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2018 Recap: The Year In Grocery Innovations

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Shoppers had new opportunities to buy groceries without having to walk through the aisles of their local supermarkets or wait in line at checkout counters this year, as grocers rolled out digital innovations in shopping and payments. Personal Shopping Services. A customer can order at 5:00 p.m., pick up at 5:30 p.m., Cashierless Checkout.

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Innovative Sales Models And Technologies In Retail

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171M: Number of worldwide virtual reality (VR) users in 2018. 1.8B: Amount that virtual reality will generate through retail and marketing in 2022. Data: 3,000 percent: Amount by which VR-enabled revenues are set to increase. 87.9B: Annual spending on haircare products.

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Why Innovation Acceleration Matters

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Innovation has become such a buzzword that it can be applied to countless solutions and initiatives, from emerging 5G mobile technology and the rise of “smart factories” to using blockchain to trace and track food supply chains to deploying kiosks to personalizing the ordering experience. The State of Innovation. points to 19.3,

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UK Digital Markets Unit To Tighten, Enforce Big Tech Competition Rules

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The British government is establishing a new Digital Markets Unit tasked with enforcing laws that apply to Big Tech companies, such as Google and Facebook , authorities announced in a press release. s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the agency that oversees enforcement of antitrust laws. According to the U.K.

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3 Fintech Predictions for 2018 [SPONSORED]

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Rarely a day goes by that the financial industry isn’t being infused with the latest and greatest technologies. Fintech, or the marriage between finance and technology, is several decades in the making. For market participants, this means a world of possibilities.

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Banks Say FinTech Innovation, Not Regulation, Is Now Their Fiercest Market Pressure

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But according to a new report from EY, it would be unfair to say that regulation is the only driving force behind large banks’ changing market strategies. In its Global Banking Outlook 2018 survey , EY assessed 221 financial institutions across 29 markets. Optimism Up. Cybersecurity.

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Top banking and financial markets blogs in 2018

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Looking at the top five blog entries of 2018, we see that using technology to meet the ever-increasing scale and rate of regulatory change is top of mind for financial service organizations. As Marc Andrew’s notes in his blog, Demystifying AI for risk and compliance , in 2018, we saw AI tackle exhausting regulatory requirements.