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January 30, 2017

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MoneyGram CEO On Ant Financial — And The Transformation of Payments
 

MoneyGram and Ant Financial managed to turn our collected heads with their surprise acquisition announcement last week. Karen Webster got the inside scoop on the deal from MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes: how it happened, why it happened and the transformational nature of the combination. It's good stuff — and you'll only find it here.

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Making Startups Pay (and Get Paid)
 

Every “next big idea” needs a little help getting off the ground to make the leap from dream to reality. In the latest Topic TBD, Plasso CEO Drew Wilson talks about the outlook for SMBs in 2017 and need to give even the newest ones a way to embrace their digital future even if they’ve never written (nor ever intend to) write a single line of code.
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PYMNTS Data Dive

Amazon Marches On, Target Pushes Payments And Card Counterfeiters Are Thwarted
 

In a new week full of facts real and alternative — it can be hard to stay up on what’s real, let alone what is important. Luckily we’re here for you. Amazon moved on in its quest to be the internet’s source for everything, Target jumped into payments for real and EMV is doing its job at the POS.

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Retail Reinvention

Channeling Retail’s Inner Animal
 

Researchers say that the best predictor of how and where consumers shop is observing how animals forage for food. This week, Karen Webster thinks it might be worth channeling your inner chipmunk in order to understand how retailers might best capture consumer spend. Spoiler alert – 90 percent of their spend may not even be up for grabs – regardless of how hard you try. So, don’t you want to trade places with a chipmunk for the next 5 minutes?

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