Friction

Corcentric Receives High Marks in Key Categories of Spend Matters Spring 2024 SolutionMap

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Spend, AP, Friction, Forecasting, AI, RFI, Retail

CHERRY HILL, N.J., March 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corcentric , a leading global provider of best-in-class procurement and finance solutions, announced today that the company achieved high marks for its Managed Accounts Payable (AP) , Payments , and Procurement services in the Spend Matters Spring 2024 SolutionMap .

Key Points: 
  • CHERRY HILL, N.J., March 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corcentric , a leading global provider of best-in-class procurement and finance solutions, announced today that the company achieved high marks for its Managed Accounts Payable (AP) , Payments , and Procurement services in the Spend Matters Spring 2024 SolutionMap .
  • The Spring 2024 SolutionMap and TechMatch SM rankings include 79 procurement technology vendors that underwent the most rigorous functionality and capability assessment within the industry.
  • SolutionMap contains 500+ Request for Information (RFI) requirements across 12 Source-to-Pay (S2P) categories with mandatory demos and impartial, anonymized customer ratings.
  • Some users look for configurability, others don’t,” said Pierre Mitchell, chief research officer at Spend Matters.

New Salary.com® Survey Says Time for Pay Transparency Is Now

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Monday, March 18, 2024
Corporate services, Kenexa, Organization, Friction, Consultant, Health care, Communication, Insurance

The company today announced the results of its flagship 2024 Pay Practices Survey.

Key Points: 
  • The company today announced the results of its flagship 2024 Pay Practices Survey.
  • Their companies do not clearly communicate pay structure,” said David Turetsky, Chief Human Resources Officer and Vice President of Consulting at Salary.com.
  • “Our Pay Practices Survey shows a widespread disconnect.
  • Active employee communication is the fix.”
    Salary.com’s mission is to enable pay transparency.

PriceSpider Doubles Down on Innovation with New Commerce Enablement Capabilities

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Monday, March 18, 2024
Research, Friction, Growth, Intelligence, News, Commerce, API, Online shopping

Research consistently shows that friction in the path to purchase often results in lost sales and cart abandonment.

Key Points: 
  • Research consistently shows that friction in the path to purchase often results in lost sales and cart abandonment.
  • With these updates, PriceSpider is unlocking new capabilities that automatically maintain product listings and provide insights into the full customer journey for better, more data-driven decision-making.
  • “Our team is constantly innovating to empower brands to deliver seamless shopping experiences while unlocking new efficiencies and opportunities for growth,“ said Anthony Ferry, CEO of PriceSpider.
  • PriceSpider’s Product Auto-Create tool is currently in beta with select customers who are already reporting significant gains in maintenance efficiency.

Sovryn, the biggest Dapp in Bitcoin DeFi, expands to BOB, a Bitcoin L2

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Friday, March 15, 2024
TVL, Friction, Partnership, BOB, Human, OG, Decentralized finance, Ecosystem, Cryptocurrency

London, UK, March 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sovryn ( www.sovryn.com ), the biggest Bitcoin DeFi platform with $136M TVL, has chosen to expand their DeFi product suite to BOB ( www.gobob.xyz ), a hybrid L2 between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Key Points: 
  • London, UK, March 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sovryn ( www.sovryn.com ), the biggest Bitcoin DeFi platform with $136M TVL, has chosen to expand their DeFi product suite to BOB ( www.gobob.xyz ), a hybrid L2 between Bitcoin and Ethereum.
  • This partnership will remove friction for Ethereum users to move their financial activity into the Bitcoin space, allowing Sovryn to instantly tap into the large Ethereum DeFi user base.
  • By leveraging the combined strengths of the two largest cryptocurrencies, BOB offers users the highest security and liquidity in the market.
  • The Sovryn-BOB partnership comes just in time for the Bitcoin halving, and is set to kick off the “Bitcoin summer” amid rising interest in Bitcoin DeFi and L2s.

Futu Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Unaudited Financial Results

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
Research, Futu, SGD, Friction, Conference, Growth, HK, Name, American depositary receipt, Acquisition, IPO, ADS, Darts, RSVP, J&T Express, Share repurchase, Marketing, Property management

HONG KONG, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Futu Holdings Limited (“Futu” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: FUTU), a leading tech-driven online brokerage and wealth management platform, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • HONG KONG, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Futu Holdings Limited (“Futu” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: FUTU), a leading tech-driven online brokerage and wealth management platform, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.
  • Daily average client assets were HK$470.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, an increase of 22.8% from the same period in 2022.
  • Daily average revenue trades (DARTs)4 in the fourth quarter of 2023 declined 22.2% year-over-year to 369,729.
  • Brokerage commission and handling charge income was HK$904.0 million (US$115.7 million), a decrease of 13.8% from the fourth quarter of 2022.

