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Japan Tests Robotic Bartender In Push For Retail Automation

Japan Tests Robotic Bartender In Push For Retail Automation
Japan Tests Robotic Bartender In Push For Retail Automation
February 04, 2020  |  Retail

With a pilot that could usher in a new era of technology as stores and restaurants grapple with hiring in an aging country, the first...

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Platforms Dance To The Gen Z Tune
Platforms Dance To The Gen Z Tune
February 04, 2020  |  Platform Payments

By the end of 2020 four in 10 shoppers worldwide will belong to Gen Z, the consumer group born more or less between 1996 and...

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Deep Dive: Why Innovation’s Lack Of Ubiquity Is Stalling Open Banking
Deep Dive: Why Innovation’s Lack Of Ubiquity Is Stalling Open Banking
February 04, 2020  |  Regulation

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Debit Beats Credit With Bridge Millennials
Debit Beats Credit With Bridge Millennials
February 04, 2020  |  Payment Methods

Would you pay interest on a cup of coffee? Not willingly – unless you use a credit card at the POS terminal, that is, in...

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Report: Visa Eyes Biggest Interchange Fee Revamp In A Decade
Report: Visa Eyes Biggest Interchange Fee Revamp In A Decade
February 04, 2020  |  VISA

Visa is proposing to change its interchange rates — commonly known as swipe fees — in ways that would vary according to transactions and merchant...

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Kabbage Steps Up Payments Offering With SMB Loans
Kabbage Steps Up Payments Offering With SMB Loans
February 04, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Alternative lending firm Kabbage is introducing a new loan product that offers customized cash flow solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the payments startup...

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AR-AP Connectivity Forges Deeper Buyer-Supplier Ties
AR-AP Connectivity Forges Deeper Buyer-Supplier Ties
February 04, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Innovations in accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) have introduced new technologies to sit between buyers’ and suppliers’ systems for deeper integrations between business...

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The JOBS Act Eyes A New Generation Of SMB Investors
The JOBS Act Eyes A New Generation Of SMB Investors
February 04, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Among the most disruptive changes introduced in 2016 by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is the opportunity for small, private businesses to raise...

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US Banks Tighten Business Loan Underwriting
US Banks Tighten Business Loan Underwriting
February 04, 2020  |  Bank Regulation

As business loan performance drops off, U.S. banks are anticipated to rein in criteria this year, a Federal Reserve (Fed) survey showed on Monday (Feb. 3)....

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