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This week’s podcast: a discussion of co-brand credit card rewards and loyalty programs

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In this week’s podcast, we look at co-brand credit card rewards and loyalty programs from the differing perspectives of banks and their merchant partners, including why these programs are important and the issues and challenges they present.

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Apple Card: 7 key takeaways

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Apple's new credit card isn't just another virtual card in its virtual wallet. It borrows a lot of features from the most successful brands in payments and technology.

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Mastercard’s Kirkpatrick: Transit Is The Ticket To Everyday Spend

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Loading funds onto a prepaid card that opens the turnstile once scanned, swiped or inserted works terrifically well – until the customer forgets to check the balance on his transit pass, and finds himself locked out at the turnstile. What better to get top-of-wallet relevance than embedding a contactless chip in your card?”

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Will Amazon Pay Plus Worldpay Conquer Food?

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card network in 1985 by turning a merchant’s cardholder base – 25 million Sears customers – into Discover cardholders by letting them use those cards at other merchants. There was the same talk then about retailers not letting consumers use a payment card owned by their largest rival. Guess what? Time flies.

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Why Restaurants Are All In On Kiosks, AI Tech

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To present brands that allow them to stand out from retail competitors, merchants in the hospitality space are turning to innovations. Restaurant Brands International CEO Jose Cil told CNBC , “We thought the coffee subscription would be a good way to bring people in, raise some excitement at Burger King.” More than half — or 54.2

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Lyft To Offer Perks To Promote Driver Loyalty

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Lyft, which is expected to soon be a publicly traded company , said it will offer incentives to help drivers economically, such as no-fee bank accounts, debit cards and special prices on rentals. The company will also open centers where drivers can get car washes and discounts on car maintenance.

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Why Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail

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And some eCommerce brands are bringing the convenience of self-service technology into their brick-and-mortar stores. Customers can unlock fridges by providing a credit card or another payment option with ShelfX’s technology. The technology then only charges consumers for the items that they end up removing from the cooler.

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