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October 3, 2016

Borderless Commerce

When Digital Fraud Takes The Field
 

All digital retailers care about fraud – buy why would a professional soccer team be on high alert? In a recent digital discussion ThreatMetrix’s CMO and CPO, along with San Jose Earthquakes' Head of Corporate Partnerships, joined Karen Webster for an in-depth look at how the long arm of digital fraud can even wreak havoc on the soccer field in San Jose.

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PYMNTS Topic TBD

For Wearable Tech, Moving Beyond the Fitness Zone
 

The Snapchat Specs begged one very big question: Are wearables solutions looking for a problem to solve? In the latest PYMNTS Topic TBD, Cortex MCP CEO Shaunt Sarkissian weighed in on what might put wearable technologies firmly into the firmament beyond fad into “must haves.”
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Data Dive

Let The Games Begin Edition: Samsung, Citibank & PayPal Step It Up
 

It was a big week for big moves. Samsung fired a shot across the wearables bow, Citibank got in on the "Zelle" party and PayPal's moving to kill the rent check through a partnership that shares their first name. You know how they say everybody wants to rule the world? Looks like some payments and commerce players are looking to make some serious moves just in time for the baseball playoffs.

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Retail Reinvention

Does Retail Really Need Salespeople?
 

Cliff Stoll wrote that the internet would be a dud because, among other things, it could never replace the bastion of capitalism, the salesperson – six months before the launch of Amazon which obviously proved him wrong. Stoll’s piece got Karen Webster to thinking about the role of salespeople in retail, the impact of the internet on the retail experience and the digital consumer’s expectations of the physical store experience. She concluded that Stoll wasn’t only wrong about the internet’s future (obviously) he was wrong about the role of salespeople in furthering retail’s. Curious about what she thinks is?

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