July, 2020

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US Treasury Tells Banks To Treat Hemp Businesses Like Any Other

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The nation’s marijuana regulator has told financial institutions to treat the $500 million hemp businesses the same way they would any other businesses. In updated rules from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ), the U.S. Treasury Department’s financial crime division, the agency said the new guidance is in response to questions related to Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering regulatory requirements for hemp-related business customers.

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What is OLAP?

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The sophisticated technology behind modern EPM solutions is still a mystery to many. In this blog post, we’ll look at the definition of OLAP as well as an overview of the technology. We explain what lies behind OLAP, what cubes have to do with it and what makes the technology so powerful for modern planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Background and Overview.

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How Payments Is Powering The Travel Industry’s Return

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The global pandemic has left no industry unscathed, but the travel business has the unfortunate distinction of being the sector that was slammed first and hardest, Colin Smyth , head of travel at payments platform Flywire , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. “They took [that] punch in the stomach first, and they’ve had to rebuild, thinking about the ways they can survive until the industry opens back up again,” Smyth said.

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Why SMBs Need To Focus On Product Innovation And Adopt A Digital Business Model

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The acceleration of [digital sales] growth can be explained almost entirely by an influx of first-time buyers.”. When consumers fled to online shopping options in Q2, many businesses weren’t set up for digital-first commerce, but quickly figured it out. There’s a cautious optimism now as SMBs, in particular, discover that going digital itself has gotten easier.

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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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How Mastercard Is Taking Crypto To The Point Of Sale

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Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. Crypto enthusiasts proclaim that you can front the best-known players like bitcoin or the most obscure blockchain-backed currencies circulating the world and tap into the future of money.

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India’s Digital Payments Platform Hits $1.34B In June Transaction Volumes

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India has embraced its model for digital payments so much that it intends to take it global. Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) that facilitates inter-bank transactions, has propelled the growth of online payments, the Financial Times (FT) reported.

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Are ATMs The ‘Mini-Branch’ Of The Future?

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The ATM isn’t living up to its full potential, a fact that’s really starting to come into focus for financial institutions (FIs) under COVID-19. The days of the ATM serving as just a quick cash dispensary are numbered, Sonia Sedler , Diebold Nixdorf ’s global head of managed services and banking strategy, told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. Consumers who are rapidly moving to digital commerce in the pandemic’s wake are looking for very different things when it comes to transacting with financial

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AutoX: Why Driverless Cars Are Ready To Hit The Road

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Tests of truly autonomous self-driving vehicles have been uneven at best, but with each scraped test hubcap, the concept draws closer to reality. Major automakers are in, with Toyota backing autonomous driving startup Pony.ai and Fiat Chrysler striking a deal with AutoX , the Hong Kong-based firm that has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for driverless vehicles.

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Bringing 21st Century Technology To A 12,000-Year-Old Industry

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Robert Morris , founder and CEO of agricultural-imaging company TerrAvion Inc. , is bringing modern technology to what’s perhaps the world’s oldest business — farming. All with the simple goal of helping farmers more precisely grow the food that consumers want to eat — and grocery stores want to buy. “ Agriculture is the original high-tech industry,” Morris told PYMNTS.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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QR Codes Enjoy A Renaissance In A Post-COVID World

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QR codes have been around for years, although they often seemed like a marginal tech solution in search of a problem. But as is the case with so many things in our brave new world, COVID-19 is giving new purpose to the much-maligned QR code as an elegant enabler of touchless commerce. We mostly have China to thank for figuring it out – specifically, Alipay and rival Tencent.

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Bank Of China Advises Country’s Banks To Avoid SWIFT Messaging

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With the economic and political battles between the U.S. and China heating to a boil, one of China’s top banks is urging financial institutions (FIs) to cut their use of the SWIFT financial messaging network for cross-border transactions. The bank’s messaging applies to Hong Kong and Macau as well. With U.S. sanctions against China looming, state lenders there have reportedly been developing contingency plans.

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How Retailers Are Cashing In On A US Coin Shortage

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As the United States experiences a coin shortage due to the pandemic, some brick-and-mortar retailers are forcing consumers to tell cashiers to “keep the change.”. Kroger is the largest chain so far to do so, temporarily refusing to give coins out as change. Customers can either round up their bills to the nearest dollar and give the excess to charity or get their change stored on loyalty cards. “The Federal Reserve is experiencing a significant coin shortage that is impacting our store op

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NEW DATA: The Five Subscription Features That Could Keep Millions From Clicking ‘Cancel’

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Stay-at-home mandates have consumers spending more on subscriptions, ranging from streaming services to buying retail products for day-to-day use. It is perhaps not surprising that merchants that are offering subscription services are flourishing. Yet, these services are still not immune to experiencing churn. Both consumers and businesses are tightening their belts in the face of the economic downturn caused by the pandemic, and many are actively considering plans to cancel their subscriptions.

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Smarter Card Solutions: Meeting the Challenges of Mid-Market Travel & Expense

Our 2025 Center Travel Survey is clear: as corporate travel increases, so does corporate credit cards distribution, and a rise in off-platform travel booking. This 61% rise causes various challenges: compliance, spend control, reporting problems, and a lack of visibility across organizations. To evolve with the ever-changing needs of travelers, decision-makers need a better solution.

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Visa On The Changing Needs Of Merchants At The (Digital) Checkout

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Merchants’ needs have changed dramatically due to the pandemic. Digitizing operations tops the list of merchant imperatives, but getting there can be a struggle — especially when it comes to digitizing the checkout experience for a post-pandemic age. To that end, as Visa Acquiring Partner Relationships Vice President Josh Park told PYMNTS, finding the right tech providers and partnerships can be critical.

