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7.7KRetailMoving C-Stores From A Fuel-Plus To A Plus-Fuel Model
Convenience stores (C-stores), overall, are in an innovation rut. While there are some larger chains that have made great leaps and bounds into...
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4.6KRegulationFacebook Looks To Government For More Regulation
If you can’t beat em…join ‘em? Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg pushes for more government regulation of the internet – and cites GDPR as...
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12.6KPayment MethodsVisa Gives Businesses New Way To Pay Gig Workers In Real Time
The gig economy is growing. The desire to get paid faster is also gaining traction — along with the companies satisfying that desire....
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6.2KInnovationWhy Does The Path To Retail Innovation Go Through So Many Labs?
It’s not enough to be a retailer these days, not if a merchant intends to survive in a world of commerce dominated...
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4.5KEarningsWalgreens Slammed On Earnings Miss As Drug Prices Weigh
Amid a competitive landscape that is intensifying along with margin pressures, drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. missed earnings estimates for the...
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10.1KRetailTravel Startups Take A Personalized Approach To Airport Pickups
Travel companies often tackle the odyssey from home to destination and back, but Welcome Pickups is taking a different approach. The Greece-based...
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4.5KRetailHeyday’s Digital And Physical Reformation Of The Facial
The concept for Heyday, a New York-based startup aiming to bring facials to the masses, was dreamt up by Co-Founder and CEO...
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6.3KB2B PaymentsB2B FinTech Tackles The Nuanced Challenges Of Marijuana — Beyond Banking
The legal cannabis market continues to reach new milestones, the latest being the launch of the industry’s first commodity trading desk —...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsCorporate Spend Culture Shows The Limits Of Data Analytics
Spend control isn’t easy — just ask Google and Facebook, which confirmed in 2017 they were among the corporate victims of a...
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5.2KRegulationCrypto Regulations Move Into The Spotlight
Recent headlines have been dominated by payday lending rules and Wells Fargo. But there have been a few other trends taking shape,...
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6.5KPayment MethodsWorld Bank Sees DLT Potential For Cross-Border Transactions
The jockeying for cross border-payments continues, and SWIFT and Ripple continue to dominate the headlines. At heart of the matter, of course,...
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4.4KData DiveData Dive, Spring Blooms Edition: Apple, Citi And Square
April has arrived, and once we’ve sorted out the various pranks, we can all take a minute to appreciate that winter is...
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3.6KRetailNécessaire And Full-Body Skincare
There are a lot of brands new and old that want to take care of the consumer’s skin. The world is full...
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4.8KRetailDTC Brands Fill Pricing Gap In Outdoor Furniture Market
Some of the minds behind direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are inspired by their personal experiences. Yardbird Co-founder Jay Dillon, for instance, was shopping...
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6.9KB2B PaymentsThe Uber-ization Impact Of Supply Chain Finance
FinTech has revolutionized the way traditional banks can implement and roll out new products and services to their customers, with banks’ complex infrastructures...
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9.5KSecurity & FraudWhy Hello Kitty Has A Credit File
Synthetic ID fraud costs banks $2 billion a year. The bad guys are so crafty that the credit bureaus are unwitting accomplices...
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6.5KCredit UnionsFor Credit Unions: Trust, But Innovate
In some ways, the average credit union customer is very much like the average customer of any financial institution. They want to...
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14.9KEcosystemsWhy Me-Too Services Can’t Save Apple
Three years ago, I wrote a piece in which I said Apple had become the kind of company that Steve Jobs once...
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7.1KRetailPutting A Famous Face To A Product
Celebrity-backed brands are nothing new. As PYMNTS has previously reported, the original celebrity-endorsed products date back as the far as the 1760s, when the...
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6.4KInnovationWant To Build A Retail Experience? Get An Incubator
You’ve probably gotten the memo already, but in case you missed the message, here you go: Mere retail is boring. Mere retail...
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5.3KSizzle/FizzleSizzle Fizzle: Lyft’s Liftoff Sizzles
IPOs are everywhere, it seems, but Lyft may be a special case. Yes, Levi Strauss was a star earlier in the month,...
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5.5KDigital PaymentsWhy ‘Play Ball!’ Means So Much For Payments
Another baseball season has started, much to the delight of many consumers, including those insufferable and pretentious fans who consider football something...
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5.0KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: March Madness Edition
As this goes to press (so to speak), the annual NCAA March Madness tournament is rounding off the Sweet-16 round. There’s been...
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4.6KRetailHow Ship Wants To Make Digital Dating A Group Activity
Dating, but for a limited number of very progressive people, is generally not considered a team sport. It’s pretty much always a...
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5.0KRetailApple Pay’s Broadway Debut
Ticketing platforms for Broadway shows and other theatrical productions have long sought to reduce friction at checkout for their customers. TodayTix, for...
