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Report: Demand For Retail Rewards In Brazil Outpaces Actual Perks By A 5-To-1 Margin

Report: Demand For Retail Rewards In Brazil Outpaces Actual Perks By A 5-To-1 Margin
Report: Demand For Retail Rewards In Brazil Outpaces Actual Perks By A 5-To-1 Margin
July 27, 2021  |  SMBs

Making Loyalty Work For Small Businesses: Brazil Edition, a PYMNTS and Pollinate collaboration, analyzes survey responses from a census-balanced panel of 1,106 Brazilian consumers to...

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From Sales To Orders And Even Trade Shows, B2B’s Shift To Digital Is Expanding
From Sales To Orders And Even Trade Shows, B2B’s Shift To Digital Is Expanding
July 27, 2021  |  B2B Payments

With Zoom meetings replacing in-person business conferences and virtual events replacing the physical trade show, the way B2B organizations interact and transact with business customers...

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Square Aims To Do For Small Business Banking What Its Card Readers Did For POS
Square Aims To Do For Small Business Banking What Its Card Readers Did For POS
July 27, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

In everyday terms, a decade is only 3,650 days. You may not look all that different today than you did in 2011, save a few...

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Afterpay Sees BNPL Pact With Westfield Shopping Centers As Brick-and-Mortar Booster
Afterpay Sees BNPL Pact With Westfield Shopping Centers As Brick-and-Mortar Booster
July 27, 2021  |  Buy Now Pay Later

For most Americans, buy now, pay later (BNPL) is still mostly an online shopping experience. That is where they first encountered the increasingly popular payment...

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How Identity Has Become The ‘Linchpin’ Of The Digital Economy
How Identity Has Become The ‘Linchpin’ Of The Digital Economy
July 27, 2021  |  Authentication

Not so long ago, identity wasn’t really an area of concern in the financial services ecosystem, or the economy at large. Fast-forward a decade and...

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Facebook Begins Work On Metaverse For AR, VR
Facebook Begins Work On Metaverse For AR, VR
July 26, 2021  |  Facebook

Facebook is creating a “metaverse,” which allows for digital worlds that several people can share simultaneously, and it is in the process of setting up...

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Goldman Sachs Expects Spending Slowdown In Second Half Of Year, Cuts GDP Forecast 1 Pct
Goldman Sachs Expects Spending Slowdown In Second Half Of Year, Cuts GDP Forecast 1 Pct
July 26, 2021  |  Economy

Goldman Sachs has cut its perception for U.S. economic activity for the near future, with the reasons being twofold: the slowdown in consumer spending and...

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Netflix Working On Live-Action Pokemon Series, Report Says
Netflix Working On Live-Action Pokemon Series, Report Says
July 26, 2021  |  Streaming

Netflix is developing a new Pokemon TV show, Variety reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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UK Gardening Tech Startup Sproutl Nets $9M, Launches Online Marketplace
UK Gardening Tech Startup Sproutl Nets $9M, Launches Online Marketplace
July 26, 2021  |  Startups

U.K. gardening startup Sproutl has rolled out a new online marketplace, a press release from Monday (July 26) said, alongside a new seed funding round...

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