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779How Digital Tech And Payments Are Making The World Better
Mastercard is doing its part to make instant payments available to more workers, and IKEA is working to bring the gig economy closer to home. Mortgages are...
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1.2KThe Invisible Opportunities That Spark Better Payments And Commerce
Plans are afoot at Google to make the consumer experience better – and while that happens, millennials are increasingly turning to debit, which could have...
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662Making Bigger Bets On Consumers Via Data And Payments
Autonomous technology is getting ready to take over the world – and better data is shaping the QSR consumer experience. Not all consumer...
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1.2KWho’s Ready For Prime-Time Commerce And Payments?
As consumers and commerce get much more sophisticated, payment service providers and merchants are following suit. The vaping industry will tell us a lot about this innovation...
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1.0KReinventing Commerce – Even When It Won’t Cooperate
The world is full of innovative options – but as the old expression goes, you can lead a horse to water, but...
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1.0KFor Retail, High Growth In High-Tech?
Ahead of the holiday season, gadgets of all types are gaining traction in consumer spend. As estimated recently by IDC, consumer spending...
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1.4KHow Technology And Market Trends Spawn Innovation
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are putting a new spin on athleisure wear, inspired by the CBD-based wellness trend. In restaurant technology, cloud kitchens have emerged as a...
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1.6KFor Merchants, Recurring Benefits From Recurring (Subscription) Payments
The subscription model has its lures – especially for retailers and other consumer-facing customers. Chief among them: steady top lines that translate...
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812ID’ing Digital ID’s Potential For Consumers (And Beyond)
The battle for proper identity verification is an ongoing – and perhaps eternal – one. Knowing who’s on the other side of...
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1.3KAmid eCommerce Expansion, Gauging Merchants’ SCA Readiness
The deadline for strong customer authentication (SCA) came last month, and the new standards are among the final mandates of the revised...
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1.0KDriving Innovation With Digital Platforms
Digital platforms are driving innovation in the health and wellness space. ClassPass, for instance, was designed as a one-stop digital shop that allows consumers to...
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1.6KHow QSRs Personalize Ordering Experiences With Kiosks
Taco Bell is among the major restaurant brands that has teamed with delivery service provider Grubhub to reach customers. Beyond its delivery efforts, the company is bringing self-ordering...
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1.2KThe Future Of Commerce Through The Lens Of Maps
Maps are pointing the way toward innovations, disruptions and trends that could dominate the 2020s. In disbursements, instant payments and solutions are changing rebates, while in...
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1.5KDisrupting Self-Storage With Digital, Mobile Efficiencies
Neighbor.com aims to bring digital and mobile efficiencies to the self-storage industry with an Airbnb-like model. In digital fraud news, new global regulations and solutions are being deployed...
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1.5KDollars To (Dunkin’) Donuts Through Rewards – And AI, Too
Technology offers the benefit of helping QSRs leverage knowledge about their customers’ preferences into stickier relationships. As voice ordering, inventory management and...
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1.3KThe Technical Keys For Unlocking Retail’s Future
The world may not feel like a radically different place than it was 25 years ago – but in terms of what...
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1.7KThe High Cost Of Falling Behind
It’s not easy to stay caught up with the payments and commerce landscape when it seems to make big changes by the...
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1.4KMore Digital Rewards Create Bigger Digital Risks
The era of eCommerce is firmly in place as the second decade of the 21st century winds down, with trillions each year...
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1.6KCreating A More Uniform Pace Of Payments Innovation
While the world is becoming an increasingly digital place by the day, the progress, particularly around payments, is not always uniformly forward. The...
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1.3KBringing The Holdouts Into The Digital Age
While much of the world has gone digital in the last decade, the next decade will be all about bringing the holdout...
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1.8KHow To Make Commerce And Payments Smarter
Grocery shopping is getting much, much smarter as the pace of innovation heats up. So are mundane, often frustrating tasks, such as moving. Meanwhile,...
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1.6KReducing Uncertainty In Retail And Payments
Brexit looms, and issues related to payments and commerce are still getting worked out – though some clarity is emerging. Meanwhile, there...
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1.3KStores Don’t Have To Die – And Marketplaces Can Get Much Better
Healthcare is a giant industry, and may help pump new revenue and life into brick-and-mortar retail. At the same time, online marketplaces are growing up...
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6.6KConnected Vehicles And The Future Of Retail
The future of retail is playing out in multiple places, including the open road, while voice will help capture the connected commerce frontier. In B2B payments, a...
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1.8KConnected Consumers And The Future Of Commerce
Connected devices are contextualizing commerce for consumers as they go about their daily lives, and bridge millennials provide profound insights into the future of connected commerce. In subscriptions, it seems MoviePass has...
