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The Challenges Challenger Banks Must Overcome To Compete

The Challenges Challenger Banks Must Overcome To Compete
The Challenges Challenger Banks Must Overcome To Compete
November 11, 2019  |  Banking

Challenger banks — financial firms offering something much like banking services, and looking to compete with old-school banks — are a new idea. The basic...

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Building A Visual Test-Drive Experience For Retailers
Building A Visual Test-Drive Experience For Retailers
November 11, 2019  |  Innovation

Seeing is believing. Excuse the cliché, but it does hold a good wallop of truth in commerce, especially as such technologies as virtual reality (VR),...

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What Food Commerce Shifts Do Ghost Kitchens Foreshadow?
What Food Commerce Shifts Do Ghost Kitchens Foreshadow?
November 11, 2019  |  ResTech

Here’s a question about the last meal that was delivered to your office or home: Do you really know where that food came from? Sure,...

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Can There Be An Uber Of Furniture?
Can There Be An Uber Of Furniture?
November 08, 2019  |  Subscriptions

This a story about how a dubious, painful achievement — and we use “achievement” cautiously here — became a business plan, and one of the...

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USAT: Why Unattended Retail Is Commerce’s ‘Great Equalizer’
USAT: Why Unattended Retail Is Commerce’s ‘Great Equalizer’
November 08, 2019  |  Unattended Retail

The rise of unattended retail – from yesterday’s vending machines full of candy and soda to today’s upscale self-service conduits where one can get kiosk...

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Is ‘Walking In A Live Instagram Account’ The Future Of Physical Retail?
Is ‘Walking In A Live Instagram Account’ The Future Of Physical Retail?
November 08, 2019  |  Retail

Remember those first giddy days of eCommerce? If so, one can probably remember the fantastical predictions that, before too long, brick-and-mortar retail would go the...

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Bottomline: The Watershed Hurdles B2B RTP Must Clear
Bottomline: The Watershed Hurdles B2B RTP Must Clear
November 08, 2019  |  B2B Payments

As real-time payments (RTP) gain traction with consumers via peer-to-peer (P2P), the pump may be primed for business-to-business (B2B) transactions to follow suit. Get the...

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Visa On Challenging B2B Payments Status Quo
Visa On Challenging B2B Payments Status Quo
November 07, 2019  |  B2B Payments

To change the status quo — to upend the way it’s always been done — the mantra goes, “think outside the box.” Get the Full...

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