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Apocalypse Not: Brick-And-Mortar Retail Is Neither Dead Nor Dying
Apocalypse Not: Brick-And-Mortar Retail Is Neither Dead Nor Dying
February 06, 2018  |  Retail

Frozen food didn’t kill the restaurant. Telephones didn’t kill human interaction. And eCommerce won’t kill brick-and-mortar retail. That’s L Brands CEO and Chairman Les Wexner’s...

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The Digital Secret To Storefront ‘Surprise And Delight’
The Digital Secret To Storefront ‘Surprise And Delight’
February 02, 2018  |  Omnicommerce

Brick-and-mortar retailers have an opportunity to surprise and delight shoppers with digital, connected and omnichannel experiences in the physical store, but many are struggling to...

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Go Fish: In The (Data) Stream — And Not The (Data) Lake
Go Fish: In The (Data) Stream — And Not The (Data) Lake
January 26, 2018  |  Big Data

Data is everywhere. Data is not static. Fraudsters are everywhere, and they are never static, never at rest. Taking data in and making decisions —...

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The Need/Convenience Credit Card Paradox
The Need/Convenience Credit Card Paradox
January 25, 2018  |  Consumer Finance

Life happens, as the saying goes. When life happens, though, all sorts of things also happen to financial visibility — including the ability to see...

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Vocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
Vocalink CEO On Making Payments Faster, Sooner
January 24, 2018  |  Banking

Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together new and existing rails, melding legacy systems with new layers of...

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Can Curve Make Smart Cards Work Where Others Have Failed?
Can Curve Make Smart Cards Work Where Others Have Failed?
January 19, 2018  |  Payment Methods

There have been a lot of smart card products announced over the last few years — Plastc, Coin, Stratos — that have generated a lot of buzz,...

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“AML Solutions Are Still Stuck In The Middle Ages”
“AML Solutions Are Still Stuck In The Middle Ages”
January 17, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

  AML. Switch the acronym a bit. Let’s try “LMA”: Here we could say it stands for “Laggard from the Middle Ages.” The first acronym,...

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Can Crypto Change The Music Industry?
Can Crypto Change The Music Industry?
January 16, 2018  |  Retail

Musicians have a complicated relationship with monetizing their art. They create the songs, but the record labels that distribute them tend to own the song...

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LATAM Banks Embrace Platforms As A Service
LATAM Banks Embrace Platforms As A Service
January 09, 2018  |  International

As quickly as financial services are evolving in the U.S., the U.K. and other more advanced economies, things are just heating up in other parts...

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