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257Building Digital Power While Breaking Down Barriers
The latest numbers out of the payments and commerce world show eCommerce and other retail gains for a major U.S.-based player, while...
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2.8KThe Inverted Approach To Tackling Fraud
Banks, financial institutions (FIs) and other firms are grappling with a flood of application fraud and identity theft. In other news, customers see self-service...
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1.6KToday In Data: Digital Disbursements In Unexpected Markets
Digital disbursements are appearing in unexpected markets, such as sports betting platforms and boatsharing sites. Uber’s and Lyft’s initial public offerings (IPOs) are expected to take place this year, which...
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1.5KSigning Onto The Subscription Model – And Signing Onto Cryptos?
Increasingly, the subscription model has gained traction across all manner of offerings – from meal kits to razors to, of course, movies...
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1.7KData As A Prescription For FIs And Healthy Healthcare Collections
Data is everywhere, and ripe for the mining. It can help financial firms offer better services and can help healthcare providers set...
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803Great Expectations (And Demand) For Gig Workers And Digital Services Gone Global
The idea of “on demand” is firmly entrenched in the consumer mindset – increasingly so, as services are ever more digital, and...
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670Dynamic Friction, Keeping Consumers Safe Amid Contextual Commerce
Contextual commerce is everywhere, and much desired by consumers (just check out some of the latest stats from the Digital Consumer Report)....
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1.5KDigital Payments, Connected Commerce And The Need For Speed
For consumers, and increasingly for businesses, speed is coveted when it comes to payments. That’s especially true as transactions are done in...
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1.2KDigital Gains Often Come With Setbacks — And Criminality
One of the participants in one of the biggest payments megadeals to date has made recent gains — a good sign for...
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2.1KNew Paths And Pressures For Payments
The payments landscape in Europe is set to change later this year, with PSD2 joining GDPR in a kind of early 21st-century...
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2.1KMerchants And Innovators Fight Friction — But Sometimes It Wins
Reducing friction is among the top goals of the digital era. Sometimes, real-life payments hassles encourage entrepreneurial action to fix a global problem. Other...
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2.0KPayment And Retail Integration Flows From Many Digital Fronts
One of the main goals of digital payments and retail is to encourage seamless connections – and not just when it comes...
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2.0KMaking Ends Meet As Consumer Margins Narrow
Even as the economy’s ongoing health and the growth in jobs and payroll win praise from multiple quarters, further evidence keeps emerging...
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1.8KToday In Data: Consumers, Brands And The Power Of Self-Sufficiency
While consumers are always looking for services – and tend to reward customer-obsessed brands – it can be easy to forget that customers also loving...
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1.8KToday In Data: Keeping Up In Accelerating Ecosystems
While stock prices have been varied as earnings have come out – depending on specific results – the fact of rapidly digitizing...
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1.8KToday In Data: Supersized Solutions (For Supersized Troubles)
In a “go big or go home” environment, it is not surprising that so many players prefer to go big. It’s why...
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4.4KScoring A Touchdown For Consumer Choice
Customers want what they want, whether that be a voice assistant, a family vacation or to place a wager on the biggest...
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2.1KToday In Data: Adapting To The New Rules As Written
Digital commerce is evolving around the world. In some places, like India, it is happening by statute, and leaving no small amount...
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2.6KToday In Data: Payment Protocols In The Age Of PSD2
The European Union’s (EU’s) PSD2 is making merchants that deal with payment data from Eurozone citizens enhance their payment protocols. In other...
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2.9KToday In Data: Driving Contactless Adoption With Community Banks
Community banks could put more contactless cards into the hands of consumers with the help of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). At the same...
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2.3KToday In Data: The Subscription Features Consumers Want
Target plans to bring contactless payments to all stores in the United States over the next several weeks. More retailers are tapping...
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1.7KToday In Data: The Smart Shopping Cart Of The Future
Retail startup Caper is reinventing the grocery store experience with a shopping cart that automatically checks out the items shoppers place inside...
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3.0KToday In Data: The Future Of Faster Payments
Financial Innovation Now (FIN) submitted a public letter in December, contending that the Fed was best-positioned to operate a ubiquitous, interoperable real-time payments network. Innovation,...
