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August 23, 2019

Real-Time Payments

SWIFT: Real-Time Payments Demands Real-Time Security And Compliance

Passengers wouldn’t board a train if they thought the rails they traveled over weren’t safe. The same holds true for the rails that are moving money between accounts in real time, Heather Lee, financial crime compliance and sanctions strategy at SWIFT tells Karen Webster. Here’s what she said the payments ecosystem must overcome to build safer and faster real-time payments systems.

 

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Cryptocurrency

Flexa: Making Crypto Spendable In Every Store

Beyond bitcoin and price swings, might there be a place for crypto in commerce? Flexa wants to bring digital currencies into physical stores through a digital network that connects directly with merchants. According to Co-Founder Trevor Filter, the moves will make crypto spendable — pretty much everywhere.

 

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Digital Home Buying

Digital’s Impact On The Consumer’s Biggest Purchase: Their Home

Disruption and innovation are running at full steam in the world of homebuying and selling. In a new PYMNTS interview, Flyhomes Co-Founder and CEO Tushar Garg talked about his company’s role in that ongoing disruption, and what’s coming next at the intersection of real estate and digital technology.

 

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Retail Earnings

The Big Winners (And Losers) Of Retail Earnings Season

The numbers are mostly in and the results for retail after Q2’s earnings results were all tallied up were decidedly, mixed?  For some players — Target and Walmart most noticeably — Q2 was mostly a victory march. For others, the entire department store segment for example, the good news wasn’t great, and the bad news was pretty terrible. We break it all down.

 

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Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook™

Trending: Meeting The Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping

Sixty percent of millennials like using visual searches when shopping online marketplaces. Meeting that "look, buy, have" way of shopping, means using AI to optimize those retail platforms for visual search, Lihi Pinto Fryman, co-founder of visual AI company Syte told PYMNTS. In the latest Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook, Fryman discusses the impact of visual-based search systems on millennials and the marketplaces they shop.

 

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