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Walgreens To Incentivize Healthy Living Choices With New Credit Card Rewards Program

Walgreens To Incentivize Healthy Living Choices With New Credit Card Rewards Program
Walgreens To Incentivize Healthy Living Choices With New Credit Card Rewards Program
August 16, 2021  |  Retail

After over 18 months of living through the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers are more aware than ever that “healthcare” goes beyond just an annual doctor’s appointment...

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JPMorgan’s Request For Pay Pilot Sets Stage For Faster Corporate and Consumer Payments
JPMorgan’s Request For Pay Pilot Sets Stage For Faster Corporate and Consumer Payments
August 16, 2021  |  Payment Methods

To get to real-time payments ubiquity across any number of use cases, as Cyrus Bhathawalla, J.P. Morgan Chase managing director and global head of Real-Time...

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Vaccine Mandates Are A Lose-Lose For Frontline Restaurant Workers, Says Paytronix CEO
Vaccine Mandates Are A Lose-Lose For Frontline Restaurant Workers, Says Paytronix CEO
August 16, 2021  |  Economy

For a few months in late spring and early summer, the future was looking bright for restaurants. Newly vaccinated consumers were coming back for indoor...

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Optimism Surrounding UK FinTech Sector Opportunities Masks Risk Of Overinvestment
Optimism Surrounding UK FinTech Sector Opportunities Masks Risk Of Overinvestment
August 16, 2021  |  Investments

Markets are experiencing something similar to what happened in the late 1990s, when the fear of missing out caused investors to pump money into startups,...

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Gupshup Looks To Automation To Remove The Mess From Messaging
Gupshup Looks To Automation To Remove The Mess From Messaging
August 16, 2021  |  Merchant Innovation

For most consumers, a simple scroll through recent texts will reveal just how active and enthusiastic businesses have become in using messaging platforms to communicate...

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Lending Club: Millennials’ Quest For Financial Freedom Hindered By Bad Debt, BNPL
Lending Club: Millennials’ Quest For Financial Freedom Hindered By Bad Debt, BNPL
August 16, 2021  |  Consumer Finance

With new PYMNTS data showing 60 percent of U.S. millennials currently living paycheck to paycheck, it could be argued that this oft-analyzed demographic is badly...

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Two-Thirds Of Consumers Would Cut Ties With Merchants Over A Single Online Fraud Incident
Two-Thirds Of Consumers Would Cut Ties With Merchants Over A Single Online Fraud Incident
August 15, 2021  |  eCommerce

New research shows a zero-tolerance attitude among consumers toward online theft in eCommerce today, with 65 percent or more saying a single incident can lose...

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Sezzle CEO Responds To Square’s BNPL Deal: We’ll Manage All The Ways Consumers Pay
Sezzle CEO Responds To Square’s BNPL Deal: We’ll Manage All The Ways Consumers Pay
August 13, 2021  |  BNPL

Just days after Square’s shock $29 billion acquisition of Afterpay, its Minnesota-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) rival Sezzle said it’s planning to leverage its...

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