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In todays top Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA news, U.K. online car retailer Cazoo acquires motor vehicle subscription platform Swipcar for $40 million; Mastercards Aiia powers a new platform in Denmark; JumiaPay app transactions reach 36% of total orders in the third quarter; NewDay
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Which thing on this list is the hardest to do Climbing Mt. KilimanjaroRunning the Boston Marathon in two hoursBeating Korean Grandmaster Lee Sedol at GoIntegrating payments into the point of saleIf you ask developers these days, theyd probably pick payments, since not only is it getting more complicated 鈥斅爐hanks to the number of payments options and channels they need to integrate 鈥?but getting it wrong can cost them a customer relationship.But Vantiv Chief Strategy and Product O
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stanley mugs that they want to be able to quickly grab and integrate into their environment and be done with it. Innovators and developers today want to have easy and fast integrations, and they don ;t want to become payments experts, Mielke explained.Now, Mielke is the first to admit that enabling an ever-growing number of payments may never be simple, but it can get a whole lot easier. That was, she says, the inspiration for the pilot launch of Vantiv new developer platform,聽DevHub. This one-stop platform is intended to improve the developer experience by making it easier for developers to integrate payments functionality by accessing modernized APIs and a new environment for testing, prototyping and certification.What we are really doing is acknowledging that the developer is one of our key stakeholders and really creating a valuable experience for that stakeho
