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Staying Ahead Of The Payments Curve
Staying Ahead Of The Payments Curve
December 12, 2016  |  Point of Sale

Today, at the point of sale, it’s not enough to just have a solution in place that works — merchants are in need of smarter,...

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Making the ‘Swych’ To Perfect eGifts
Making the ‘Swych’ To Perfect eGifts
December 12, 2016  |  PYMNTS Topic TBD

EGift cards are the closest thing to the perfect digital gift — sometimes. In the latest PYMNTS Topic TBD, Deepak Jain, CEO of Swych, discussed...

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Starbucks Sizzles, Sears Fizzles And Pixel Shows Sizzle Potential
Starbucks Sizzles, Sears Fizzles And Pixel Shows Sizzle Potential
December 09, 2016  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Starbucks had a big week with expansion plans and bots, while Sears saw its bottom line losses grow by 65 percent (!) year over year....

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The Real 2016 Retail Spending Story
The Real 2016 Retail Spending Story
December 09, 2016  |  Retail

Here’s the good news about all of the data on holiday retail spending: don’t like what you read one day, don’t worry — someone else...

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Moving To Safeguard PII, Bit By Byte And Chip by Chip
Moving To Safeguard PII, Bit By Byte And Chip by Chip
December 09, 2016  |  Security & Fraud

Cyberfraud is moving beyond credit and debit cards to grab the sensitive data that sells briskly on the black market. In a recent whitepaper, Intel delved into the lure...

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Apple Pay’s Active Week
Apple Pay’s Active Week
December 08, 2016  |  Apple Pay

Apple Pay might not have quite caused the spontaneous combustion of mobile pay that they — and many others — were hoping for a little over two...

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What ‘Unscorable’ Consumers Really Look Like
What ‘Unscorable’ Consumers Really Look Like
December 08, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

While credit scores, or the lack thereof, tell lenders a lot about consumers, the traditional credit scoring models don’t always provide a clear picture of...

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Amex Acquires InAuth
Amex Acquires InAuth
December 07, 2016  |  Security & Fraud

The American Express that exists today (i.e., the one that just acquired InAuth) would look pretty foreign to its first employees of 166 years ago...

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