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3.5KLegalRobocalls Go Unpunished, Exposing Regulatory Gaps
For foes of robocalls, there came a bit of poetic justice in recent weeks, courtesy of John Oliver, host of the weekly...
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6.6KB2B PaymentsPOS Financing Makes Its Way Into B2B eCommerce
Point-of-sale financing is quickly becoming an attractive feature for consumers shopping online and in-store. Retail giants like Walmart are working with FinTechs to...
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7.2KEcosystemsAlabama Debuts Smart Utility Payments Program
It started, arguably, with mass transit, though with many bumps along the way, as the problems are slowly being solved while still...
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6.3KCryptocurrencyWells Fargo And Mastercard On Blockchain: Oversold?
Along any avenue of technology, there is hope … and there is hype … and then there is reality. Blockchain has long...
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4.4KRetailRetail Puts On Its Own Show At Coachella
Summer is coming, and that means more than just baseball (happy Opening Day!). It also means big outdoor music festivals – and...
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4.1KRetailKiosks Flourish In International Markets
Kiosks are gaining more power in retail, especially as it becomes ever more obvious that consumers are not quite ready to cut...
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3.7KRetailFashionPass And Wardrobe Rentals Tailored To Influencers
With the successful launch of Rent the Runway in 2009, there have been many variations of fashion-on-demand rental services. Le Tote and...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsWhy Early Payment Discount Programs Fail To Take Off
When American Express launched its early payment solution for B2B customers last October, it was not only an effort to strengthen its...
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5.7KSMBsUsing Credit To Close The SMB ‘Funding Gap’
FinTech Fundbox said on Thursday (March 28) that it is expanding its partnership with Synchrony, the consumer financial services company, to make...
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7.5KDigital OnboardingHow Freelancer.com Filters Fraudsters From Freelancers
As major rideshare companies compete for even greater shares of the market, they’re placing a heavy focus on fine-tuning onboarding processes. Making...
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9.0KArtificial IntelligenceCan AI Turn Banks Into FinTech Firms?
There are no incumbent banks that are not paying attention to what the challenger banks are doing. What might have been written off even five years...
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5.8KCredit UnionsWhy Credit Unions Crush Loyalty
If there’s one lesson that credit union (CU) members took away from the 35-day government shutdown earlier this year, it’s that cooperative...
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4.4KIPOA Tale Of Two IPOs
Part of the breathless anticipation over initial public offerings (IPOs) ties into seeing how they will perform right out of the gate....
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5.2KInnovationGoogle Wants To Bring More Learning To Robots
Make it about machine learning – that seems to be a theme behind Google’s return to robotics, an effort that reportedly has...
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4.4KRetailWhy Grayson Is Trying Fashion’s First-Ever DTC-Wholesale Hybrid
A good button-down shirt can be hard to find. A classic for well over a century among female shoppers, the versatile, desirable...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsFor Suppliers, Buyer Risk Goes Beyond Late Payments
Late payments may dominate the headlines as the biggest worry for suppliers — especially smaller vendors. But lengthy payment terms and missed invoice...
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7.3KB2B PaymentsHow Banks Can Turn Compliance Burden Into A Data Opportunity
While regulators had transparency and financial security in mind when introducing more stringent requirements for banks following the global financial crisis, financial...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsVoters Want Big Tech Regulation On The Hill, Says Study
Much has been said about how Europe is shaping up to be ground zero for seismic changes in Big Tech, as regulators...
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8.7KAPIInside HSBC’s PSD2-Ready API Portal
In the ever-evolving financial ecosystem, financial institutions (FIs) and other payment players must continually revise their application program interface (API) approaches....
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7.3KSecurity & FraudFor Online Gambling, The Real Action Is In Authentication
As online gamblers all but feast on the odds and brackets of the ongoing NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in the U.S. – the first...
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9.4KDigital PaymentsIs P2P A (Good) Trojan Horse For Banks?
In mythology, the Trojan Horse is a symbol of hidden intent — a gift hiding warriors ready to slash and burn. In...
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8.1KPayments InnovationHow Lime Is Using Payments To Win The Global Scooter Race
Trust keeps the sharing economy afloat. It’s what makes sellers feel comfortable with lending their personal properties to buyers whom they have...
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5.9KAlternative FinancesBuilding A Better On-Ramp For Credit Repair
Self Lender Founder James Garvey never thought he would go into financial services, and certainly never thought financial inclusion would become a...
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5.9KInnovationQSRs Get Smarter With The Help Of AI
Back in the day fast food and other QSR operations were not exactly known as centers of cutting-edge technology. Now QSR operations...
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14.9KRetailVoice Technology Makes (Sound) Waves At QSRs
Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. Bensen AI...
