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2.1KCredit UnionsNEW REPORT: The Credit Union Guide To Smart Aging
They’re generations apart, but can older credit unions (CUs) and newer FinTechs get along? Based on recent activity, it would appear so....
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2.1KDisbursementsNEW REPORT: Helping Beauty Professionals Tame The Cash Flow Beast
Time is money. And for contractors in the beauty industry, time wasted by no-show customers cuts right into the bottom line. But...
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2.6KInternationalNEW REPORT: Can X-Border Receivables Save Rhinos?
By some accounts, the value of cross-border B2B payments could reach $3.68 trillion by 2025. With so much potential revenue at stake,...
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2.9KAPINEW REPORT: How Banks Are Driving API-First Strategies
New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the...
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2.6KPlatform PaymentsNEW REPORT: Expedia Explores The Payments World
From international consumers embracing the mobile wallet to world travelers planning their next trips online, platform commerce is going global. The September...
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3.2KFaster PaymentsNEW REPORT: Same Day ACH Gets Its First Sequel
In mid-September, the second phase of the Same Day ACH initiative will roll out across the U.S. faster payments system. But unlike...
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1.8KMPOS TrackerNEW REPORT: mPOS Goes Back To School
Whether it’s a college student paying for a dining hall lunch with a selfie, or a family looking for a faster way...
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3.8KCredit UnionsNEW REPORT: The Credit Union’s Biggest Risk — Not Taking Risks
Credit unions are risk-averse institutions by nature. But if credit unions don’t take a gamble on new financial innovations, they are inadvertently...
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2.5KIntelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be There … Now?
Being smarter than the competition can have its advantages in everything from athletics to business. So, by this thinking, can smarter IoT-powered...
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3.8KDisbursementsNEW REPORT: Faster Disbursement Services From Alt-Lending Players Put Banks On Notice
Another month, another nail in the paper check’s coffin thanks to new disbursement solutions. But don’t bother to send flowers or plan...
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3.0KPayments As A ServiceNEW REPORT: Filling Dental’s Payments Data Gaps
New payment solutions are promising to deliver big changes to the small business community — both the brick-and-mortar and eCommerce varieties. With...
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3.1KMobile Order AheadNEW REPORT: How Shake Shack Is Shaking Mobile Order-Ahead
As early mobile order-add adopting restaurants are reaping the benefits of the technology, other merchants are looking to add their own mobile...
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2.3KAppleNEW REPORT: Will Apple’s ARKit Be A Shot In The Arm For AR?
Whether it’s AR or acquisitions, software development companies are constantly looking for the edge that can help separate their business from the...
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3.2KSecurity & FraudNEW REPORT: Using Data To Design A Digital Fingerprint
These days, it seems everyone is going mobile — and digital identity providers are no exception. The August PYMNTS Digital Identity Tracker™,...
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3.4KOmnicommerceNEW REPORT: Why Hibbett Sports Waited Until Just Now To Move Online
Online shopping is nothing new, but with heavy promotion and low prices among sporting goods companies, just having an online presence likely isn’t...
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4.4KDigital BankingNEW REPORT: Bank Of The West Takes On Innovation’s Wild West
If the past month is any indication, the digital banking space could be getting even more competitive, as newer players gain capabilities...
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3.6KUnattended RetailNEW REPORT: Three Square Market Puts Its Chip On The Table (And Into Employees)
One of latest unattended retail solutions could someday have customers waving goodbye to old payment methods. And while they’re waving, they’ll also...
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6.6KAPIAPI As Olive Branch? Silicon Valley Bank Seeks To End FI Rivalry
The rivalry between banks and FinTechs has, at times, been tense if not downright combative. Enter APIs to help the two sides...
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3.1KPlatform PaymentsNEW REPORT: Mobile Platforms Take Personalized Aim At Amazon’s eThrone
Platform providers around the world are looking to give customers and retailers new possibilities in shopping and commerce. And, as mobile devices...
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3.1KMPOS TrackerNEW REPORT: Mastering mPOS At The British Open
With mPOS technology, consumers around the world can pay for purchases with a tap on their phones, and businesses can accept payments...
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3.7KFaster PaymentsNEW REPORT: The Community Banks’ Faster Payments Wake-Up Call
The faster payments get, the less tolerable waiting becomes for customers, businesses and other financial players. But in late July, one of...
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4.8KIntelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: When Robots Man The Grill
There’s been no shortage of speculation — including doomsday declarations — about the potential impact of automation, smart technology and artificial intelligence (AI) on...
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4.5KCredit UnionsNEW REPORT: Giving Credit Unions Their Due Credit
Is the credit union market ready for its close-up? It’s a market that is showing clear signs of growth. In fact, the...
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4.4KMobile Order AheadNEW REPORT: From Apps To Amazon, Why TGI Fridays Is All In On Mobile Order-Ahead
The mobile revolution has hit the dining industry and is becoming a staple for QSRs, fast casual restaurants and beyond. And recently,...
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3.1KPayment MethodsNEW REPORT: Getting SMBs Off The Software Sidelines
Sometimes, even the best businesses, big and small, need a little help from software. Whether its finding and keeping loyal customers or...
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4.0KSecurity & FraudNEW REPORT: Shutting Down PSD2’s New Security Threat
Protecting digital identities is all about keeping up — keeping up with new technology, new regulations and, of course, bad actors. The...
