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JD.com Continues To Automate Logistics With $55M Stake

PYMNTS

The company does it to assure the market and customers that it can provide better quality control and a more satisfying user experience.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. All-digital, all-tech lending platforms that could deliver better user experiences and faster credit decisioning would become the new normal and take share from banks who were too big and cost-laden to keep — or catch — up.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

PYMNTS

[Note to the payments history buffs out there: The real decoupled debit interchange pioneer was a company called Tempo, aka Debitman , established in 2000 and acquired by HSBC in 2006 after struggling for years to get acceptance at merchants.]. But even that has changed.

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M-Pesa’s Quiet Mobile Revolution 10 Years In

PYMNTS

According to “the father of mPesa,” Michael Joseph , when the idea first appeared on his desk in 2006, M-Pesa was really about something quite different than what it has since grown into — originally it was designed for the microfinance industry for the disbursement and repayment of microfinance loans.

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Retain and Grow Deposit Market Share as Interest Rates Rise

FICO

There is one key additional challenge which remains: How do we make forecasts in a rate-rising environment when the last cycle of rate rises began in 2006? . Read how a leading global bank improves its trade-offs between growth and margin with consistent modelling, methods, and user experience. Neil Jennings.

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Xero Partners with Expensify for In-House Expense Management

Fintech Labs Insights

“From one product-driven technology company to another, we’re committed to improving an already world-class user experience and process,” Expensify Director of Sales and Success Jason Mills said.

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WTF USA EMV CVM POS PIN SNAFU

Tomorrow's Transactions

In the UK, we had chip and PIN day ( St.Valentine’s Day 2006 ) and that, pretty much, was that. However, until such time, we should probably make an effort to improve the user experience (UX) for the typical consumer and make cards work better for the merchants. From The Great EMV Fake-Out: No Chip For You! Krebs on Security.

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