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X-Border Merchant Rankings: And The eLeader Is…


As The OmniReadi Gap Widens (And Stagnates)


The Rise Of RegTech


Five Years Of CFPB Consumer Complaints


In Digital Banking Age, Personal Touch Still Matters


Tackling The 'One-Size-Fits-All' Global Payments Myth


AI Assistants Sizzle While Wells Fargo Reinvents The Fizzle


Making Kohl’s Pay, Pay


Should Faster Payments Bet On The Blockchain?


Matchmakers’ Secret Friction Fighter


Cash: Ageless And Thriving In Eastern Europe


MoneyGram CEO Talks MobilePass


eDNA As Predictor Of Fraud?


SMBs Snared In Wells Sham Account Fiasco


Why Scaling The Gig Economy Comes Down To Payments


Mastercard Redefines Luxury For The Affluent


When Fraud Takes The (Professional Soccer) Field


Payday Lending Regs Comment Period Down To The Divided Wire


Google's Pixel Event: The Good, The Bad And The Weird


For Wearable Tech, Moving Beyond The Fitness Zone


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The Upside Of Hurricommerce
 

Hurricanes are economic disasters right? Maybe not. There will certainly be billions of dollars in damage as Hurricane Matthew barrels up the East Coast of the U.S. but economists say that really bad weather inspires really creative thinking and (in certain cases) leads to very trackable long term economic growth. Think we’re making this up? Do you have a card you can use at an ATM card in your wallet? You can thank the blizzard of 1978 for that.

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Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t 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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