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Saturday - February 9, 2019


Health And Beauty SMBs' Retail Innovation Readiness


Call Centers And AI-Enabled Interfaces



Red Envelopes, Fortnite And Micro Money Laundering


BB&T, SunTrust Announce ‘Merger Of Equals’


Why Tech Giants Are Hiding, Or Shifting, User Stats


Western Union Digs Into Digital, Powered-By Platform Future


Yum Brands Pushes Forward With QSR Tech


Wirecard Teams With Oney For Retail Payments


Grubhub’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day


Betterment On Using AI, Automation For Customer Engagement


Deposit Solutions Brings Savedo To Switzerland


Deep Dive: How mPOS Helps Supermarkets Compete


Deep Dive: Fighting Fraud At The Genetic Level


Fiserv’s Yabuki Talks Payments Digitization Amid Q4 Sales Growth


Onward Financials’ Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative


AEVI, Secure Trading In White-Label POS Pact


Inside Rebag’s Rent-To-Resell Luxury Handbag Model


The PSD2-GDPR Balancing Act


The CFPB Payday Lending Rules 2.0 — What's Next


Will Slack’s Direct IPO Be A Direct Hit With The Street?


Deep Dive: Improving AML/KYC Requirements


Death, Crypto And A Lost Password


Could Good Healthcare Require Blockchain And Biometrics?


Deep Dive: Weighing The Fed's Faster Payments Proposal


Alipay Teams With Tourism Australia


A New Space For Cards In Global P2P


The Making Of A Digital Subprime Marketplace


FinTech Bud Funding Shows Bank Coopetition Motives


Chinese Firms Go X-Border As Economy Slows


Google Feels The Cost-Per-Click Squeeze In Q4


Mortgages As The On-Ramp For Lifelong Financial Management


Why Voice Authentication’s Doing Prison Time


Amid Job Numbers Blowout, Gig Economy Thrives


THE LIST Teams With BitBay Pay


AI Innovation Steered By US And China


Online Sports Betting Gets A Super Bowl Workout


Warby Parker Goes AR/VR — Will It Generate Sales?



PODCAST: Airlines Must Get Wheels Up On Alt Payments


Integrating Payments Into The Workflow And Workforce



How Madhappy Turned T-Shirts Into A Lifestyle Brand


Dunkin’ Deepens Digital Delivery Push Amid Espresso Relaunch


Retail Pulse: Walmart’s Allswell Goes On Tour


Proven Skincare Taps AI To Personalize Beauty


Digital Convenience And Chipotle's Q4 Push


PupPod On Adoping A Smart Pet Toy Subscription Model


FabFitFun Thinks Outside The (Subscription) Box


White-Glove Returns And Changing Retail Logistics


IKEA Tests Subscriptions In The Sharing Economy Age


Milk Makeup On Building Ethical Beauty Buzz


Target Taps eCommerce Merchants For Millennial Edge


Are Smartphone Payments Physical Retail’s Lifeline?


Interior Define’s Omnichannel Furniture Design Approach


Recharge On The Flexible Hotel, Home Stay


Innovative mPOS, Paving The Way To Self-Checkout's Future



New Paths And Pressures For Payments


How Merchants And Innovators Fight Friction


Payment And Retail Integration Goes Digital


Making Ends Meet As Consumer Margins Narrow


Consumers, Brands And Self-Sufficiency's Power



When Passwords Become Corporates' Own Worst Enemy


UK Metro Bank Hit By Messaging Scams


B2B FinTech Firms Brace For Growth With New VC


Food Retail Supply Chains' Compliance Beast


Funds Flow in Southeast Asia For Tech Unicorns


Tax Reform Impacts SMB Bank Lending


Accountants Emerge At Corp. Finance And IT's Junction


Blockchain Gets Nod In The Isle Of Man


Fleet Cards Caught In Corporate Card Fee Debate


Data Integration For Successful B2B eCommerce


X-Border Efforts Mark Open Banking, API Partnerships


Australia Commission On SMB Lending Misconduct


Getting CRM Tech Up To Speed With SMB Payments


PG&E Bankruptcy Plans May Also Hit Suppliers


SMB Growth Stumbles Over Tech

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Fourteen-hour workweeks and flying refrigerators? In the 1960s, these were among the bizarre expectations for what’s now present day. Take a weekend joyride into the history of the future, via views of relatively obscure predictions from generations ago (some duds, some oddly prescient). It’s your PYMNTS Saturday feature. We hope you enjoy.

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While the American economy looked strong in 2018, cash was tight for a large number of people. In Q3, about 41 percent of consumers were behind on bill payments — way up from 31 percent in Q2. Thirty-six percent were so deep in debt, they were contacted by collectors. The Q3 2018 PYMNTS Financial Invisibles Report examines why consumers fell into delinquency, despite a strong economy.

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