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

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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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PAAY Rolls Out Partner Platform To Complement EMV 3DS Technology

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PAAY said its EMV 3DS offering lets merchants decrease chargeback costs, bolster authorization rates and maintain compliance as they provide an easy as well as frictionless experience for users. The company reports that retailers selling through eCommerce are experiencing record sales numbers, but fraud rates are also on the uptick.

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Mastercard Partners With Four Retailers For Pay By Bank App

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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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How To Navigate The Rapidly Resetting World Of Retail

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Burkhart will be one of many innovator CEOs on Innovation Project’s The Future Meets The Present Right Now: Can Retail Keep Pace? Skyler Fernandes and current Proudwork CEO — former Rakuten.com CEO — Fumio Kobayashi to discuss the rapidly resetting world of retail — and what merchants can do other than just “going digital.”.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens.

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Everyone’s talking about APIs. Why?

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While looking at the predictions for the FinTech area for 2017, I started noticing that APIs were showing up again and again. As Jim Marous notes in his article, Top 10 Retail Banking Trends and Predictions for 2017 , “APIs were not even listed as a 2016 trend, but was #4 in 2017.”.

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The Venture Investing Road Less Traveled: Funding Enablers, Not Challengers

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SoftBank launched a $100 billion fund in 2017 that took multibillion-dollar stakes in these (and other) companies. In the face of such funding, it has become difficult for the ecosystem at large to separate tech innovators from those that are but a next-generation façade of a traditional business model. First Enable, Then Disrupt.

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