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April 24, 2017

Customer Acquisition

How Retailers Can Reclaim A Month of Lost Sales
 

Retailers say they lose out to Amazon for many reasons. One of them is their inability to enable last-minute gifting. Loop Commerce CEO Roy Erez tells Karen Webster how innovations in gifting, now, can help retailers gain at least 30 days of sales they lose each year and help issuers drive more transaction volume.

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MoneyGram CIO Talks Data Security
 

Cybercrime isn’t a threat, according to MoneyGram’s Wayne McGurk; it’s a series of constantly evolving threats that’s grown 10-fold over the last five years. In this week’s Topic TBD conversation, McGurk talks to Karen Webster about the firm’s proactive approach to keeping data secure as a “clicks-and-mortar” player that operates in more than 200 countries.
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BJ’s On The Block, Amex’s Millennial Problem And Another Big Breach
 

Another week to watch as Amazon’s next move in the grocery domination game might involve snapping up BJ’s Wholesale Club, American Express struggles to get the attention of the cool kids and hackers manage to crack about 1,200 hotels. Then, there’s the whole juice fiasco.

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Mobile Payments

Ant Financial's Great Mobile Payments Race
 

Money certainly seems to be burning a hole in Alibaba’s and Ant Financial's pockets as they’ve dumped billions of dollars into a variety of mobile payments schemes in the last two years. Its assets across Southeast Asia and the U.S. (should the MoneyGram acquisition be approved) build on the 450 million consumer cornerstone called Alipay already inside China. But Karen Webster said that the real test of their mettle will be waged in India — as they and the global card networks duke it out for the top spot in this critically important economy. And where Ant’s success will hinge on a few very important things.

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