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How Self-Service Retail Is Becoming Mainstream Retail

How Self-Service Retail Is Becoming Mainstream Retail
How Self-Service Retail Is Becoming Mainstream Retail
February 06, 2017  |  Unattended Retail

Vending machines aren’t about soda and salty snacks anymore — even if, at the consumer level, that’s what most people think of when they think...

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Making Payments Work For Platforms (Instead Of The Other Way Around)
Making Payments Work For Platforms (Instead Of The Other Way Around)
February 03, 2017  |  eCommerce

As of 2017, platform businesses need payments solutions — they are becoming a less optional part of the business. But turning payments isn’t exactly as easy...

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Facebook Sizzles, Stocks Fizzle And Corporate America Proves We Can Be Friends
Facebook Sizzles, Stocks Fizzle And Corporate America Proves We Can Be Friends
February 03, 2017  |  Exclusive Series

Amid earnings season, it’s tough to keep track of who is up and who is down. The stock market is a scorecard, redone on a...

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Visa Surges On Visa Europe, Strong Cardholder Spend
Visa Surges On Visa Europe, Strong Cardholder Spend
February 03, 2017  |  Earnings

On his first earnings call with investors and analysts, Visa CEO Al Kelly had good news to report. Visa beat Wall Street expectations for both...

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Square And Apple: Who Is The Big Winner Of Their Payments Pair-Up?
Square And Apple: Who Is The Big Winner Of Their Payments Pair-Up?
February 02, 2017  |  Apple

History has a tendency of repeating itself in payments — though luckily, things in this space move fast and attention spans are often fairly short,...

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Plugging Banks’ $500 Billion Hole
Plugging Banks’ $500 Billion Hole
February 02, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Yep. $500 billion is walking out of the doors of banks who just can’t deliver the B2B payments services that their clients want. And, guess...

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YapStone And Making Marketplaces Manageable
YapStone And Making Marketplaces Manageable
February 02, 2017  |  Payment Methods

These days, there is literally an online marketplace for every need. Whether it be workers, office space, rides, vacation homes, food delivery, graphic designers or...

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Yes, Even Algorithms Can Break Bad
Yes, Even Algorithms Can Break Bad
February 01, 2017  |  Financial Inclusion

Math, as it turns out, is doing more than making millions of teenagers unhappy over hard homework right now — it’s also making the world...

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