobile app’s user will be willing to pay...
December 11, 2014
With No IPO/Acquisition Plans, Square Free To Operate Very Differently
Jack Dorsey, the founder of both Twitter and Square, rebels against the Wall Street quarter-to-quarter mindset and plans to keep investing in Square until he sees fit to shift it...
December 01, 2014
Apple Pay a Bust on Black Friday, New Data Shows
More than 95 percent of iPhone 6 and 6+ users who could have paid with Apple Pay on Black Friday didn’t according to a survey of more than 400 users...
November 28, 2014
Safer Peer-To-Peer Lending
UK peer-to-peer lender Zopa will use AU10TIX, a fully owned subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., to protect its lenders against fraud, verifying borrowers by checking government-issued identifications. By using the...
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