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Store Front Business Index: Will Main Street USA Profit From A Trump Win?

Store Front Business Index: Will Main Street USA Profit From A Trump Win?
Store Front Business Index: Will Main Street USA Profit From A Trump Win?
December 06, 2016  |  SMBs

As President-Elect Trump has driven stock markets to brand new highs, Main Street might have to wait a bit to see the value. While Store...

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First, Data: Delving Into The Real Deal Of Transactions
First, Data: Delving Into The Real Deal Of Transactions
December 06, 2016  |  Today In Data

Turkey Day has come and gone. Cyber Monday is a memory. Consumer spending was robust through the holiday, as our latest Data Drivers dissects, with Rishi Chhabra,...

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Retailing And eCommerce, Back To The Future
Retailing And eCommerce, Back To The Future
December 05, 2016  |  News

Care to hazard a guess as to where eCommerce and retail may be headed in the year ahead? In our latest Topic TBD installment, Poynt...

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Wayfair: Building For What’s Next In Commerce
Wayfair: Building For What’s Next In Commerce
December 05, 2016  |  Retail

Selling furniture online isn’t easy work — though the team at Boston-based Wayfair might make it appear otherwise. The firm has just come off another quarterly...

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Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital
Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital
December 05, 2016  |  Today In Data

On this day 83 years ago, the United States government pulled the plug on one of the great failures of social engineering in American history...

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Credit, On A Cardholder’s (Flexible) Terms
Credit, On A Cardholder’s (Flexible) Terms
December 02, 2016  |  Mastercard

Mastercard is rolling out a new program that gives cardholders another option for financing their purchases, leveraging their existing credit, debit and commercial cards: installment...

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How Model Validation Helps Credit Scoring Evolve With The Times
How Model Validation Helps Credit Scoring Evolve With The Times
December 02, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

Promoting transparency in credit scores sounds like the ideal, but putting it into action is a whole other story. But as consumer behaviors and lending...

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MPOS Tracker: Qualcomm On What China Can Teach The World About mPOS
MPOS Tracker: Qualcomm On What China Can Teach The World About mPOS
December 02, 2016  |  Point of Sale

When it comes to mobile payments adoption, Chinese consumers are taking the lead. And, that says Sy Choudhury, senior director of product management for Qualcomm,...

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