| Could The Future Of Fighting Fraud On The âDark Webâ Actually Be Bright? The Dark Web is a minefield for criminal activity where criminals sell payment and consumer ID data on illicit digital marketplaces all in the name of defrauding consumers and merchants. Terbium Labsâ CEO Danny Rogers tells PYMNTS that there are some new, perhaps even counterintuitive, methods to fight back. If FIs are willing to break out of old habits and institutional inertia. |
| Instagram Talks New Shopping Features And Why It Doesnât Have A Buy Button New shopping features recently introduced by Instagram arguably provide a strong sense of where digital commerce is headed, and how more consumers will shop. Instagramâs Paige Cohen talks with PYMNTS about the rationale behind the new tools, and why the social network still doesnât offer a buy button. In addition, fresh PYMNTS research provides a detailed picture on why companies like Instagram are rushing to beef up their product discovery and mobile offerings. |
| Layawayâs Visible Resurrection Layaway â the practicing of paying off a purchase a little at a time before taking it home â first got its foothold in the U.S. during the Great Depression. By the 1980s, however, the practice was on its way out, and was more or less pulseless in the '90s, displaced by credit cards. But in the last few years layaway has been making a comeback as a conscientious budgeting move, whether or not the customer can use credit. |
| | Digital Banking | | Cuscal On Digital Banking Done Down Under Is Australia ready for a purely digital bank? Cuscal is putting tech and funding behind one such offering â called 86400 â that will look to challenge the traditional banking model when it launches next year. In an interview with Karen Weber, Cuscalâs Managing Director Craig Kennedy weighs in on why AI and mobile, combined, can help gain consumersâ trust, and take market share from the âBig Four.â |
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