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Mastercard Digital Commerce Suite To Make Every Card ‘Token Ready’

Mastercard Digital Commerce Suite To Make Every Card ‘Token Ready’
Mastercard Digital Commerce Suite To Make Every Card ‘Token Ready’
October 18, 2018  |  Mastercard

Mastercard said Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite...

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Markets Swoon And Risk Looms For Firms’ Cross-Border Commerce
Markets Swoon And Risk Looms For Firms’ Cross-Border Commerce
October 18, 2018  |  Cross Border Commerce

Volatility in the stock markets and rising rates may have ripple effects — among them a greater amount of risk tied to FX transactions. Karl...

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Visa Adds 20 Partners To Fast Track ‘Credentials On File’ Tokenization
Visa Adds 20 Partners To Fast Track ‘Credentials On File’ Tokenization
October 17, 2018  |  Digital Payments

Visa announced today the commercial expansion of its Visa Token Service for “credential-on-file token requestors.” This expansion involves adding 20 acquirer gateway and technology partners...

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Intuit On Why Small Biz Can Lead The Way For B2B Payments Change
Intuit On Why Small Biz Can Lead The Way For B2B Payments Change
October 17, 2018  |  B2B Payments

People learn to live with their messes, whether that means piles of old clothes stuffed into the closet, emotional baggage from high school or that...

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Divvy Founders On Building A Millennial Bridge Between Renting And Homeownership
Divvy Founders On Building A Millennial Bridge Between Renting And Homeownership
October 17, 2018  |  Real Estate

For much of the early 2010s, there was an emerging piece of conventional wisdom that millennials were on the verge of radically breaking from the...

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Tulerie On Liberating High-End Fashion From Closets With Platform Rentals
Tulerie On Liberating High-End Fashion From Closets With Platform Rentals
October 17, 2018  |  Retail

The world is full of beautiful clothes — sitting in closets, going unworn. In fact, according to Tulerie Co-founders Merri Smith, COO, and Violet Gross,...

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Boost Launches Dynamic Interchange Rates To Push B2B Card Acceptance
Boost Launches Dynamic Interchange Rates To Push B2B Card Acceptance
October 16, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

Card acceptance is relatively low in B2B as suppliers balk at interchange fees. Boost Payment Solutions is rolling out Dynamic Boost, to make interchange fees...

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How QSRs Can Satisfy Customers’ Appetite For Innovation
How QSRs Can Satisfy Customers’ Appetite For Innovation
October 16, 2018  |  ResTech

A quick look at the latest edition of the PYMNTS Restaurant Readiness Index strongly drives home the point that consumers are, pardon the pun, starving for...

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Why Digital ID Is A Sports-Gambling Sure Bet
Why Digital ID Is A Sports-Gambling Sure Bet
October 16, 2018  |  Fraud Prevention

Few things make a sporting event more interesting than wagering a few bucks (or more) — whether it be a football game between two mediocre...

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