What major trends are dominating the payments landscape in 2019, and where are we heading? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

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If you’re a woman over 50 thinking about starting a business, a great way to learn how to do it is by speaking with women entrepreneurs who’ve done so successfully. I just had an opportunity to do just that, talking with three I saw at the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit in New Orleans last week (where I also spoke about starting a business in midlife).

They are: Pat Campbell, a Nashville-based serial entrepreneur who’ll soon launch her third business selling high-quality CBD products; Jay Newton-Small, the Washington, D.C.-based founder and CEO of MemoryWell, a digital storytelling platform to improve dementia and Alzheimer’s care and Bailey Beeken, the New York City-based founder of Senior Care Marketing Summit, a trade show and conference producer.

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Although Uber still dominates the market for business travelers, a new survey shows those riders are more satisfied with Lyft (LYFT).

According to The Certify Q1 2019 SpendSmart Report, business riders were more satisfied using Lyft than they were using Uber. During the first-quarter of 2019, Lyft earned an average rating of 4.9 versus Uber’s 4.6 and taxis’ 4.0. Lyft also grew in market share and average cost-per-ride from first-quarter 2018 to first-quarter 2019.

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Saving for retirement is a long and thoughtful journey. It takes decades of consistent saving to see your nest egg grow to a healthy size, and it's not something you can achieve overnight.

However, when it comes to retirement planning, a good chunk of the population is taking a huge gamble -- literally.

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The fate of Afghanistan rests on a little-discussed human rights issue that will determine whether the war-torn nation can rebuild itself once a peace agreement is reached, a senior official overseeing reconstruction there said Wednesday.

International backers, including the U.S., will only continue to pay for rebuilding Afghanistan if a peace agreement includes securing rights for women and girls, John Sopko, the congressionally appointed special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, told a small group of reporters Wednesday.

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President Donald Trump said he doesn't want current and former staffers to testify before congressional committees, pointing to the White House's cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation as evidence that he's already done enough.

In a Tuesday interview with The Washington Post, Trump argued that "there's no reason to go any further" when it comes to Congress' requests to question White House aides, calling the legislative body "very partisan." He said that he hasn't made a final decision about asserting executive privilege to block Democrats' requests for congressional testimony.

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A little over seven years ago, indigenous activist Rosalinda Dionicio Sánchez was driving home to the mountain town of San Jose del Progreso with two colleagues when a car pulled up alongside and began shooting at them – Sanchez was shot twice, her cousin Bernardo Vasquez Sanchez, was killed.

According to Sanchez, the attack was in retaliation for their protests against Canadian firm Fortuna Silver Mines, which acquired a mine near the village in Oaxaca state in 2006. Since then, the town has become divided between those, like Sanchez, who oppose the company, and local government officials and miners who support it.

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More than half a million children in the UK were not given a crucial measles jab between 2010 and 2017, an analysis by children's charity Unicef reveals.

It comes as NHS chief Simon Stevens warned measles cases had almost quadrupled in England in just one year and urged families to get the vaccine.

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This article is adapted from Workplace Letter, produced by Nishi Sunder. It aired on Business Matters and World Business Report from the BBC World Service. Adapted for BBC Capital by Angela Henshall.

If you’ve spent much time working with recent graduates – people who have just finished university without much work experience – you’ve probably witnessed your share of odd office behaviour.

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It’s 03:00. My pillow is soaked with cold sweat, my body tense and shaking after waking from the same nightmare that haunts me every night. I know I’m safe in bed – that’s a fact. My life is no longer at risk, but I can’t stop replaying the terrifying scene that replayed in my head as I slept, so I remain alert, listening for any sound in the dark.

This is one of the ways I experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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