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Sat - April 29, 2017


PayPal CEO On The Power Of Partnerships


NEW REPORT: Small Retailers Play Big With Consumer-Friendly Tech


NEW REPORT: Why Mobile Order-Ahead Is On The Menu


Many 'Waze' To Satisfy A Dunkin' Crave


MoneyGram Plus Ant — But Then What?


P2PE’s Silver Lining In Cybercrime’s Dark Cloud


How DocuSign Turns Contracts Into Commerce


PayPal’s 203M Users Drive More Frequency


NEW REPORT: Will On-Demand Fill-Up Fuel Commuter Disruption?


Amazon’s eCommerce Growth Streak Continues


Helping Investors Avoid The Lending Club Trap


Walmart2Walmart’s Fee Fighters


New Report: Machines Fight Fraud


Helping Acquirers Embrace An App-Centric Future


WEX: Fleetly Managing Gas (and Other) Fleet Expenses


Banks/FinTech Face Long and Winding (Regulatory) Road


Hacker Tracker: U.S. Most Willing To Pay On Ransomware


What Pinterest Wants To Be When It Grows Up


Gen Z Goes Phys-igtal


What Post-Millennials Want


How Retailers Can Reclaim A Month of Lost Sales


Connected Car Tracker: Waymo Grows Tests While Amazon Eyes Tech


What The People Think Of Payday Lending


Madison Reed And The AI Of Hair Color


MoneyGram CIO Talks Data Security


BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach


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The Week In Very Weird Commerce
 

There is out-of-the-box thinking — and then there is out-of-this-reality thinking. The former is good and presages a lot of disruptive innovation. The latter is not so good and presages a lot of being mocked on Twitter. And the distinction isn’t easy — a Day-Glo drink that tastes bad but photographs well is a great idea. Jeans that come pretty dirtied? Yeah, not so much.

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Ant Financial's Great Mobile Payments Race
 

Money certainly seems to be burning a hole in Alibaba’s and Ant Financial's pockets as they’ve dumped billions of dollars into a variety of mobile payments schemes in the last two years. Its assets across Southeast Asia and the U.S. (should the MoneyGram acquisition be approved) build on the 450 million consumer cornerstone called Alipay already inside China. But Karen Webster said that the real test of their mettle will be waged in India — as they and the global card networks duke it out for the top spot in this critically important economy. And where Ant’s success will hinge on a few very important things.

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