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November 6, 2019

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Building A Challenger Bank That Actually Challenges Traditional Banking

The problem with challenger banks, HM Bradley CEO Zach Bruhnke tells Karen Webster, is that most of these "new" banks are just old ideas dressed up with a slick digital interface. That’s why, when HM Bradley launches, it will be less of a challenger bank and more of a bank to challenge the status quo — starting with rethinking the definition of a deposit account, and how interest should be paid on those balances. Here’s the view from the launchpad.

 

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Recurring Payments

How Bank Debits Are Driving Subscription Commerce Growth

Recurring payments are gaining steam, particularly as more businesses look overseas for growth. Bank debits could be one key to tying together those trends, Pranav Sood, vice president and general manager of international expansion at GoCardless, tells PYMNTS. It’s not just B2C transactions that could benefit, either. Here’s what he says needs to happen to promote further growth — and the role that bank debit for recurring billing can play.

 

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PODCAST: Fraud Prevention

When Being Proactive Creates Fraud Blind Spots

What you don’t know is what can really hurt your business — but how do you know what you don’t know? In a new podcast, Yinglian Xie, CEO and co-founder of DataVisor, talks with Karen Webster about filling in the blind spots that fraudsters can exploit, and using new tech to spot hidden patterns.

 

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Gig Economy

Creating Gig Economy Payments Trust Factor

Trust and security are becoming increasingly important to more consumers around the world, and that’s having a significant impact on payments and commerce players, and the innovations in how they pay gig workers. Venu Javarappa, chief product officer at Qwil, talks with PYMNTS about how to keep and build that trust, as companies and the gig economy ecosystem grow.

 

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PSD2 Tracker™

Why Barclaycard Says Consumers Are Key To SCA Success

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is imperative to improving payment security — if EU regulators and financial institutions (FIs) could only agree on how to implement it. This lack of clarity can leave consumers with a confusing checkout experience across merchants and FIs, says Barclaycard Director of Payment Acceptance Paul Adams. In the latest PSD2 Tracker, he explains why improving consumer awareness is key to realizing SCA’s true potential.

 

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