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The Threat Intelligence Gateway Waging War On 100M Threat Vectors
The Threat Intelligence Gateway Waging War On 100M Threat Vectors
August 28, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Firewalls, from the biggest to the smallest, are under assault all day, every day from the staggering number of cybersecurity threats floating around the digital...

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izo: The Sweet Sound Of Automated Payables
izo: The Sweet Sound Of Automated Payables
August 28, 2018  |  Digital Payments

When watching dance in videos, chances are good that those videos are from media company DanceOn, owned and operated by music platform izo. The story of...

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Tide CEO: Why SMBs Need Their Own Bank
Tide CEO: Why SMBs Need Their Own Bank
August 27, 2018  |  SMBs

Small business (SMBs) are distinct from other customer groups, Tide CEO Dr. Oliver Prill told Karen Webster during this week’s Monday Conversation, with a specific set of product and service needs...

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How To Fix Healthcare Payments
How To Fix Healthcare Payments
August 27, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

Back in the good old days of healthcare, the employer paid for all (or most) of the freight, and the out-of-pockets for consumers were tiny...

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Navigating The New World Of Digital Trust
Navigating The New World Of Digital Trust
August 27, 2018  |  Data

It is often a flexible, rarely precise concept, around which centuries of philosophical, political and artistic debates have revolved: trust. Get the Full Story Complete...

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How Fraud Takes A Bite Out Of QSRs’ Mobile Margins
How Fraud Takes A Bite Out Of QSRs’ Mobile Margins
August 24, 2018  |  Fraud Prevention

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are pushing ahead with their digital efforts, with mobile-ahead ordering among the hottest areas for that. But that also brings more opportunity...

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Why It’s Time To Stop Making FX The Corporate Earnings Scapegoat
Why It’s Time To Stop Making FX The Corporate Earnings Scapegoat
August 24, 2018  |  Economy

Consider it the new normal. Consider it a rollercoaster ride. Consider it a reason to drink, down antacids or aspirin, or crawl under the covers...

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Marketplace Merchants Sing The Blues
Marketplace Merchants Sing The Blues
August 24, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

There’s a lot of sizzle in marketplaces. In fact, they have made tiny businesses into big ones, as even the tiniest one-man operation can gain the...

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Laplanche’s Upgrade Raises $62M To Reinvent Consumer Credit
Laplanche’s Upgrade Raises $62M To Reinvent Consumer Credit
August 23, 2018  |  Loans

When Renaud Laplanche founded LendingClub 12 years ago in 2006, the lending landscape was a very different place. Most consumer and business lending was done...

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