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U.S. Bank Adds Touch ID To Mobile Banking
April 04, 2016

U.S. Bank customers’ mobile banking experience just got an upgrade. 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. By completing this...

Merchant Innovation
Facebook, Square and Alt-Lending Look For Signs Of Spring
April 04, 2016

Spring has sprung, Q1 is done and, all around the payments and commerce ecosystem, there have at least been some signs that winter may be coming to a literal and metaphorical end. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Say Goodbye To Google Wallet Debit Cards
April 04, 2016

Thy physical Google Wallet debit cards will soon be no more. 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. By completing...

Merchant Innovation
Domino’s Robot Reality Check
April 04, 2016

If there’s one thing that sci-fi movies almost always skip over, it’s that awkward period when humanity is struggling with new technology it doesn’t quite grasp yet. In movies, teleportation doesn’t interrupt social lives — it accelerates them; flying cars don’t mean every teenager must apply...

Massachusetts Throws Daily Fantasy Sports A Bone
April 01, 2016

While FanDuel and DraftKings may have fallen out of the headlines over the last few months, it’s not because their legal battle with half the 50 states has settled down. If anything, the issue over the legality of the games these sites provide has only...

Retail Brands Rethink GOP Convention Support
April 01, 2016

The Republican National Convention: 50,000 in-person attendees, tens of millions more watching at home, four days of wall-to-wall coverage on TV and online. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Merchant Innovation
Can REVOLVE Turn Heads With B&M ‘Social Club’ In LA?
April 01, 2016

There was a point not too long ago when online-only merchants were happy to thumb their noses at the stodgy paradigm of brick-and-mortar retail, but nowadays, even the chicest brands on either side of the divide know they can’t afford to miss out on any...

Security & Fraud
How Did Chinese Phishers Get $3M From Mattel? They Asked
April 01, 2016

The media is obsessed with the word “hacker.” It’s become something of a digital boogeyman, conjuring up images of hooded teenagers bent over keyboards in rooms full of computers and their constituent parts. When one of their elusive number strikes at the corporate world, their...

Trader Joe’s Coming Price Cuts
April 01, 2016

Could the price war between Whole Foods, the once notoriously expensive grocery chain (oft referred to by critics as “Whole Paycheck”), and notoriously inexpensive outlet Trader Joe’s be heating up? It appears — hold on to your organic heirloom tomatoes — that may be the case. Get...