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1.3KFor SMBs, Minding The Receivables Gap
Getting paid in a timely manner is more than just a hope for SMBs – it’s a necessity for optimal budgeting, cash...
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1.8KPaying The Non-Compliance Price As SCA Dawns
As detailed in the latest PSD2 Tracker, tomorrow (Sept. 14) is the deadline to comply with SCA, shorthand for strong customer authentication....
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1.0KSatisfying The Hunger For Food Delivery
No one likes to be hangry – that uncomfortable feeling of anger mixed with hunger. It’s a common feeling when you’re left...
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2.1KThe High Cost Of KYC And AML Security Lapses
The regulatory landscape has become stricter – and more expensive – as enterprises and FIs grapple with fraudsters and seek to protect...
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2.8KCross-Border Payments, With Speed And Security In Mind
In payments, complexity reigns, and making payments simple, transparent and speedy is anything but easy. That’s especially true with cross-border payments, where...
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2.7KThe Future Of Fitness With Connected Devices And IoT
Peloton combines its own hardware, software and subscription model in a bid to win over fitness-minded consumers – an effort that could shed light...
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2.5KBringing Biometric Payments To Retail
Amazon is reportedly testing a biometric payment system with a handful of customized vending machines for employee use. In disbursements news, a sizable portion of U.S....
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1.3KKeeping Customers Safe (And Satisfied) With Call Center Innovation
Call centers need to ensure that they provide a robust customer experience via multiple channels, but that need can make the authentication process tricky...
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1.5KDriving Payments Innovation With Invisibility
Innovators in payments and commerce are making what was once visible, invisible – and changing the path to purchase in the process. In compliance...
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1.7KHow Merchants Navigate Tax Collection Complexity With Technology
eCommerce firms are navigating a tax collection environment that increasingly requires technology and automation to ensure compliance. In corporate payments news, Citi is tapping into application programming interface...
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1.7KHow Advances Could Help Gig Workers Receive Early Pay
Pay advances can let workers receive full or partial payments for assigned (but not yet completed) jobs, which could be a compelling innovation for...
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1.5KData And Other Ways To Build Stronger Commerce Experiences
Meanwhile, Mastercard has some ideas about ePayables, an expert offers golden rules on marketplaces and a debit card debuts for kids. Meanwhile,...
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2.0KSpeed, Security And Simplicity: The Three S’s Of Payments Innovation
From the biggest transactions between enterprises to the small weekly allowances doled out weekly by 70 percent of America’s parents, there are...
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1.5KThe Ongoing Game Of Innovation Whack-a-Mole
Solving problems in the digital era is a bit like playing whack-a-mole – no matter how many one hits, a new one...
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2.2KA Digital Solution For Every Problem
There might not be a digital service for every activity under the sun just yet – but even if you can’t find...
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1.8KRising To Meet New Risks That Come With New Opportunities
The scope of the massive digitization projects driving the economy can be hard to contain in a single thought. From easier access...
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1.7KHow Digital Is Transforming Vital Industries In 2019
At the dawn of a new decade, everything from grocery shopping to disaster relief is getting a digital upgrade. And as all...
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1.6KBeyond Everyday Payments And Commerce
It’s exciting times in the digital world. Amazon is trying to make a bigger play for control of connected vehicles, while the...
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1.7KBreaking Payments Stereotypes And Finding New Commerce Avenues
As we mark an historic IPO anniversary, it’s becoming even more clear that mobile commerce stereotypes need to be overcome. Not only...
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3.1KA Few Things About The Internet Of Things
Devices are everywhere – and are now intelligent and interacting with us through all manner of daily routines. There are billions of devices...
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2.1KSigning Onto The Subscription Model
The subscription eCommerce market is big business, growing at 300 percent over the past seven years. In the U.S., subscribers have signed onto...
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1.6KMoving Toward Supplier Onboarding, Done Digitally
Getting onboard with digital onboarding? The numbers, as shown in the Payables Friction Playbook: Old School Manual Versus Digital Onboarding Edition, give...
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1.8KFaster Payments Gone Global
Speedier payments, across the globe – faster and, in some cases, in real time. The Federal Reserve’s plan to launch FedNow may...
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1.6KFor FIs, Giving Corporates Credit (Cards) Where Credit’s Due
In the ever-evolving push by FIs to serve corporate clients, bringing new credit products to market remains a key initiative. As detailed...
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1.8KFinding Shoppers A Home Of Their Own
Given the amount of time the average consumer spends glued to a smartphone, it is not terribly surprising to see the large...