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5.3KPayments As A ServiceNEW REPORT: Getting SMBs Ready, Set, Going On Mobile Order-Ahead
Modern innovations have made technology from smartphones and mobile ordering apps to even virtual reality, well, a reality. Now that this technology...
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4.8KOmnicommerceNEW REPORT: How Lowe’s Does Omnichannel Self-Improvement
With companies from home improvement retailers to electronics manufacturers to clothing designers working to improve the online sales experience, good ideas can...
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3.4KDigital BankingNEW REPORT: Atom Bank Turns To Gaming To Disrupt Digital Banking
New players on the banking scene are bringing a host of changes to the industry. But in some cases, these disruptions are...
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5.0KAPINEW REPORT: For Mastercard, Are APIs More Priceless Than Plastic?
Could APIs be the great payment equalizers? One major payment company is ready to take that chance in an effort to expand...
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4.0KPlatform PaymentsNEW REPORT: Fiverr Finds Future Outside The Gig Bargain Bin
Searching for a different kind of lodging or the perfectly priced graphic designer to help give a startup the right look? These...
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3.4KDisbursementsNEW REPORT: Travel Insurance Gets Upgrade With Faster Claims
Is it time to retire the phrase “the check’s in the mail”? The availability of new payment and disbursement solutions is showing...
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5.0KFaster PaymentsNEW REPORT: To Mandate Or Not To Mandate? That’s The US Faster Payments Question
Big changes are coming to the faster payments landscape. But don’t worry about blinking and missing them, because these changes are going...
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4.1KMobile PaymentsNEW REPORT: How mPOS Can Help Steer Clear Of Beach Parking Burn
With a little mPOS magic, can finding a parking spot or running a restaurant be turned into just another day at the...
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4.9KPayment MethodsNEW REPORT: How One Health And Wellness Company Carbo-Loads On Software
Can software development be the ultimate workout program for an eCommerce business? With new capabilities that allow companies to target or understand...
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4.7KSecurity & FraudNEW REPORT: Why Wells Fargo Is Going Mobile For Authentication
Changing consumer spending and ever-evolving technological capabilities means that authenticating customers is an always shifting process. So how do financial institutions and...
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5.1KPayments As A ServiceNEW REPORT: Have Payments-As-A-Service, Will Travel
As more customers engage in cross-border trade, the pressure is on merchants to meet the demand for convenient payment options. In an...
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3.8KMobile Order AheadNEW REPORT: Cowboy Chicken Ropes In Millennials With Mobile Order-Ahead
The mobile revolution has hit the dining industry, and from local haunts to multinational chains, restaurants are looking to offer increasingly mobile...
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2.9KUnattended RetailNEW REPORT: GM Takes Aim At Urban Gridlock With Maven
From depositing money to grocery shopping to access to vehicles, unattended retail solutions are stepping up to meet a variety of needs...
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5.8KDigital BankingNEW REPORT: Banking For The Socially-Conscious Consumer
Sustainability, as it turns out, is power. And thanks to new banking solutions, consumers are gaining new insights into their spending habits...
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4.6KPlatform PaymentsNEW REPORT: How Airbnb Does Payments
It can be a long road from startup to unicorn, with more than a few speed bumps on the way. But when...
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4.3KOmnicommerceNEW REPORT: Chatbots Go Omnichannel As Personal Stylists
Everyone could use a little styling help from time to time, but would you more likely ask a bedazzling chatbot than a...
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4.3KAPINEW REPORT: Western Union’s Legacy ‘Street Cred’
There was a time when the telegraph was as important to keeping people connected as the smartphone is today. And while the...
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5.1KCross Border CommerceNEW REPORT: How P2P Gives B2B X-Border Merchants A (Revenue) Lift
By 2020, some 940 million cross-border shoppers are expected to spend $1 trillion on eCommerce, or online payment, transactions. For marketplaces, this...
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3.4KFaster PaymentsNEW REPORT: Can Faster Payments Put Caregivers On A Fast-Track To Full-Time Benefits?
Not only are faster payment tools bringing helping to exchange funds at a quicker pace, but these solutions are also transforming the certain...
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4.8KIntelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: IoT Turns Trash Into A Shopping List
Why would anyone chuck a connected device directly into the trash right after purchasing it? Because, from inside a trash can, a...
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4.6KMPOS TrackerNEW REPORT: mPOS And The Merchant Omnichannel Juggling Act
Modern technology has given retail merchants a multitude of new tools to help run their businesses, but it’s also given them plenty...
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2.4KDisbursementsNEW REPORT: Can Disbursements Give The Insurance Industry An Innovation Adjustment?
New disbursement tools appear to be ready to hit the road. But are payment disbursers (and their financial partners) prepared to put...
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3.5KMobile Order AheadNEW REPORT: Why Five Guys Says Mobile Order-Ahead Is All About The KISS
Restaurants that want to deliver a great — not just good — mobile order-ahead experience may want to consider the KISS (Keep It...
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3.2KPayments As A ServiceNEW REPORT: Upgrade Payment Systems, Build Stronger Communities?
Sunscreen? Check. Bug spray? Check. Updated online systems to reduce paperwork? Check. In recent weeks, companies have rolled out several different types...
