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Amex, China Mobile, Make Mobile Payments Move
Amex, China Mobile, Make Mobile Payments Move
September 15, 2014  |  Mobile

With soaring mobile purchases in China as a backdrop, American Express and China Mobile (China’s largest telecom) to jointly support an NFC mobile payment system...

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Why Walmart Said No To Apple Pay
Why Walmart Said No To Apple Pay
September 15, 2014  |  Apple Pay

Given that Walmart’s own mobile payment plan—MCX, now branded as CurrentC—has no plans to go live nationally until next year, the world’s largest retail chain...

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Telcos Fear No Big Payday From Apple Pay
Telcos Fear No Big Payday From Apple Pay
September 12, 2014  |  Apple Pay

How should telcos around the world react to Apple Pay? Should they ride along and cooperate fully—potentially hurting their own mobile wallet efforts—and sell as...

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ADM’s New eInvoicing System A Time-Saver
ADM’s New eInvoicing System A Time-Saver
September 12, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Until recently, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) was having difficulty handling the millions of invoices it processes each year from thousands of suppliers. That ended when...

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A Hybrid Approach To ERP Implementation
A Hybrid Approach To ERP Implementation
September 12, 2014  |  Cool

Whether to keep enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in house to manage transaction processing of buyer/supplier purchases and other business activities such as accounting and...

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B2B Distributor Offering Merchants A New Payment Portal
B2B Distributor Offering Merchants A New Payment Portal
September 11, 2014  |  B2B Payments

McAllister Industries, a B2B distributor of prepaid phone cards to retailers, plans soon to publicly launch Redde Pay, providing its customers with an online-payments portal...

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Illinois State’s Attorney Reviewing School District’s P-Card Use
Illinois State’s Attorney Reviewing School District’s P-Card Use
September 11, 2014  |  B2B Payments

An Illinois school district’s use of purchasing cards (P-cards) has resulted in a potential local state’s attorney’s office investigation. The Peoria Journal Star reports that...

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