Wells Fargo's Merchant Services Is The Latest Lawsuit Target, Plus Billie Launches SMB Invoice Financing With Wirecard, And GeoSwift, Western Union, UnionPay Launch Tuition Pay Promotion For Chinese Students.
 

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August 142017

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Regulatory Tracker

FinTech Mergers a-Plenty, While in Trump Era, Fewer Fines for Firms
 

Merger mania may be gripping payments firms, but what about MoneyGram and its own regulatory hurdles? Plus, financial firms are enjoying a bit of respite from fines in Trump's Washington. That, and more, in this week's Regulatory Tracker.
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PayFac

So, You Want To Be A PayFac
 

In Episode One of the PYMNTS PayFac Podcast Series, Rich Aberman, co-founder of WePay, taught us what a PayFac is. In Episode Two, he explained how PayFacs differ from a merchant of record and why a merchant might choose one over the other. In Episode Three, Aberman walks Karen Webster through the process, step-by-step.
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Innovation And Disruption

The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017
 

Facebook is slammed for squashing startups and being a “copycat.” Google gets fined $2.7B for being anticompetitive in a sector that doesn’t matter much five years after its complaint was filed. Amazon and Whole Foods — and their combined whopping 2.5 percent market share of grocery if the deal is approved — are being called out for possibly running afoul of antitrust regs. All things that, Karen Webster says, make salacious headlines around the classic “David versus Goliath” narrative. But ignore the innovation elephant in the online platform room — today’s Goliaths are all competing in a complicated ecosystem where it’s impossible to identify clearly who’s competing with whom — and for what and on whose turf.

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