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Visa: Contactless Is The Cornerstone For A Reinvented Public Transportation Experience

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Transit system operators were already thinking about making at least a partial switch to contactless payments long before a global pandemic disrupted any and every element of how people moved between Point A and Point B. Mary Kay Bowman , Visa ’s head of seller solutions, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation that some operators had contactless payments already partially available in segments of the public transportation system, while others had it earmarked for a project several years in

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Banks, FinTechs Find New Models To Mesh Their Strengths

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The bank-FinTech collaboration model is often about wielding digital-native FinTech solutions to fit within bank offerings. Yet this week’s look at the latest tie-ups reveals new models of collaboration, including FinTechs expanding their footprint within banking, and wielding banks to fit within their own tech solutions. Kabbage Steps Into Banking.

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Why Fighting Fraud Means Looking Beyond The Transaction

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Consumers’ commerce patterns have been very much upended in the past few months and shifted heavily to digital. On the upside, this digital gold rush has created an opportunity for merchants to push about a decade’s worth of digital innovations out the door in weeks. But the bad news is that fraudsters see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to jump into the increased flow of transactions, Gary Sevounts , executive at fraud detection firm Kount , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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Bringing AI to Finance: How to Leverage Technology for Efficiency and Control

Finance teams are balancing more than ever, but manual processes shouldn’t slow you down. In this ebook from BILL, discover how AI is transforming finance—automating AP, expense tracking, and document management to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and improve financial control. Learn how real companies are using AI-powered automation to streamline workflows, detect anomalies, and gain deeper insights.

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SBA: EIDL Emergency Grant Program Runs Out Of Money

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A $20 billion federal initiative to provide emergency funding to small businesses is out of cash. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced in a press release the end of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Advance program. The EIDL was crafted to provide economic relief from $1,000 to $10,000 to businesses and nonprofits that experienced a temporary loss of revenue during the pandemic.

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Germany’s Deutsche Bank Offers A Lifeline To Wirecard Bank

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Deutsche Bank, the Frankfurt-based multinational financial services company, is in talks with regulators to rescue Wirecard Bank, the deposit-taking division of the German payment company that is facing one of the country’s biggest accounting frauds, the Financial Times reported. Wirecard Bank is separate from Wirecard AG, its parent company that filed for insolvency protection last week.

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NowRX CEO: Why DTC Pharmacy Is An Easier Pill For Consumers To Swallow

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Large pharmacy chains selling mixed merchandise are a mainstay of life throughout the developed world. Familiar planograms with the pharmacy in back, pulling shoppers through rows of candy and cosmetics to get their medicine is an everyday routine. Or it was. Big Pharmacy’s reliance on the sale of non-pharmacy products — a strategy that’s worked for years — may now be an Achilles’ heel in a post-pandemic battle for prescription drug market share, where waiting on pharmacy lines with sick people

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Digital Innovation Is Fueling The Reemergence Of Business

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“The digital economy is here, and those payment providers that are global, digital and fully resilient will lead the reemergence.” . “Robust operational resilience is now a non-negotiable component of any business engagement,” according to Manish Kohli , global head of payments and receivables, Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions. “By the very nature of our industry and regulatory requirements, banks have made resilience a core competency.

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Say ‘Goodbye’ to Clunky Spreadsheets and Say ‘Hello’ to Month-End Automation

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, emails, and shared drives no longer need to slow you down. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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How Mastercard Uses AI To Fight Fraud And Make Better Credit Decisions

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Mastercard is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to hit fraudsters hard by searching for emerging patterns of criminal activity before they become major problems, two top executives told Karen Webster during Mastercard’s Virtual Cyber & Risk Summit. “In many cases, AI is fundamental to scaling and keeping up with the pace of the network transactions that are happening,” said Sudhir Jha , a Mastercard senior vice president and head of Brighterion , an AI company that Masterca

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Fostering Payments Trust In A Global Freelance Economy

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Before the pandemic hit, the global freelancing economy was expected to experience significant proliferation. Today, while shutdowns have led many businesses to temporarily halt non-essential spending, many in the market actually expect the expansion of the freelancing community to accelerate as a result of market volatility. One factor behind that thinking is certainly the sudden jolt of job losses, guiding many professionals once reliant on hourly or salaried employment to step into the world

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Digital IDs Help Open Banking Reach Its Fullest Potential

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Open banking comes in several flavors, yet its rise requires robust Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) procedures, Zac Cohen , chief operating officer at identity verification firm Trulioo told Karen Webster in a recent interview. As financial institutions (FIs) work with FinTechs, they need to know that these tech-nimble startups are not only enabling access to customers’ account data but also in a manner that embraces KYC and AML.

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Payments And Platforms Play Well Together

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As virtual marketplaces displace (and replace) the physical variety at a dizzying pace, payments speed and security are paramount concerns. When transactions and payments occur cross-border, those concerns are doubled. Companies want and need more visibility into cross-border payments, and with the blastoff of eCommerce in 2020, those needs grow daily.

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Outsourcing Vs. In-House: The Ultimate Battle For Better Collections

Speaker: Susan Richards

Your past-due accounts are growing, cash flow is tightening, and the pressure is on. The big question: Do you handle the collections internally or outsource to experts? Both strategies come with advantages and risks - but which one delivers the best impact for your business? In this session we’ll dive deep into the in-house vs. outsourcing debate, examining cost-effectiveness, efficiency, compliance risks, and overall recovery success rates.