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BillMo’s Value Proposition To Disrupt Money Transfers
BillMo’s Value Proposition To Disrupt Money Transfers
May 04, 2017  |  Mobile

With a $500 billion market opportunity and the proliferation of mobile devices among unbanked or underbanked consumers globally, the money transfer space is primed and...

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Mastercard CEO Counts 85M Global Masterpass-Enabled Accounts
Mastercard CEO Counts 85M Global Masterpass-Enabled Accounts
May 03, 2017  |  Earnings

Card issuer Mastercard posted results Tuesday morning that bested analyst estimates, buoyed by increased spending by consumers globally, driven across both debit and credit cards....

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Hackers Leveraged SWIFT Gaps To Pull Off Heists
Hackers Leveraged SWIFT Gaps To Pull Off Heists
May 01, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Hackers took advantage of gaps in cybersecurity coverage at the periphery of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication’s (SWIFT) network — which enables cross-border banking...

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Looking Toward The Finish Line For MoneyGram’s Merger, But Then What?
Looking Toward The Finish Line For MoneyGram’s Merger, But Then What?
April 28, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Ant Financial may snap up MoneyGram, amid a $1.2 billion price tag, hurdling concerns over national security, too.  But Walmart lies in wait.  Smooth sailing...

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Western Union Teams Up With Facebook Messenger For Global Money Transfers
Western Union Teams Up With Facebook Messenger For Global Money Transfers
April 19, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Score another win for Facebook with Western Union’s latest announcement at the social media giant’s F8 annual developer conference. As we’ve reported, there have been various...

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Flow Lands $16M In VC Funding, Wants VC Insight
Flow Lands $16M In VC Funding, Wants VC Insight
April 07, 2017  |  Mobile Commerce

Flow, a startup that helps companies sell their products around the globe, has raised fresh funding from Forerunner Ventures and Fung Capital. Forerunner and Fung...

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New $25 Million Financing Round Freighted For Freightos
New $25 Million Financing Round Freighted For Freightos
March 29, 2017  |  Investments

Freightos, focused on international shipping and online marketplaces, said early Wednesday (March 29) that it had received $25 million in financing through a round led...

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For B2B, Identity And Trust As A Service
For B2B, Identity And Trust As A Service
March 28, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Increasingly done online, B2B transactions can benefit from technology in place that verifies just who is asking for payment (and where that payment is going). ...

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For SMEs, FinTech Is Valuable And Perhaps Mysterious
For SMEs, FinTech Is Valuable And Perhaps Mysterious
March 22, 2017  |  B2B Payments

In a survey spanning 500 SMEs, World First found that FinTech has challenges and opportunity ahead, when it comes to gaining visibility (and payments) from...

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