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CFPB
Mnuchin Presses CFPB For Answers On Equifax Hack
February 07, 2018

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he has questions for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on its decision to pull back on the probe into last year’s Equifax hack that affected 143 million Americans. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Security & Fraud
Business Wire Suffered Week-Long Hack
February 07, 2018

Business Wire has revealed it was the victim of an almost week-long cyberattack. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

Payment Methods
PayPal On Taking Merchants From Here — To Their Multichannel Anywhere
February 07, 2018

Consumers don’t really care what word retailers and payments providers use to describe a seamless payment experience across all of the places they shop on and offline, or whether that merchant is enterprise large or micro merchant small – they just expect merchants to be...

Merchant Innovation
Google Announces Search-Based Mobile Travel Bookings
February 07, 2018

Google is trying to make it easier for consumers to use their smartphones to directly book travel from a Google search. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Security & Fraud
To Blunt Fraud, Chase The Consumer, Not The Fraudster
February 07, 2018

Here’s a novel concept in the eternal battle against payments fraud: Chase the customer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

Chase Talks Real-Time Payments, Real-Time Ubiquity
February 07, 2018

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Retail
Team USA Launches Omnichannel Strategy For Olympic Retail
February 06, 2018

With the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games not too far away, it’s high season for Team USA merchandise. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

Retail
Apocalypse Not: Brick-And-Mortar Retail Is Neither Dead Nor Dying
February 06, 2018

Frozen food didn’t kill the restaurant. Telephones didn’t kill human interaction. And eCommerce won’t kill brick-and-mortar retail. That’s L Brands CEO and Chairman Les Wexner’s theory, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, in the face of brick-and-mortar retail’s worst year ever. Get the Full Story...

Retail
Walmart Acquires VR Startup Spatialand
February 06, 2018

As Walmart seeks to invest in tech to compete with Amazon, the retailer has acquired a small virtual reality (VR) startup. Spatialand will become the crux of Walmart’s VR efforts as the retailer looks to transform its shopping experience across multiple channels, Recode reported. Get...