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ID Experts Light Up Portland
ID Experts Light Up Portland
August 24, 2016  |  Fintech Investments

Investor appetite for fintech start-ups has waned recently while concern for cybersecurity is growing. While PwC reports cybersecurity as the fourth greatest health issue in...

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Know Your Customer Redux
Know Your Customer Redux
August 23, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Know Your Customer takes on a very different meaning at WePay. Kurt Bilafer, WePay Global Vice President, talks about how KYC is the only way...

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How Cashless Vending Is Empowering Consumer Choice
How Cashless Vending Is Empowering Consumer Choice
August 23, 2016  |  Vending Machines

Remember when the dollar bill slot was the biggest advance to hit vending machines? Donna Trego, CEO of 63-year-old Coastal Canteen, says that was then,...

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Have Millennials Sworn Off Credit Cards?
Have Millennials Sworn Off Credit Cards?
August 23, 2016  |  Payment Methods

If the latest data from The New York Fed is correct, credit card use has been exploding in the United States of late — a fact that...

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Full-Service Payments: Does Loyalty Trump Ubiquity?
Full-Service Payments: Does Loyalty Trump Ubiquity?
August 23, 2016  |  Payments As A Service

Blood is thicker than water, and when it comes to full-service payments building customer loyalty may also be more important than creating a ubiquitous payments...

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Full-Service Payments And Keeping Your Friends Close
Full-Service Payments And Keeping Your Friends Close
August 22, 2016  |  Payments As A Service

Blood is thicker than water, and when it comes to full-service payments building customer loyalty may also be more important than creating a ubiquitous payments...

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Bridging The Great Payments Digital/Physical Divide
Bridging The Great Payments Digital/Physical Divide
August 22, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Cash may still be king on the receiver side when it comes to cross-border remittances, but that’s changing. In Friday’s episode of Topic TBD, Karen...

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Partnerships, Pivots And Bookended Data Breaches
Partnerships, Pivots And Bookended Data Breaches
August 21, 2016  |  News

Summer is settling into its declining days, vacations are winding down. In some school districts, kids have even gone back to the school for the...

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The Consumer Electronics Bust And Best Buy’s Coming Fizzle?
The Consumer Electronics Bust And Best Buy’s Coming Fizzle?
August 19, 2016  |  Retail

Yikes. Talk about a Fizzle. What’s up with the Team USA swimming shenanigans in Rio? What had the world aghast last week – the idea...

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