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Barclays Upgrades Mobile Banking App To Control Spending

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11) that customers of its mobile banking app now have the power to prevent spending at certain retailers. The feature, said Barclays, could help all customers gain greater control over their spending and make them less at risk to fraud and scams. Barclays, the U.K. bank, announced Tuesday (Dec.

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Leading analyst IDC recognizes innovation in procurement solutions.

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For decades, the many steps and stakeholders in large enterprise purchasing meant procurement teams had to rely on heavyweight, expensive solutions, while mid-market companies either had to adopt one of those overly cumbersome solutions or throw some ad-hoc procedures together to try to control spend.

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Affirm Launches New Features To Help Consumers Spend Responsibly

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“The more I looked at retailer-sponsored finance, the more I realized people routinely end up paying atrociously more than they bargained for … This is not only morally outrageous, but it’s bad for business.” — Max Levchin , Founder & CEO, Affirm. For consumers who make even the tiniest mistake, free quickly becomes expensive.

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BNPL Snowballs Through The COVID Economy

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Controlling spend may be its own reward, and it can be a great deal more, with the BNPL experiences and integrations that have been making headlines during this troubled year. But it was trending already, he noted, and the longer-term view isn’t so much about COVID as it is about the consumer spending changes left in its wake.

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Stripe’s John Collison On Improving ‘The Art Of Authorization’ Amid A Digital Payments Boom

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Consider the fact that, as PYMNTS found in its “ Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic ” survey across more than 8,000 consumers, the number of consumers who have shifted their retail shopping online has more than tripled. A third of those consumers have reported they will continue that digital shopping even after the economy reopens.