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2.1KToday In Data: The Seen And Unseen Advantages Of The Digital World
The world of financial services is no longer going digital – it’s gone digital, a fact confirmed by the recent spree of...
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3.2KToday In Data: Big Shifts, Long Holdouts And The March Of Progress
The big news of the week, of course, is the announcement that Fiserv will be buying First Data Corp. in an all-stock...
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2.5KToday In Data: New Solutions For Old Problems
Some problems are as old as time itself: managing cash flow as an SMB or consumer, or finding better ways to fight...
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2.4KToday In Data: Innovating Out Of A Challenge
There is no shortage of challenges in the world. Some are massive – like the ever-growing cost of medical care in the...
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2.4KToday In Data: The Global Digital Commerce Reset
With the new year now up and running, it’s becoming obvious that a few big sea changes are underway. Physical retail, as...
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2.0KToday In Data: Digital Upgrades Where You’d Least Expect Them
There are places where one would expect that technological innovations would play a big part in making things run better: banking, finance,...
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2.7KToday In Data: Convenience Delivered By Speed And Streamlining
The key to making something more convenient for consumers usually lies in one of two areas: making something faster to do, or...
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Today In Data: Convenience Delivered By Speed And Streamlining
The key to making something more convenient for consumers usually lies in one of two areas: making something faster to do, or...
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1.5KToday In Data: Flexibility Is The Best Policy
What consumers want mostly is choice – and they tend to prefer retailers and service providers that offer it to them. That...
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1.9KToday In Data: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Gambling isn’t new to payments and commerce players – every new idea is a gamble, in a sense – but creating instant...
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2.2KToday In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules...
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2.1KToday In Data: Aligning Expectations In The New Year
When customers and those that fulfill their needs are in alignment, all is right with the commerce world. Unfortunately, sometimes things get...
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1.9KToday In Data: The Era Of Evolving Expectations
A new year is as good a time as any to think about change – which is probably why resolutions are popular...
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2.1KToday In Data: New Year, New Efficiencies
The new year is here, and a new lease on efficiency and streamlining is loose in the payments and commerce ecosystem. Merchants...
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2.7KDoes An Active Holiday Shopping Season Portend A Happy Spending New Year?
The holiday sales season is nearly done for 2018, and it’s so far so good — particularly for eCommerce. But will 2018’s...
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3.3KThe High-Value Opportunities On The Table In 2019
While at times it can feel like it’s all be done before and that all that’s left now are iterations, as 2019...
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2.1KEverything Old Is New Again
Some things that feel new are not. Platform businesses that match-make between groups became all the rage over the last decade or...
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1.8KOut With The Old, In With The New
Five years is not a long time, but an awful lot can change in that time frame. Consumers these days expect to...
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2.7KToday In Data: Making A Map For 2019 Commerce
With a little over a week left in 2018, the brightest minds in payments and commerce are offering their last summaries on...
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2.1KToday In Data: Keeping Track Of Consumer Context
Context is everything, particularly in the age of digital retail where catching the consumer at the right moment is the difference between a conversion...
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1.8KToday In Data: Connecting The Dots In The Ticketing Landscape
Reselling platforms are seeking to take on risk and delays in the ticketing space by connecting fragmented infrastructures. At the same time,...
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2.3KToday In Data: Ending 2018, Predicting 2019
Getting into the predictions game in payments and commerce is always a dangerous move, as things so often take unexpected and unprecedented...
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1.9KToday In Data: The Challenges Of Finding And Protecting Value
In recent years, the payments and commerce ecosystem has been about the finding new value – and then finding ways to protect...
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2.8KToday In Data: Monetizing The Mailbox For Last-Mile Delivery
The Treasury Department noted in a report last week that USPS could generate additional revenue by charging package delivery companies for access...
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2.3KToday In Data: Creating The Next Generation Of Digital Connections
While it is easy to feel like the whole world’s gone digital, the reality is that there are larger than expected places...
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2.9KToday In Data: The ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back’ Dance In Payments And Commerce
While progress is always ongoing in payments and commerce, its path isn’t always straightforward or even. In China, mobile payments adoption has...
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2.3KToday In Data: Giving Customers What They Want
The customer is always right, which means giving them what they want is rule one of commerce. But what the customer wants...
