Author: Sarim Pixako

A new digital, contactless feature for India-based software developer Marg ERP will hopefully help users maintain social distancing when working with retailers and other people dealing in day-to-day transactions, a press release says. According to CEO Thakur Anup Singh, the process will revolve around QR codes. The feature is entitled “My Shop QRID” and will encourage customers to scan … Continue reading New Marg ERP Feature To Aid Social Distancing In Payments Continue Reading →

Bjarke Ingels Group and Norwegian manufacturer or urban furniture Vestre have unveiled The Plus, a new project set to become the world’s most sustainable furniture factory tucked in the heart of the Norwegian forest.  Envisioned as a village for a community dedicated to the cleanest, carbon-neutral fabrication of urban and social furniture, The Plus aims to be a global … Continue reading Bjarke Ingels Group Unveils Furniture Factory For Vestre In Norwegian Forest Continue Reading →

Keeping up with customers’ shifting behaviors and preferences amid changing regulations is a familiar challenge for today’s small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), but the pandemic’s impact on the scale of digital payments has steepened the learning curve for these merchants. SMBs around the globe are dealing with an unprecedented surge in online payment volumes as consumers eschew … Continue reading Deep Dive: How SMBs Can Brace For Changing Digital Payment Regulations Continue Reading →

The Chinese office of Stefano Boeri has won an international competition to build a Rehabilitation Center for people with disabilities in Shenzhen. The complex will take the form of a building that is both fully accessible and integrated into the urban fabric in the Longhua district, adjacent to an urban park and directly connected to the city’s light mobility system.  The construction … Continue reading Stefano Boeri To Built Largest and Most Innovative Rehabilitation Center of China Continue Reading →

Many Americans have seen their household incomes become one of COVID-19’s many casualties, as the U.S. unemployment rate has skyrocketed and millions of workers who still have jobs face cuts to their hours or pay rates. New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that while the official jobless rate was 13.3 percent as of May, … Continue reading The One Employment Stat That Could Threaten The Recovery Continue Reading →

In a frenzy, organizations dove headfirst into their digital transformations as a result of the global pandemic. For many companies that had been laggards in their modernization efforts, this digitization process wasn’t simply about business continuity — it was about business survival. Now that the dust has (somewhat) settled, firms are beginning to take stock … Continue reading How Pandemic Disruption Exposed The Value Of Data Integration Continue Reading →

German studio Von M has recently built Hotel Bauhofstrasse in Ludwigsburg, Germany, using wooden room modules assembled on-site in just five working days. The four-storey building adopts the height of the directly neighboring building, but initially appears as a white strange object. Bright, almost blinding, are facade and roof, the openings are executed as inserted, uprightly formatted boxes with … Continue reading Von M Builds Hotel Bauhofstrasse Using Prefabricated Wooden Room Modules Continue Reading →

In a PYMNTS interview, NICE Actimize Head of Fraud Strategy Rob Tharle shed light on a nasty downside to the proliferation of open banking around the globe. “Open banking promises to bring benefits to consumers and businesses alike but also carries some threats,” he said. “Moving to open banking with APIs [application programming interfaces] has impacts on fraud … Continue reading FIs Embrace FinTech Collabs With An Eye On Functionality Continue Reading →

If you’re an online merchant, you may be all too familiar with this drill. A shopper finds you online, finds a product to buy, fills their cart and hits the checkout button. Transaction declined. Maybe the card has expired. Or maybe it’s maxed out the credit limit. If it’s a debit card, bank account or … Continue reading PayPal’s Magats: Digital Shift Forces New Focus On Auth Rates — And New Ways To Boost Them Continue Reading →

Consumers’ commerce patterns have been very much upended in the past few months and shifted heavily to digital. On the upside, this digital gold rush has created an opportunity for merchants to push about a decade’s worth of digital innovations out the door in weeks. But the bad news is that fraudsters see a once-in-a-lifetime … Continue reading Why Fighting Fraud Means Looking Beyond The Transaction Continue Reading →