January 01, 2018
All Sizzle, No Fizzle: Top Payments Topics Of 2017
Voice activation, artificial intelligence, alternative financing and IPOs: These were some of the year’s hottest topics in the payments industry – and for better or worse, they all underwent significant...
January 01, 2018
The 17 Most Important Stories Of 2017
Happy New Year! Ready to hit the gym? Gonna learn to speak Mandarin this year? Have a book club to form? Those are all perfectly fine pursuits - but before...
December 29, 2017
Sizzle Fizzle: Consumer Credit Use Sizzle, Apple Fizzles And Bitcoin’s...
The end is here. Well, when it comes to 2017 anyway. But before we send the year off into that good night, we must first assign our final rounds of sizzles...
December 29, 2017
Apple’s Retail Flagship’s Winter Weather Woes
Apple‘s Chicago flagship store in Chicago has often been praised as a marvel of design. It even has a MacBook-shaped roof. It does, however, have one small issue. Its design...
December 29, 2017
2020 Olympics To Ramp Up Security With Facial Scanning
In an attempt to boost security and speed up entry, facial recognition technology will be used at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. According to The Japan Times, digital verification...
December 29, 2017
China Sets Cap On QSR Payments
The central bank in China is clamping down on mobile payments made via a barcode and scanning devices, a move that could negatively impact Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate...
December 29, 2017
Apple Offers Apology For “BatteryGate”
Apple has released a statement addressing “Battery Gate,” the company’s controversial decision to slow down older phones in order to protect battery stability. The statement included the following, as reported by...
December 29, 2017
The Conversations That Defined The Reinvention Of Retail In 2017
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” There are many great ways to begin a book – but it’s hard to argue that anyone did...
December 28, 2017
Mobile Payments 2.0: Building Better Retail Experiences
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable in scores of innovations around the world. But, as...
