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Mobile Applications

What's a mobile app? A mobile app is a software program you can download and access directly using your phone or tablet or generally any touch screen device. Typically a mobile app is purchased or downloaded through an app store or can be side loaded on various platforms.

Scotiabank: Why Banks Need To Rethink Personalization
Scotiabank: Why Banks Need To Rethink Personalization
July 22, 2020  |  Digital-First Banking

Financial institutions (FIs) are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel for bouncing back from the pandemic, but the crisis has...

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How Mobile Apps Can Help Restaurants Make Loyalty Rewarding
How Mobile Apps Can Help Restaurants Make Loyalty Rewarding
July 21, 2020  |  Restaurant innovation

For a consumer, getting and redeeming rewards should be seamless across online and in-person channels. And today, that experience has to be even more than...

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How Alipay Works To Thwart Payments Fraud
How Alipay Works To Thwart Payments Fraud
July 20, 2020  |  AML

A small lapse in judgment can cost consumers big when transacting via payment apps, but having users jump through security hoops creates a clunky customer...

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The Shazaam Of Shopping, Shnap, Brings Visual Search To Fashion
The Shazaam Of Shopping, Shnap, Brings Visual Search To Fashion
July 20, 2020  |  Retail

The fashion visual search category has added a new player with the international launch of Shnap. Based in Australia, its executives liken their product to...

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Checkers And Rally’s: How The Drive-Thru Is Changing QSR Loyalty And Rewards
Checkers And Rally’s: How The Drive-Thru Is Changing QSR Loyalty And Rewards
July 20, 2020  |  Restaurant innovation

Loyalty programs with enticing incentives have always served as an effective tool for helping drive business for quick-service restaurants (QSRs). But those innovative programs once...

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Leveraging Payments To Unify The Transit Experience
Leveraging Payments To Unify The Transit Experience
July 17, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

Countries around the world are reopening their borders, and consumers are eager to travel — but in a contactless, safe way. This can be a...

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How Personal Shopper Platform Dumpling Aims To Beat Instacart And Amazon
How Personal Shopper Platform Dumpling Aims To Beat Instacart And Amazon
July 17, 2020  |  Gig Economy

Is it really necessary to train a personal grocery shopper how to pick a good banana? It’s a question that Nate D’Anna, serial entrepreneur and...

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Can Mobile Solve A City’s Transit Payment Challenges?
Can Mobile Solve A City’s Transit Payment Challenges?
July 16, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

High transaction success rates can indicate an efficient payments operation, but keeping them high is no easy feat. False positives, payment gateway malfunctions and incorrect...

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Wells Fargo Shuts Millennial-Friendly App ‘Greenhouse’ To New Clients
Wells Fargo Shuts Millennial-Friendly App ‘Greenhouse’ To New Clients
July 15, 2020  |  Digital Banking

Wells Fargo has quietly stopped accepting new users for its Greenhouse mobile-first banking app, which the bank unveiled less than three years ago. “The enrollment...

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