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Trigger Looks To Bring Hedge Fund Tools To Everyday Investors
Trigger Looks To Bring Hedge Fund Tools To Everyday Investors
June 20, 2016  |  Investments

Making it easy for the as-yet-uninitiated investor to jump into the market — or perhaps, more accurately, wade in slowly — has been a focus...

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PYMNTS’ Data Dive: Strange Bedfellows Edition — Card Networks, EMV And Retail
PYMNTS’ Data Dive: Strange Bedfellows Edition — Card Networks, EMV And Retail
June 19, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Times laden with change are said to make for strange bedfellows — something the weekly cavalcade of unusual pair-ups we cover day in and day...

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: EMV, Apple, Birchbox (And Why Being First Isn’t The Same As Winning)
Sizzle Or Fizzle: EMV, Apple, Birchbox (And Why Being First Isn’t The Same As Winning)
June 17, 2016  |  Retail

It was an alphabet soup of sizzle/fizzle this week: EMV, WWDC, PLCC, CCI, and SFBI all rocked the payments and commerce world one way or...

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Jukeboxes Take Digital For A Dance
Jukeboxes Take Digital For A Dance
June 16, 2016  |  Omnicommerce

From a coin-operated box to mobile in-app payments – the way we pay-and-play at jukeboxes has changed drastically over the last century. Ron Richards, CTO...

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Should Retailers Just Say ‘No’ To Digital Gift Cards?
Should Retailers Just Say ‘No’ To Digital Gift Cards?
June 16, 2016  |  Security & Fraud

Gift cards seem like a win-win payment option for retailers. But as traditional gift cards are slowly being phased out for digital replacements, that story...

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Unicorns Still Toeing (Hoofing) The IPO Line
Unicorns Still Toeing (Hoofing) The IPO Line
June 16, 2016  |  Investments

Still a dearth of tech IPOs this year, making our unicorns skittish about public debuts. Plus, a new U.S. unicorn entrant makes a bow. And...

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