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77Today 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...
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968Today In Data: Big Changes In Unexpected Places
Change can be disorienting, particularly when it comes at a fast pace. It’s why the news that 44 million Americans owe over $1 trillion in...
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1.6KToday In Data: Digitization As A Path To Inclusion
When the “next big thing” seems to be rolling out every 30 seconds or so, it can be easy to miss the...
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1.5KToday In Data: Providers Push For Enhanced mPOS Features
Financial technology providers are partnering up to offer expanded mPOS capabilities to merchants, which are looking for tools to avoid long checkout...
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1.3KToday In Data: Retailers See Strong Start To The Holidays
Merchants experienced a strong start to the holiday season, with retail spend growth up 7.5 percent on a year-over-year basis over Thanksgiving...
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1.6KToday In Data: Banks Give Consumers Confidence Amid Data Breaches
Banks give consumers confidence that their data won’t fall into the wrong hands when they make purchases or reservations, thanks to investments...
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2.3KToday In Data: The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (For Cybercrime)
A tidal wave of consumers hit the stores (online and real world) for the kick-off weekend of the holiday shopping season, trying...
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2.7KToday In Data: Keeping Current In An Always-Connected, On-Demand Ecosystem
The world may not feel like a radically different place than it was at the turn of the last century – but...
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1.6KToday In Data: Capitalizing On The Connected Future
From speakers to cars to video game consoles, it feels like every device is becoming a connected device. The opportunities that come...
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1.8KToday In Data: Striking A Balance Between Convenience And Security
Keeping consumers happy enough to make them loyal customers is no easy task, particularly as the list of things they are looking...
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1.7KToday In Data: The Payments And Commerce Rapid Reset
The world going into holiday 2018 is a very different place than it was even a year ago – though the changes...
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2.3KToday In Data: The Rise Of Call Center Fraud
Call centers are facing the potential of fraud from inside and outside their facilities, and they are taking multi-pronged approaches to tackle these security...
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4.2KToday In Data: Finding The Right Incentive For The User
While giving the customer what they want is always advisable, knowing exactly what it is can be challenging, as needs depend greatly on...
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1.9KToday In Data: Keeping Constantly Wooed Consumers Loyal
It’s not an easy thing to build a loyal customer base, and keep it that way. Just ask the team at Walmart,...
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2.1KToday In Data: Managing Data’s New Normal
One out of every 10 Starbucks orders goes through its mobile app – and though Starbucks is more successful than your average...
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2.5KToday In Data: The ‘More Is More’ Environment
When it comes to interior design or spicing your Thanksgiving turkey, there is something to be said for a “less is more”...
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3.8KToday In Data: Minding And Filling The Payments Gaps
Increasingly everything is online these days, up to and including consumer identity. That means many things are changing for the better: Checks,...
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2.0KToday In Data: All Digital, All The Time, Everywhere
The fact that things are going digital isn’t shocking or even news – it has seemingly been the drift of things for...
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1.9KHelping The Rising Tide Lift All Boats
There is plenty of good news in the U.S. economy, with low unemployment and high consumer confidence topping the list. But while...
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2.5KToday In Data: Fighting The Many Flavors Of Friction
If one had to take digitization and sum it up under a single goal, fighting friction would probably be as good a...
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1.6KToday In Data: What The Start Of The ‘Smart’ World Means
There is no shortage of things in the world claiming to be “smart,” though what that actually means varies in context. It...
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1.9KToday In Data: The Rise Of Faster Payment Systems
Businesses are able to deliver funds to buyers, sellers, employees and suppliers quicker than ever before with the rise of faster payment...
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1.5KToday In Data: The Rapid Growth Of Real-Time Payments
New technologies are enabling consumers and business to experience faster payments than ever before: While only 25 real-time payment systems were operational worldwide last...
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1.8KToday In Data: The Evolving Face Of What’s Next In Mobile
It’s been an up and down week on the stock market as earnings reports have piled in and investors have like, or...
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2.2KToday In Data: Building A Better – Paper-Free – B2B Payments World
Though rapidly going extinct in consumer transactions, the check is alive and quite well in the B2B space. Not because anyone is especially...
