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Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model

PYMNTS

Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop specializing in digital diabetes diagnosis and treatment – has partnered with vegetarian meal kit purveyor Purple Carrot to add a retail angle to its health advisory service. In fact, the $17 million raised by the company since its founding in 2014 has come strictly from those physicians, not VC funding.

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Physical Retail Isn’t Dead – The Physical Store Model Is

PYMNTS

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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Mastercard Partners With Four Retailers For Pay By Bank App

PYMNTS

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. ’s Faster Payments service to give users the option of paying for goods with their bank account.

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The Quest for Omnichannel Continues

Celent Banking

Earlier this month, Celent published a report providing an analysis of an October 2014 survey among North American banks and credit unions. The effort sought to understand the state of retail banking channel systems. Source: Celent survey of North American financial institutions, October 2014, n=156.

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The Resurgence of NFC

Celent Banking

This is the time of the year when we begin to cast our eye back to 2014 as well as forward to 2015, and reflect on the top trends we are seeing in the market. Without a doubt, the biggest event in payments in 2014 was the launch of Apple Pay. Banking Retail Banking Apple Pay contactless NFC'

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How 2015 is Different for Retail Banks

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The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Digital Banking. Cyber vulnerabilities.

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Dineout Collaborates With Google On Restaurant Options

PYMNTS

To enhance user experiences by bringing additional features to a navigation engine, dining technology platfrom Dineout has collaborated with Google. Times Internet Limited acquired Dineout in April 2014. . Mehrotra, Sahil Jain, Nikhil Bakshi, and Vivek Kapoor founded the company in 2012.

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