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December 19, 2017

Holiday Spend Trends

First Data: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Everywhere Consumers Shop
 

After years of sluggish holiday sales, First Data’s latest report on the holiday shopping season is shockingly merry and bright. Consumers are just plain spending more this year, First Data SVP Glenn Fodor told Karen Webster in a recent conversation about First Data’s SpendTrends report. And, barring any shocking reversals, Fodor said the good times are rolling. Details.

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CFPB

Game Of Thrones: CFPB Edition
 

Prestige television fans suffering from 'Game of Thrones’ withdrawal have gotten a strange sort of gift from the CFPB this holiday season in the form of a polarized power struggle for control that one would normally need an HBO Series to enjoy. True, there are a lot more lawyers, and regrettably few dragons, but the plot contours are both surprisingly similar and equally convoluted.
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Voice Commerce

Alexa: Calling Your Screen And Screening Your Calls
 

Contextual commerce is on the rise, and Alexa’s mission is to use voice and AI to make transactions with context a voice command away. Semafone’s global solutions director Ben Rafferty tells PYMNTS how the virtual assistant can help make call centers more efficient, hasten linked commerce through the TV, ensure consumer data security and mitigate the risk of consumers being scammed from spoofed calls.

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Digital Banking Tracker™

Trending: How Banks Use AI To Make Faster Payments More Secure
 

Speed kills — fraud? J. Christopher Ward, EVP of PNC financial services, says that faster payments don’t have to come at the expense of security. In fact, inside the latest Digital Banking Tracker, a Feedzai collaboration, Ward tells PYMNTS that faster can be safer — when paired with the right technology, like artificial intelligence and machine learning. Find those insights, as well as a directory featuring over 200 profiles of top digital banking players.

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