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1.8KToday In Data: Try Before You Buy With Augmented Reality
New technologies are enabling consumers to experience products in new ways before they purchase them: Lowe’s, for instance, is looking to use...
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1.4KToday In Data: There’s No Time Like Real Time
Faster is the preferred speed in most contexts these days. Businesses actively hope for faster payments, and the variety of cash flow management options...
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1.5KToday In Data: Figuring Out The New Fundamentals
Today’s conventional wisdom has a way of becoming tomorrow’s outdated – or nearly invisible – idea. In recent memory, the CW was...
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3.4KToday In Data: Digital’s Growing New Frontiers
It might not have been a great week in the stock market for tech or retail firms, but by the numbers, there’s...
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2.0KToday In Data: Jumping On A Fast-Moving Digital Payments Train
While cash is unlikely to ever disappear, the digitization of money is proceeding rapidly – and even arguably picking up speed. That’s...
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5.0KToday In Data: A Whole New Connected World
In what feels like the blink of any eye, the Internet of Things has gone beyond smart speakers and a handful of wearables on...
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2.8KToday In Data: The Hidden Costs Of Digitization
That the world is going online rapidly no longer qualifies as headline news: New internet users grew by 248 million last year, and...
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2.2KToday In Data: Voice Payments Innovation
New technologies bring new ways for consumers to buy and pay for goods and services, such as using voice-activated devices to order groceries, takeout,...
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2.4KToday In Data: Driving A Digitally Determined World
In an average week, the average consumer spends about 24 hours online – exactly 1/7 of their time. They use their phones...
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2.1KToday In Data: Finding And Minding The Digital Gaps
The world is changing – in some ways highly reported, in others less so. Millennials are credited as the digital generation, leaving their...
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2.0KToday In Data: Digital Solutions To Inefficient Problems
The world is full of inefficiencies, some more grating than others – such as B2B transactions’ ongoing reliance on paper for payments to the...
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2.1KToday In Data: Digital Retail Innovation
New technologies bring new opportunities to serve consumers, and retailers are offering their customers more digital options than ever to meet their...
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2.3KToday In Data: Why Convenience Is King In The Digital Age
While pricing is the battleground retailers often prefer to fight on, the race to the bottom isn’t really the way to consumers’...
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2.0KToday In Data: Offering Innovations In Risk-Rich Environments
Where there are underserved consumers looking to enter the digital ecosystem, there are innovators big (and, in some cases, very big) and small looking to...
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2.2KToday In Data: Digital Banking Cybersecurity
With new risks come new solutions, and banks are taking this approach to data security: They are adopting technologies such as biometric authentication to...
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2.1KToday In Data: Building A Better Self-Service World
Consumers, as it turns out, like to be able to do for themselves whenever easily possible. Online or in the real world,...
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1.2KToday In Data: The Three R’s of Payments – Risks, Rewards And Real Time
While children are sitting in schools studying the “real” three Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic), payments peeps will be looking at the...
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2.3KToday In Data: Writing New Rules For New Risks
The world is a rapidly changing place for payments – consumer payments, B2B payments, cross-border payments. We are very much not in Kansas...
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1.8KToday In Data: Keeping Hold Of The Slippery Digital Consumer
The good news about modern digital customers, particularly younger ones, is their consistent willingness to try new things, such as new stores and new...
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1.9KBuilding Out The Digital Workforce
Freelance work is as old as work itself, but the more recent emergence of the digital marketplace dedicated to “gig work” has...
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1.9KToday in Data: Bridging The Digital Payments Divide, Carefully
There is much evidence to suggest that the only acceptable pace for digitization in payments and commerce is faster. Disbursements, wherever one may find...
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2.1KToday In Data: New Faster Payments Normal
Faster payments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly becoming the norm. Consumers and business want it and there is money to...
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5.4KToday In Data: Separating The Hope From The Hype In Payments
Hype is, and always has been, part and parcel to the world of tech. After all, almost no one bills their own...
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3.1KToday In Data: Driving Commerce By Giving Customers What They Really Want
Consumers have historically needed a bit of prodding to get them into a mobile state of mind when it comes to payments....
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2.1KToday In Data: Innovating Food Retail With Innovative Payments
One’s first thought at the word “Walmart” might not be “blockchain enthusiasts,” even though these days it would not be an inaccurate...
