March 26, 2019
UK Government Won’t Delay ‘Loan Charge’ Policy
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has refused to delay a “loan charge” policy for tens of thousands of individuals in the U.K. who are facing a tax charge they...
March 26, 2019
Building A Better On-Ramp For Credit Repair
Self Lender Founder James Garvey never thought he would go into financial services, and certainly never thought financial inclusion would become a personal passion. As a software engineer by training, his...
March 26, 2019
Michael Avenatti Arrested For Bank, Wire Fraud
Attorney Michael Avenatti has been charged in two federal cases with wire and bank fraud, as well as allegedly attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike. The Wall...
March 25, 2019
Venmo Pursues Customers With Negative Balances
Venmo, the digital money transfer company owned by PayPal, is going after consumers who have a negative balance in their accounts. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing...
March 25, 2019
Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal,...
While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news...
March 22, 2019
BIS Bitcoin Critic Says Banks Shouldn’t Create Crypto Tokens
Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements, said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it could undermine global financial stability, as well as...
March 21, 2019
US: Dimon tells Big Tech to prep for big regulation
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said tech giants need to brace themselves for a similar slew of tough regulations to what big banks faced after the financial crisis. “They haven’t...
March 21, 2019
Report: BEC Fraud Increasingly Goes Mobile
The wiles and ways of scammers to part businesses from their money continue to proliferate, and continue to use technology as a springboard to trick executives. As researchers at Agari reported,...
March 21, 2019
Report: Worldwide Accounts Payable Software Market To Reach $1.567M
Zion Market Research released a report about the accounts payable software market on Wednesday (March 20), estimating the market will reach about $1,567 million by 2025, according to a release...
The “Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker®,” a PYMNTS and Afterpay collaboration, brings you the latest news and research from the buy now, pay later space. It features expert analysis of changing payment trends as well as insights from top insiders within the retail and fashion industries.
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