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Cybersecurity Stocks Still Benefit From Equifax Scandal

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Following the massive data breach at Equifax last year, the cybersecurity sector has flourished – and so have some of the investments that track the industry. The ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF, for example, has risen 18 percent this year, CNBC reported. The exchange-traded fund, which was founded in 2014, notched staggering returns of 31 percent following the Equifax data breach in 2017, twice that of the S&P 500 return during that same time period.

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When Do You Need an Investor Teaser Template?

The SaaS CFO

When Do You Need an Investor Teaser Template? If you are looking for funding or need and an easy way to respond to serious private equity inquiries, then an investor teaser template should be ready to go on your shared drive. This free PowerPoint template (download below) is based on a real-life teaser document and […]. The post When Do You Need an Investor Teaser Template?

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Hobby Lobby May Take Up Shop In Former Toys R Us Stores

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Following the closure of Toys R Us stores in June, retailers in the hobby and off-price segments may fill some of the larger empty big-box spaces. Companies such as Big Lots and Ashley Homestore had bid on the properties in bankruptcy court, but one hobby retailer may be particularly interested in Toys R Us’ former stores, The Wall Street Journal reported. “ Hobby Lobby especially is very aggressive,” Kimco Realty Chief Executive Conor Flynn said at a conference.

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Reeling In Shoppers With A Digital Take On Layaway

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What to do for the shopper with champagne tastes — and a beer budget? For consumers with an appetite for designer, but a budget perhaps more tailored to fast fashion, the digital age offers a myriad of solutions: Buy it used, rent it temporarily or risk a knock-off from an extreme online discounter that may (or may not) be offering the real deal. Another option, the classic, is to whip out the plastic card with the highest limit and buy the designer good brand new — absolutely real and owned by

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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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Finding The Worth In The Personal Touch

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The digital age desperately wants to help consumers answer an important, age-old question: What should I wear today? The “hows” of solving that question have become increasingly high-tech in recent years. At any number of websites, consumers can answer a questionnaire that covers their relevant measurements and sartorial preferences to create a profile.

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Mid-Year 2018: Payments Execs Map Out What’s Next

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The world is getting faster these days. Change happens at the speed of, well, if not light, then sound. The information deluge is constant. Commerce is constant. Payments and financial services? Always on, too, and always in demand. There’s no such thing as “bankers’ hours” anymore. No surprise, then, that innovation in the payments space is getting ever-more truncated in terms of time to market.

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Tradeshift Tests MakerDAO’s Stablecoin For Invoice Solution

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In an effort to expedite payments for small businesses, MakerDAO is working with Tradeshift to tokenize unpaid invoices through an experimental program. MakerDAO, which has a stablecoin called Dai, said the token is being tested with the Tradeshift Cash solution, CoinDesk reported. With the effort, a small business could have the opportunity to change an invoice into the Dai stablecoin.

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Using IoT Tech To Drive Grocery Sales

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Shoe sellers can dust off a pair of unsold sneakers and keep them on the shelf until they sell, but businesses like grocery stores don’t have that luxury. Instead, they must keep a tight focus on moving goods out the doors — especially items with an expiration date. As such, grocers are turning to old retail standbys — sales and discounts — to help spur purchases, and for good reason.

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The Future Of In-Store Pick-Up With Lockers

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As retailers expand their omnichannel efforts with in-store pickup, they are faced with a challenge: What is the best way to help their customers retrieve their orders from their brick-and-mortar stores? Home Depot , for example, is taking a page out of the Amazon retail playbook by installing lockers in many of its locations to support its in-store pick-up service.

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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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From Blockbuster The Chain To Blockchain The Movie?

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We’ve come a long way, Mr. Edison. Since the early days of cinema, the moving image has captured the imagination of, well, everyone. In some ways, the formula hasn’t changed much, but the means of distribution have. We’ve moved from literal celluloid to digital, where films are beamed through bits and bytes into theaters. Now? From blockbuster to Blockbuster the chain to … blockchain.

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Alibaba Tests Out ‘FashionAI’ Concept Store

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By opening a temporary store with apparel from Guess , Alibaba is testing out its inaugural “FashionAI” concept at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Guess is looking to use the technology in stores, starting with Hong Kong and mainland China, Retail Dive reported. The concept store works with Alibaba’s Taobao platform and, when customers enter the concept store, they check in with a code from Taobao.

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Direct-To-Consumer Firms Rethink Facebook Advertising

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Direct-to-consumer advertising on Facebook has reportedly hit a rough patch, with spending by brands decreasing there. The trend comes at a time when brands are facing other changes on the social media site. Ten direct-to-consumer companies recently surveyed by Digiday all said their marketing plans are relying less on Facebook, as focus and dollars shift to other online marketing channels — and that includes Instagram , owned by Facebook.

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TRENDING: Can mPOS Solutions Win Over Cash-Centric Industries?

