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Rise In Cash Use Brings Need To Optimize Processing Policies
Rise In Cash Use Brings Need To Optimize Processing Policies
March 19, 2014  |  Controversial

Many consumers have returned to using cash, driven by fear of using payment cards that merchants might let get compromised with insufficient protections. As the...

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Pangea Builds Global Money Transfer Platform
Pangea Builds Global Money Transfer Platform
March 19, 2014  |  Hmmm

Pangea Payments enables international cash-to-cash transfers, providing a platform that is convenient and easy to use for consumers. Pangea Founder and CEO Rahier Rahman spoke...

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BlueSnap: Giving Merchants An Edge Up On International Sales
BlueSnap: Giving Merchants An Edge Up On International Sales
March 19, 2014  |  CEO Series

Helping merchants find the best, low-cost option when accepting payments from oversees travelers is a core offering behind BlueSnap’s platform. But as CEO Ralph Dangelmaier...

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Innovating “it”: The Path To Discover’s New Card
Innovating “it”: The Path To Discover’s New Card
May 14, 2013  |  Company Spotlight

What leads an established payments powerhouse to reengineer an already popular platform? According to Julie Loeger, SVP of brand and acquisition at Discover, the answer...

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B2B Breakthrough: Discover, Ariba Launch AribaPay
B2B Breakthrough: Discover, Ariba Launch AribaPay
May 08, 2013  |  B2B Payments

Really and truly solving the B2B payments’ problem over the years has been a little bit like proving Fermat’s last theorem – lots and lots...

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Educating the Next Generation of Security Professionals
Educating the Next Generation of Security Professionals
April 21, 2011  |  Cool

Editor’s Note   In the world today, few topics are more talked about and less understood than “cyber security.” Almost daily, it seems, we hear...

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