Chalk Q1 up for the good guys – finally. According to the Global Fraud Index™, a PYMNTS and Signifyd collaboration, fraud is dropping – down 34.7 percent from Q1 2016 to Q1 2017. But, of course, the battle is far from over. Despite the decline, eCommerce merchants are still estimated to lose $48.2 billion in sales to fraud in 2017. For all of the details, including sector analysis and a U.S. deep dive, check out the Index. 2,500 data points can’t be wrong.  Read More...

In recent weeks, Alipay introduced mobile payments in Hong Kong dollars to 2,000 Hong Kong retailers and expanded to the U.S. market. Alibaba also branched out with food delivery startup investment and partnered with Chinese grocer Lianhua Supermarkets. But Alibaba's number-one competitor Tencent Holdings is making all the same moves...  Read More...

Finding a qualified painter was a pain point that Paintzen’s co-founder and COO, Justin Geller, set out to solve for when his cleaning platform wanted to expand to a new vertical. In this week’s Matchmaker Is In, Geller explains how Paintzen’s platform went from a crude pilot in 2013 to a “real business” 4 years later, now driving 85 percent of the sales for the platform's painters.  Read More...