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New Year, New Purpose Sees Credit Unions Pick Up Pace of Innovation
New Year, New Purpose Sees Credit Unions Pick Up Pace of Innovation
January 07, 2022  |  Credit Unions

It’s tough to boil down a massive, 12-month-long digital pivot that transformed the credit union (CU) landscape into one word. Get the Full Story Complete...

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ACI: 2021 was the Year of the 3Cs
ACI: 2021 was the Year of the 3Cs
January 07, 2022  |  Opinion

In a year defined by the COVID pandemic, two other Cs also moved to the forefront of consumers’ minds in 2021: convenient and contactless. Debbie...

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Twitter Users to Airbnb CEO: Accepting Crypto Payments Would Be Awesome
Twitter Users to Airbnb CEO: Accepting Crypto Payments Would Be Awesome
January 06, 2022  |  Payment Methods

When Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky asked Twitter, “If Airbnb could launch anything in 2022, what would it be?” a few days ago, he probably wasn’t...

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100% of Top-Performing Online Merchants Offer Product Ratings and Live Site Help
100% of Top-Performing Online Merchants Offer Product Ratings and Live Site Help
January 06, 2022  |  eCommerce

Features that give consumers more control over their online shopping experience boost customer satisfaction, and merchants are giving shoppers more control by providing features that...

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Bitcoin’s New Headwind: ESG Investors Double Down on Its ‘Staggering’ Pollution
Bitcoin’s New Headwind: ESG Investors Double Down on Its ‘Staggering’ Pollution
January 06, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

In February, Elon Musk made a big stir in the bitcoin community by announcing Tesla would soon start accepting bitcoin in payment for its cars....

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Will 2022 Be the Year That Central Banks, Private Banks Collaborate on CBDCs?
Will 2022 Be the Year That Central Banks, Private Banks Collaborate on CBDCs?
January 06, 2022  |  CBDC

As central banks examine digital currencies (CBDCs) and the private sector delves ever further into stablecoins, convergence and collaboration may be overarching themes of 2022...

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Use Cases Unveiled at CES Demonstrate the Transformational Capabilities of 5G
Use Cases Unveiled at CES Demonstrate the Transformational Capabilities of 5G
January 06, 2022  |  Mobile

The high speed and low latency of 5G will be enable more appliances that are used every day to deliver the capabilities people now expect...

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Big Data is Dead. Long Live On-Demand Data
Big Data is Dead. Long Live On-Demand Data
January 06, 2022  |  Connected Economy

Big Data is dead. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Rho CEO: Middle Market Businesses Want Business Bankers, Not Branches
Rho CEO: Middle Market Businesses Want Business Bankers, Not Branches
January 06, 2022  |  SMBs

It could be said that small and mid-sized business banking suffers from a bit of a Goldilocks syndrome. That is, the mega-corporate clients get well-served...

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