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Players in the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) space are focusing on catering to payment needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Efforts range from Mobeewave ’s collaboration over an in-person contactless payment solution for small merchants in the UAE to myPOS ’ efforts to steer taxi drivers away from cash and onto its card-accepting mPOS. In the July mPOS Tracker , PYMNTS explores all the latest initiatives.

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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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Kuwait Finance House Teams Up With Visa For Mobile Wallet

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To roll out a mobile wallet for its credit and prepaid Visa cardholders, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) teamed up with Visa. The wallet will use Visa’s token service, and KFH Chief Retail and Private Banking Officer Waleed Khaled Mandani said to the media that the tie-up will help its customers use the newest technologies for payments on the market, according to reports.

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Blockchain Inches Slowly Out Of Pilot Phase

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It seems that blockchain may never leave the lab and enter the real world. And, indeed, this week’s Blockchain Tracker continues its coverage of ongoing tests and trails of blockchain solutions. That includes a new Know Your Customer (KYC) application for banks, as well as Hong Kong’s latest cross-border trade finance initiative using distributed ledger technology (DLT).

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Bank Of America Deploys Biometrics For Enterprise Mobile Banking

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Enterprise processes are starting to look a lot more like the consumer world. From procurement’s path to mimic an Amazon experience, to the Bring Your Own Device movement, corporates have embraced the movement toward user-friendly processes for the sake of convenience and efficiency. This consumerization of the enterprise has emerged as a heavyweight behind corporates’ digital transformations – but businesses aren’t consumers, and emerging technologies must address unique needs

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Sonos Pushes Forward With IPO

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Though not much of a surprise to anyone, speaker company Sonos has filed to go public, and will likely be trading on the public markets by the end of the month. The Wall Street Journal first reported that a June IPO was in the firm’s future back in April. The news comes as the company is reporting a net loss of $14.2 million on revenue of $992.5 million for its most recent fiscal year.

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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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How Winnie Wants To Build The Portal Parents Need

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Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems. And Winnie’s co-founders were something of a unique dynamic duo in Silicon Valley terms. Like many of their fellows, they were young, entrepreneurial and technology-minded. They also had resumes that included stints at a veritable catalog of tech headliners, including Twitter, Google, YouTube, Quora and Postmates (to name a few).

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Why Mobile Is The Merchant’s Secret Weapon At The Beach

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Summer is here, which means Americans will be decamping to the beach en masse this summer — hoping to escape the heat, get a tan and, hopefully, finally kick back relax to enjoy the season. Not as many Americans take vacations as they did in a bygone era — the Great Recession seems to have cured many people of the desire to take time off work, likely for fear of not still having working upon their return — but, according to estimates by AAA , tens of millions of Americans will decamp for parts u

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IPOs Sizzle Amid Stocks, While Ripple Gets Served

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Sizzle. IPOs: See a renaissance of sorts, topping $35 billion in 2018, amid the fastest pace in 20 years and among verticals as far-flung as wholesale clubs and FinTech firms. The volume is the highest seen since 2014. Capital is flowing and investors’ pulses are quickening, it seems. Chatbots and the bottom line: Talk about money where the mouth is — kinda.

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Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017

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Generating year-on-year growth of nearly 4 percent, Smart Payment Association (SPA) data indicates that 2.3 billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in an announcement.

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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 TV Can Support Digital Marketing And Online Payments

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By the cultural standards of today, the technology is ancient, born amid hot jazz and bootleg booze, when memories of the slaughters of the “The Great War” — now called World War I — were still fresh enough to hurt. History, though, is often wonderfully contradictory, even contrarian, and as the internet age matures, it is becoming more difficult to imagine digital life without the benefit of television.

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NEW DATA: Why Australians Haven’t Given Up On Cash

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In the 26 years of continued economic growth in Australia , cash has continued to play an imperative role. In 2016 alone, Australian consumers and businesses spent some $143 billion in cold, hard cash. But while the country sees a high usage of the age-old payment method, it is also seeing a proliferation of digital payment methods. Established financial institutions and up-and-coming FinTech startups alike are introducing an endless stream of new payments technologies.

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Personal Loans Are The Fastest-Growing Lending Category

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As a consumer lending category with the fastest growth, outstanding balances for personal loans jumped by about 18 percent to $120 billion in the first quarter. And the percentage of loans originated by FinTech firms is growing astronomically: While they originated less than 1 percent of personal loans in 2010, they originated 36 percent of them in 2017, Bloomberg reported.

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Five At Five: Amazon Prime’s Real Value

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Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a discussion of the real value of Amazon Prime, and why Walgreens sees new profit in China. Alibaba has a new idea about fashion, Visa has a new path in Kuwait and there is new information about the impact of tariffs. Analyst: Amazon Prime Subscription Worth $180 Today.

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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.