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1.1KRetailWalmart Plans AI Retail Lab For NY Store
Walmart plans to bring an Intelligent Retail Lab to a Levittown, New York, store to experiment with customer and associate experiences. The...
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1.5KSecurity & FraudHow Neiman Marcus Safeguards Purchases When Sales Surge
Cyberattacks targeting retailers have more than doubled in the last year, leading merchants to invest in AI and machine learning to protect...
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3.0KSecurity & FraudTRENDING: Neiman Marcus On Why AI Isn’t Enough To Outsmart Cybercriminals
For retailers, the holiday season is both a busy and profitable time, but it’s also when cybercriminals seize the opportunity and target...
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2.9KArtificial IntelligenceNEW REPORT: Buzz Vs Reality — Measuring The AI Gap In Payments And Banking
“Artificial intelligence” (AI) may be a financial industry buzzword, but how many banks actually use it? The truth is that AI is...
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2.1KInvestmentsJD.com’s Q2 Tech Investments Jump 70 Percent Year Over Year
China’s JD.com’s quest to expand into technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation is causing its expenses to soar, with the company...
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4.3KDataThe $5B Midterm Elections And The Big Costs Of Big Data
Politics is not our normal beat here at PYMNTS. But the 2018 midterms has changed our thinking, and for one reason: 2018 will...
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1.6KRetailAlbertsons Turns To AI Tech For Grocery Orders
To assemble baskets of products for delivery orders, Albertsons is teaming up with Takeoff Technologies for a trial partnership. Through the arrangement,...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsOakNorth: How AI Can Fuel Banks’ Return To SMB Lending
Small businesses (SMBs) left behind by their banks, thanks to tightening risk and capital requirements post-financial crisis, certainly left a gap in...
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2.2KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Brussel’s NXMH Acquires Bitstamp Exchange; Ripple Hires Ex-Google Product Specialist
MediXserve is working with the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in an effort to make the first blockchain research and...
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2.3KDigital BankingWhy Context Makes Virtual Assistants Smart Digital Bankers
AI and ML-powered services can help fight banking fraud. However, to layer the tech into viable solutions to assist customers with banking,...
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3.0KFraud PreventionMapping Fraud’s DNA
Payments and commerce fraud has its own ecosystem, one that includes criminals, servers and other computing devices, IP addresses, compromised payment cards...
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1.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsShopping App Spring Acquired By Compass, ShopRunner
Shopping app Spring has been acquired by two companies: real estate startup Compass and Alibaba-backed shopping app Shoprunner. According to TechCrunch, Compass...
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2.5KRetailHow AI Is Helping Hotel Apps Get Onto Travelers’ Radar Screens
With the help of travel experts, hotels can tap into a new channel to drive online bookings: Travelers can be inspired to...
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2.5KAmazonAmazon Roundup: Making Moves In Rx, Grocery
It almost seems like a myth at this point, some tale that grandparents will tell their grandchildren. They will listen to this...
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2.6KArtificial IntelligenceTD Ameritrade Enables Voice Trading Via Alexa
TD Ameritrade, the Omaha, Nebraska online brokerage, announced Wednesday (Oct. 24) that it has enhanced its Alexa skill, enabling customers to place...
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3.7KInnovationAdobe Doubles Down On Voice Interfaces
At its annual MAX conference in Los Angeles last week, Adobe had all sorts of things to announce. After a (very) long...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsChallenger FinTech Firms Can’t Rely On Tech Offerings Alone: ANNA
U.K. alternative financial service (FinServ) players promising a small business (SMB) banking revolution — and a challenge to the status quo established...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsIBM And The Blockchain Bet
Investors may have focused mainly on the headline numbers, where IBM missed top-line expectations. Management sounded sanguine on the earnings call about...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsLevaData Eyes Procurement’s Slow March Toward Data Analytics
Enterprise digitization is beginning to see a troubling trend. While executives may understand the importance of key technologies like data analytics, artificial...
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3.2KAuthenticationSolving Digital ID Verification’s ‘Existential Crisis’
There's a tug of war when it comes to digital ID verification — a tug of war between the customer experience and...
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3.3KArtificial IntelligenceKirk Bresniker On Why Naivete Is Key To Tapping Into AI’s Potential
An increasingly non-controversial point is that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been — and will continue to be —...
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3.6KDigital BankingHow FIs Are Combating Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
As cybercriminals ramp up their attacks, a growing number of FIs are turning to AI and machine learning to protect customers and...
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2.7KMobile5G Retail Possibilities Expand As Mobile Tech Gets Ready To Roll
This is not one of those annoying algebra problems, we promise. But imagine two long trains, those massive mechanical snakes, each of...
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2.4KArtificial IntelligenceAmazon Alexa’s Ability To Whisper Is Now Live In The U.S.
