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UK Retailers Struggle to Stem Slumping Sales, While Canada Sees Slight Increase

UK Retailers Struggle to Stem Slumping Sales, While Canada Sees Slight Increase
UK Retailers Struggle to Stem Slumping Sales, While Canada Sees Slight Increase
September 23, 2022  |  Retail

Retailers in the U.K. reported a drop in sales for September and expect that trend to continue next month as businesses prepare for the holiday...

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Costco Earnings Reflect New Competition as Consumers, Rival Retailers Trade Down
Costco Earnings Reflect New Competition as Consumers, Rival Retailers Trade Down
September 23, 2022  |  Retail

Since opening its first warehouse store in Seattle 40 years ago, Costco has never wavered from its mission “to continually provide our members with quality...

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Data Point: Travel App Bookings Up 16% in Q2
Data Point: Travel App Bookings Up 16% in Q2
September 23, 2022  |  Travel Payments

When they say “pent-up travel demand” they mean it, as consumer use of airline booking apps and websites rose by double digits in the second...

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Congress Drills Bank Brass on Authorized Push Payments Fraud
Congress Drills Bank Brass on Authorized Push Payments Fraud
September 23, 2022  |  Bank Regulation

The top brass of the country’s seven biggest financial institutions faced lawmakers in a second meeting on Capitol Hill about accountability, consumer protection, and compliance,...

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Watchdog: Crooks Likely Jacked $45B From Pandemic Unemployment 
Watchdog: Crooks Likely Jacked $45B From Pandemic Unemployment 
September 23, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

Crooks likely used the Social Security numbers of dead people and prisoners plus filed claims in multiple states to steal more than $45 billion from...

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Raising the Bar for Passwordless, Frictionless Commerce
Raising the Bar for Passwordless, Frictionless Commerce
September 23, 2022  |  Authentication

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Checkout Data Helps Icons (and Upstarts) Flex Brand Muscle
Checkout Data Helps Icons (and Upstarts) Flex Brand Muscle
September 23, 2022  |  Consumer Insights

Ideas around using data insights to pinpoint what value and experience really mean to consumers as huge economic trends overlap are the obsession of brands,...

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Automation Solves Primary Pain Point for 70% of SaaS Firms
Automation Solves Primary Pain Point for 70% of SaaS Firms
September 23, 2022  |  Accounts Payable

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NFTs Offer Cultural and Crypto Bridge for Newcomers Who Want Out of Fiat
NFTs Offer Cultural and Crypto Bridge for Newcomers Who Want Out of Fiat
September 23, 2022  |  NFTs

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are inextricably tied to blockchain technology and the wider crypto ecosystem by the nature of their technical design. Get the Full Story...

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