April 29, 2019
Max Levchin: What’s Missing From Today’s Financial Literacy Initiatives
By the numbers, Americans are not a very financially literate people. According to a Standard & Poor’s Global Financial Literacy survey only about 57 percent of the adult population is...
April 29, 2019
SoftBank Sees A Boost In Cash Flow
SoftBank is finally seeing a boost in its cash flow after spending billions on investing in other companies. Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son launched the $100 billion Vision Fund in...
April 25, 2019
PAUL UK Teams With Yoyo For Mobile App; Khalti Earns...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Khalti receiving a “payment service provider” license in Nepal. The PAUL UK bakery chain has...
April 25, 2019
Rue21 fall means for junior clothing
The move of a retailer to shutter shops and bankruptcy is a sign of difficult times for other retailers based on shopping centres. At that time, it is a troublesome...
April 25, 2019
Albertsons Sees Rise In Same-Store Sales, eCommerce Growth
Albertsons has reported strong numbers for its fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2018. The Boise, Idaho-based operator of more than 2,200 supermarkets revealed that its same-store sales have...
April 25, 2019
Fraudsters’ Latest Target: Dead People
Back in the golden olden days of print newspapers, bad guys would regularly read the obituaries, then craft a plan to break into houses and steal valuable items during the...
April 25, 2019
When Employee Debt Becomes Employers’ Stress
While the Federal Reserve deliberates on whether it will create its own real-time payment (RTP) system, The Clearing House (TCH) is working to head off the competition by making a...
April 24, 2019
US: Occidental offers $38 billion for Anadarko
Occidental Petroleum on Wednesday started the first takeover battle for a major oil company in years, offering $38 billion for Anadarko Petroleum Corp, a bid that topped a $33 billion...
April 24, 2019
AT&T Loses Pay-TV Subscribers Amid Q1 Revenue Miss
Revenue for telecommunications giant AT&T missed Wall Street expectations on Wednesday (April 24), due to a loss in subscribers throughout all of its various businesses besides wireless, according to a...
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