A couple of weeks after teasing Amazon Alexa’s ability to whisper back to voice commands, the feature is now live. According to...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsAFP ‘Troubled’ Over Corporate Treasurers’ Lack Of FinTech Adoption
Corporate treasurers have said they’re interested in a slew of cutting-edge FinTech solutions that experts believe will disrupt financial business management. Yet,...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsDMG Blockchain Targets Cannabis Supply Chain Traceability
Blockchain company DMG Blockchain Solutions is rolling out a new supply chain management solution designed for the legal cannabis market. The company...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsIntuit Eyes AI To Keep High-Growth Businesses On QuickBooks
Intuit is introducing a new solution for businesses that deploys data aggregated from QuickBooks to provide enhanced analytics and insights for its...
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2.6KStartup Check-InTaking On Card Declines With Interoperability
Merchants are facing a sizable number of card declines, which are stubbornly averaging at around 15 percent. That challenge is not lost...
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2.0KNewsFive At Five: Apple Slumps In China
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes a new smartphone forecast...
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2.0KInvestmentsMIT’s New AI School Gets $1B Investment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), aiming to take a lead in educating on artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced computing, is creating...
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3.7KArtificial IntelligenceIt’s Not Smart Tech If It’s Foolish
When English mountaineer George Mallory was asked in 1923 by The New York Times why he wanted to attempt to climb Mount Everest...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsSievo Calls On Procurement To Broaden Analytics Horizons
They say “you’re biggest competitor is yourself.” In corporate finance, though, it may not pay to look at financial performance in isolated...
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4.7KSecurity & FraudWhy Bank Security Is About More Than Preventing Attacks
Nick Shevelyov, chief security officer at Silicon Valley Bank, says FIs can no longer expect, or hope, to stop every incoming cyberattack...
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3.5KCredit UnionsPSCU CEO: The Quiet Power Of Credit Unions’ 100M-Member Network
Credit unions can be easy to overlook and underestimate — individually, they generally don’t have a massive amount of assets, their membership...
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4.7KSecurity & FraudTRENDING: Why Preventing Bank Cyberattacks Is Only Half The Omni Security Battle
Cyberattacks on banks have become seemingly inevitable, with banks and financial institutions (FIs) at risk of losing as much as $100 billion...
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4.7KSecurity & FraudBrighterion CEO: Why It’s Time To Break The AML Fraud Prevention Tech Rules
There is much to be shocked by in the unfolding Danske Bank money laundering scandal, such as the simple amount laundered through...
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3.4KSecurity & FraudFake IDs And Fraud’s Other Face
Among the many plots and ploys, fraudsters fake IDs. They make off with ill-gotten gains, hurting firms and consumers alike — and...
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3.5KMobileAs The Dawn Of 5G Nears, Will It Be All That?
5G is coming. Now if we can just figure out what it’s good for. That’s a little bit unfair, but it does...
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1.9KGoogleGoogle Assistant Can Now Book Users An Uber, Lyft Ride
Google Assistant can now help users book a car from Uber, Lyft, Ola, Grab, GO-JEK and other ridesharing services. The feature, which...
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2.9KEcosystemsThe Quickly And Quietly Growing World Of Voice-Assisted Health And Wellness
For most people, absently swiping through an Instagram feed, or flipping a light switch, or going to a doctor’s office don’t register...
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3.0KFacebookFacebook Marketplace Goes AI
Facebook’s Marketplace has gotten some new features on its two-year anniversary, with the enhancements being powered by artificial intelligence. According to a...
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2.8KGoogleGoogle Buys Customer Service Automation Startup
Google has acquired customer service automation startup Onward for an undisclosed sum. According to reports, Onward Co-founders Rémi Cossart and Pramod Thammaiah,...
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3.5KFraud PreventionWhy Machines Need Humans To Beat Online Fraud
Fraudsters are nothing if not actors. Some of them are quite good, perhaps even worthy of an Oscar (or at least a...
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1.7KBankingTech’s Greatest Impact: Money Management
TD Ameritrade’s new research report, “The Tech Effect: How the Digital Age is Changing Investing,” surveyed 1,000 U.S. investors between the ages...
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3.4KSecurity & FraudVocalink On The Grim Facts Behind Financial Crime’s $1.4T Toll
Halloween comes early this year as we delve into a slew of grisly facts about financial crime in our latest Data Drivers....
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3.2KB2B PaymentsPersonetics Explores How To Make AI Banking Work For The Bank
As financial institutions (FIs) invest in technology in an effort to position themselves more competitively against FinTech firms, the development of so-called...
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3.0KDigital BankingIn Fight Against Human Trafficking, FIs Turn To AI
Seemingly legit businesses are often used to mask illicit operations banking on human trafficking, sometimes leading FIs to unwittingly support the practice....
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3.1KInvestments
Fidelity Aims To Be Leader In AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning
Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based fund company, is becoming a leader in blockchain technology, investing billions of dollars on that and other cutting-edge...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsPersonetics Launches AI Portal To Boost Bank Loyalty
Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider Personetics is rolling out a new solution for financial institutions (FIs) that the company said could support...
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3.2KSecurity & FraudDeep Dive: How Retailers Guard Against Cyberattacks
PYMNTS explores the forces threatening consumer trust in this month’s Digital Identity Tracker™ Deep Dive, including how companies protect themselves while boosting...
