| The Hidden Fraud That Spells Big Marketplace Losses A good intro offer can be a sure way to attract consumers. Yet, it can also draw fraudsters â whoâve found ways to exploit free offers at scale on marketplaces. The good news, Boku CEO Jon Prideaux tells Karen Webster, is that it's easy to lock them out before they start. The bad news is that it's usually hard to know a lock is needed until after losses have piled up. |
| Turning Every Supply Chain Into A Custom B2B Marketplace The B2B eCommerce space now understands that it couldnât follow the same path to adoption that B2C marketplaces did, but a single B2B marketplace can't address all businesses' needs, either. Mark Johnson, CEO of Four51, tells PYMNTS how application programming interface- (API) first platforms now enable corporates to turn their supply chains into unique marketplaces that digitize their order-to-cash cycles. |
| Libra’s Unraveling And The Geneva (Crypto) Convention’s Folly After the mass exodus from Facebook’s Libra project on Friday (Oct. 11), the cryptocurrency’s remaining 22 corporate backers gather in Switzerland today (Oct. 14) to throw their weight behind the new crypto. PYMNTS takes stock of who’s left, what’s next and why building a network without firms to lay the critical tech infrastructure — especially for payments — will be no easy undertaking. |
| | KLW Commentary | | Whatâs Wrong With The Attack On Gig Economy Pay Lawmakers are "guns a-blazin'" over worker pay and benefits for gig economy workers, with Uber and Lyft at the top of their hit list. Karen Webster says that all one has to do is look at the regulated taxi industry to see the great hypocrisy of their claims â an industry, that for decades, hasnât given a whit about the wages or well-being of its independent taxi drivers. Itâs why those attacks, she says, have little to do with worker pay, and everything to do with something else instead. Hereâs what â and why. |
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