Amazon's in-car deliveries have a whiff of desperation

Amazon's increasingly weird ideas for getting products to Prime customers — grocery delivery, in-home delivery and now in-car delivery — point to an unsettling conclusion: Amazon, for all its market dominance, is pushing the limits of who it can reach with traditional package delivery.

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Lessons from a cafe's cashless journey

Bluestone Lane, an Australian-style café and coffee shop chain in the U.S., has been well-served by its move to cashless payments in October 2016. But even the most well-planned transition can encounter problems if customers aren't expecting it.

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TransferWise digs deeper into the U.K. as Brexit looms

TransferWise is the first nonbank to become a member of the U.K.’s Faster Payments service (FPS), but with Brexit on the horizon, it has to make sure it is similarly invested in other markets.

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Pot payment processors need more guidance from Congress

Cathy Beardsley
President and CEO
Segpay

The timing is right for Congress to act sooner rather than later, defining what Is legal and establishing regulations, writes Cathy Beardsley, president and CEO of Segpay.

Payment processing April 24
Real-time P2P seems risky, but the security is solid

Robb Gaynor
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Malauzai

There are lots of layers technology risk-mitigation features, and in addition, network-level mitigation is provided as well, writes Robb Gaynor, chief product officer at Malauzai.

P-to-P payments April 24
Consumers prefer breachless payments to frictionless

Joseph Daly
COO
Paysafe

With new data breaches becoming public on an almost routine basis, it’s no surprise that our findings revealed that consumers are starting to favor safety over speed and ease of checkout, writes Joseph Daly, COO of Paysafe Payment Processing in North America.

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Nets pilots finger vein payments in Denmark school

Consumers enrolled in Denmark’s Dankort domestic payments scheme may sign up to make payments using only their finger in a pilot that the payments firm Nets is conducting in Copenhagen.

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PayThink Pot payment processors need more guidance from Congress

Cathy Beardsley
President and CEO Segpay

The timing is right for Congress to act sooner rather than later, defining what Is legal and establishing regulations, writes Cathy Beardsley, president and CEO of Segpay.

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Payment processing April 24
Podcast How to Build a Strong FinTech Partnership

Each partnership is unique but certain best practices help make them work

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The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Travel agency changes crypto converters; Cross-border payments as a retail recovery play; Bottomline Technologies adds a new API; A bank's rough technology conversion causes data breach.

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PayThink Real-time P2P seems risky, but the security is solid

Robb Gaynor
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer Malauzai

There are lots of layers technology risk-mitigation features, and in addition, network-level mitigation is provided as well, writes Robb Gaynor, chief product officer at Malauzai.

P-to-P payments April 24

P-to-P payments April 24
PayPal deploys Samsung Pay, adds another prepaid card

The partnership PayPal announced last year with Samsung Pay has come to fruition, with PayPal rolling out a new capability enabling its users to make purchases at any store that accepts cards via Samsung Pay.

Mobile wallets Kate Fitzgerald April 23

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Pot and payments: Everything you need to know

As marijuana legalization spreads throughout the U.S. and the world, companies in the cannabis market must navigate a delicate tangle of new and old regulations. And many payment providers are unwilling to risk working with dispensaries, leading to some inventive workarounds.

Data: The pain points of digital bill pay

Though financial institutions with online bill payment services still command the largest share of the bill payment market, it’s a category with many friction points ripe for disruption.

6 new threats to payment card data

Whether the threat stems from technology or human nature, fraudsters are exploiting any opening they can.

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Web Seminar Transparently detecting new account fraud

What happens when you need to validate a new customer without prior information or customer records?

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Web Seminar The building blocks of vendor risk management

Vendors pose a startling array of risks--operational, reputational, credit, compliance, even strategic.

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Millennials are big adopters but others age groups are showing interest

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