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Vantiv Q4 OmniReadi Index™

Merchants Hop Aboard The OmniCommerce Train
 

Here’s news. According to Q4 2016 OmniReadi Index™, about two-thirds of merchants got their omnichannel groove on and posted better than benchmark scores. There are four reasons why all merchants should strive to do the same, Radial President, Tobias Hartmann, tells Karen Webster, who shares his insights on perfecting the omnichannel strategy in this issue of the Index.

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Bitcoin: From Store Of Value To Value At Store?
 

Commodity. Currency. A hybrid of the two. Where you stand on bitcoin determines how you use it, but as Gene Kavner, founder and CEO of iPayYou notes in the latest PYMNTS Topic TBD with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, as bitcoin moves more mainstream, its presence in retail as a method of payment should blossom.
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PYMNTS Data Dive

The Turning Point Edition: Yahoo’s Breach, Costco’s Cards, and IBM’s Blockchain
 

2017 may be right around the corner, but the mantra of “out with the old, in with the new” isn’t always that simple. This week’s Data Dive takes a look at the turning points for Yahoo (and its breach), Costco (and its cards) and IBM (and its blockchain). Dive right in.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis
 

It’s not news that the 70 million people we call Millennials are financially challenged. But Karen Webster says that new research out of Stanford sheds extraordinary new insight on their financial state of affairs. Only 50 percent of them will ever out earn their parents, and the picture gets worse for middle and lower middle class kids. That, Webster says, raises a whole host of questions for society, and some big decision-points for the payments, retail and commerce players seeking to serve them. She lays it all out here.

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