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Walmart Online Sales Explode

Walmart Online Sales Explode
Walmart Online Sales Explode
August 18, 2017  |  Earnings

Investors aren’t an easy bunch to please these days, especially investors with retail holdings who’ve had a rough go of things lately. Get the Full...

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Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing
Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing
August 18, 2017  |  Cybersecurity

Retailers are retailers, not security experts. Too often, their best efforts can create friction at the point of sale for consumers, which leads to shopping...

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Open Banking, Open APIs, Wide Open Opportunities?
Open Banking, Open APIs, Wide Open Opportunities?
August 17, 2017  |  Banking

Europe has mandates in place for open API adoption (perhaps you’ve heard of PSD2)? Here in the States, the playing field is taking shape, but in...

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Honeyfi: Love — And Better Budgeting — Can Keep Millennials Together
Honeyfi: Love — And Better Budgeting — Can Keep Millennials Together
August 17, 2017  |  Mobile

Money, as most people well know, cannot actually buy love or happiness. This fact, of course, breaks our hearts as payments experts — as we prefer everything in...

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Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
August 17, 2017  |  Payment Methods

It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry in which technology...

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Urban FT Makes Bid For Troubled Online Bank Digiliti
Urban FT Makes Bid For Troubled Online Bank Digiliti
August 16, 2017  |  Partnerships

Urban FT has launched a bid for struggling mobile money firm Digiliti. To get a sense of the strategy behind the deal, Karen Webster got an exclusive first look...

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Interview With A Financial Vampire
Interview With A Financial Vampire
August 16, 2017  |  Cybersecurity

There’s a lot of money in stolen credit cards. Fraud magnate Bern Ersell declined to tell PYMNTS exactly how much, but he did give a...

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Did You Hear The One About The Man Dressed Up As A Car Seat?
Did You Hear The One About The Man Dressed Up As A Car Seat?
August 16, 2017  |  Internet of Things

While much has been written about the coming technological future, when cars will drive themselves, actually seeing an unmanned vehicle on the road is still...

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