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Payday Lending Laws Drive Traffic To Pawn Shops

Payday Lending Laws Drive Traffic To Pawn Shops
Payday Lending Laws Drive Traffic To Pawn Shops
October 04, 2019  |  Alternative Credit

While short-term lending in general has a pretty rough reputation, the pawn loan is the most ill-regarded arena in an already unloved category of consumer lending. By...

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ClassPass CEO: How Digital Platforms Have Innovated Health, Fitness
ClassPass CEO: How Digital Platforms Have Innovated Health, Fitness
October 04, 2019  |  Merchant Innovation

Consumers are creatures of habit — but those habits can be complex, and can certainly vary according to such factors as geography, age and even...

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How Apple Card Brings ‘Existential Crisis’ To Smaller FIs
How Apple Card Brings ‘Existential Crisis’ To Smaller FIs
October 04, 2019  |  Banking

Apple Card is the tech giants shot across the bow at banks.  Rachna Ahlawat, co-founder and executive vice president of Ondot Systems, tells Karen Webster...

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What’s The Best Way To Navigate The New World Of Payments?
What’s The Best Way To Navigate The New World Of Payments?
October 04, 2019  |  Partnerships

These are indeed the days for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world of payments, and that trend looks likely to hold into the 2020s....

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The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture
The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture
October 04, 2019  |  Business

We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us...

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Data Points To US Consumer Spending Slowdown
Data Points To US Consumer Spending Slowdown
October 03, 2019  |  Economy

Consider the stock market free fall a bit of a lagging indicator — one that seems to be playing catch-up to the U.S. economy’s slowing...

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Smart Home Wars Heat Up — Will Apple Catch Up?
Smart Home Wars Heat Up — Will Apple Catch Up?
October 03, 2019  |  Innovation

The long-term battle for payments and commerce supremacy is hitting close to home — literally. And that battle is increasingly involving the heaviest of heavyweights in...

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Creating The Consumer Connection In The Clean Beauty Market
Creating The Consumer Connection In The Clean Beauty Market
October 03, 2019  |  Retail

Skincare is a big global business — worldwide, consumers spent $135 billion on skincare products in 2018, a 60 percent increase over what consumers were spending even...

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