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End-Of-Summer Edition: Malware Goes Retro, Bitcoin Splits And Apple Watch Breaks Free
End-Of-Summer Edition: Malware Goes Retro, Bitcoin Splits And Apple Watch Breaks Free
August 21, 2017  |  Data Dive

This week, Americans will have something of a rare opportunity in the digital age: The chance to all do the same thing at once. That same...

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US Consumer Debt — Ten Years Later
US Consumer Debt — Ten Years Later
August 18, 2017  |  Debt

The economic world before the Great Recession and the world ten years hence are similar-looking — but in many ways fundamentally different — places.  And...

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Credit Cards Sizzle, Debt Fizzles And Alibaba Crushes Earnings
Credit Cards Sizzle, Debt Fizzles And Alibaba Crushes Earnings
August 18, 2017  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

It’s Friday, which can only mean one thing — time to see what Sizzled and what Fizzled this week. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Walmart Online Sales Explode
Walmart Online Sales Explode
August 18, 2017  |  Earnings

Investors aren’t an easy bunch to please these days, especially investors with retail holdings who’ve had a rough go of things lately. Get the Full...

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Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing
Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing
August 18, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Retailers are retailers, not security experts. Too often, their best efforts can create friction at the point of sale for consumers, which leads to shopping...

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Open Banking, Open APIs, Wide Open Opportunities?
Open Banking, Open APIs, Wide Open Opportunities?
August 17, 2017  |  Banking

Europe has mandates in place for open API adoption (perhaps you’ve heard of PSD2)? Here in the States, the playing field is taking shape, but in...

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Honeyfi: Love — And Better Budgeting — Can Keep Millennials Together
Honeyfi: Love — And Better Budgeting — Can Keep Millennials Together
August 17, 2017  |  Mobile Applications

Money, as most people well know, cannot actually buy love or happiness. This fact, of course, breaks our hearts as payments experts — as we prefer everything in...

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Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
August 17, 2017  |  Payment Methods

It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry in which technology...

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Urban FT Makes Bid For Troubled Online Bank Digiliti
Urban FT Makes Bid For Troubled Online Bank Digiliti
August 16, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Urban FT has launched a bid for struggling mobile money firm Digiliti. To get a sense of the strategy behind the deal, Karen Webster got an exclusive first look...

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