TransUnion Technology Transformation Reaches Next Phase with Introduction of OneTru™, a Platform Built for AI-Powered Data Collaboration

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Friction, Next, Environment, Intelligence, Risk, TransUnion, Digital, Architecture, IP, Fraud, Machine learning, Privacy, TRU, Marketing, Data management, Online shopping

This unified approach allows TransUnion to deliver a more accurate, complete and compliant picture of consumers, no matter the use case.

Key Points: 
  • This unified approach allows TransUnion to deliver a more accurate, complete and compliant picture of consumers, no matter the use case.
  • “Fragmented data sources and disconnected business applications can compromise access to analytic capabilities and increase time to insights.
  • “This will allow our clients to move beyond traditional identity graphs that are limited to explicit data and deterministic linking.
  • The platform also allows for easy data collaboration between TransUnion solutions and customer data, while maintaining strict user-based permissions and access controls.

Capital Mortgage Services selects MSP® loan servicing system from ICE

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Banking, Other Professional Services, Professional Services, Finance, Friction, Intercontinental Exchange, Intercontinental, Digital, ICE, MSP, Intelligence, Customer service

“While our servicing operation has expanded, we knew we needed a top-of-the-line system that would scale with our business growth without compromising the exceptional experience our customers have come to expect,” said Danny Lewis, CEO of Capital Mortgage Services.

Key Points: 
  • “While our servicing operation has expanded, we knew we needed a top-of-the-line system that would scale with our business growth without compromising the exceptional experience our customers have come to expect,” said Danny Lewis, CEO of Capital Mortgage Services.
  • Capital Mortgage Services will also use the ICE Customer ServiceSM solution to drive more one-call resolutions when a consumer calls a support representative.
  • And using McDash® , Capital Mortgage Services will gain access to an unparalleled view of mortgage performance across the U.S. with the deepest and broadest loan-level data repository in the industry.
  • “ICE is making servicing simple by digitizing and automating processes to reduce friction and introduce new efficiencies,” said Tim Bowler, President of ICE Mortgage Technology.

Zola Expands into Emerging Technology with Launch of Split the Decisions GPT

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Data Management, Online Retail, Technology, Specialty, Other Technology, Bridal, Apps, Applications, Retail, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, ChatGPT, Zola, Marketing, Multimedia, Light, Friction, AI

Today Zola , the most trusted authority in the wedding planning industry, announced the launch of Split the Decisions , an AI tool to help couples divide the decisions in wedding planning equally.

Key Points: 
  • Today Zola , the most trusted authority in the wedding planning industry, announced the launch of Split the Decisions , an AI tool to help couples divide the decisions in wedding planning equally.
  • By Zola’s estimates, couples make more than 500 decisions over the course of planning a wedding, and the “mental load” often falls on one person.
  • “Split The Decisions really acts like a mediator and makes each person think about their answers,” said Allison Cullman, VP Brand Marketing & Strategy at Zola.
  • Split the decisions is available with a ChatGPT+ subscription (which starts at $20/month) and can be found at www.zola.com/expert-advice/it-takes-two or in the ChatGPT store.

eTip’s Digital Tipping and Instant Earnings Disbursement Platform Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Technology, Retail, Transportation, Lodging, Destinations, Travel, Restaurant, Bar, Payments, Other Retail, Vacation, Software, Cruise, Specialty, Data Management, Cloud, Friction, Entrepreneurship, Oracle Cloud, OCI, AI, VMware, Morale, OHIP, Multimedia, Data management

eTip , the award-winning digital tipping and financial benefits platform for service businesses and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced it is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and integrated with OPERA Cloud via the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP).

Key Points: 
  • eTip , the award-winning digital tipping and financial benefits platform for service businesses and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced it is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and integrated with OPERA Cloud via the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP).
  • Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Oracle partners.
  • Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and services offering unique solutions, including ones that extend Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.
  • "eTip’s participation in Oracle Cloud Marketplace further extends our commitment to the Oracle community and enables customers to easily reap the benefits of the eTip platform.

Fastly Unveils New Bot Management Solution to Help Detect and Block Threats at the Edge

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Data Management, Security, Technology, Software, Networks, Internet, Cloud, Organization, Friction, Le Monde, Trust, Fastly, Risk, FSLY, IDC, Denial-of-service attack, Fraud, Online shopping

Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today introduced Fastly Bot Management to help organizations combat automated “bot” attacks at the edge and significantly reduce the risk of fraud, DDoS attacks, account takeovers, and other online abuse.

Key Points: 
  • Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today introduced Fastly Bot Management to help organizations combat automated “bot” attacks at the edge and significantly reduce the risk of fraud, DDoS attacks, account takeovers, and other online abuse.
  • Fastly Bot Management represents an important cybersecurity milestone for the company, building on its proven bot mitigation expertise and capabilities currently available in its Next-Gen WAF.
  • Built for modern development teams, Fastly Bot Management helps reduce complexity by being simple to use, developer-friendly, and highly performant through the power of Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform.
  • Fastly Bot Management is now available to all Fastly Edge Cloud Platform customers.