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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. Last week , Walmart Pay rolled out in Alabama and Georgia. Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely.

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SNAP Users Shut Out Of The Digital Grocery Aisles

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Looking at the past several weeks of PYMNTS consumer survey data, four times more consumers are buying groceries online instead of going into the grocery store these days. Smith suffers from a chronic medical condition affecting her connective tissue and laments the fact that she can’t use her SNAP to easily shop online.

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Easing Recurring Collections For Tech-Averse SMBs

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Striking a balance between simplicity and agile technology has been a struggle for many payments firms looking to meet the collections needs of SMBs in areas beyond the biggest urban markets, Polancich recently told PYMNTS in an interview. “They have a hard time using online banking.

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NEW REPORT: Hibbett Sports (Finally) Steps Up To The eCommerce Plate

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Online shopping is nothing new, but with heavy promotion and low prices among sporting goods companies, just having an online presence likely i sn’t enough to pull out a victory, especially if and when the competition somehow goes into extra innings. Big-box stores are losing ground to online warehouses like Amazon.

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Deep Dive: Digital-First Banking’s Challenges And Benefits

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Mobile and online banking’s prevalence has reduced physical branches’ importance, but these brick-and-mortar establishments are still vital to customers’ financial lives. This gap represents a significant segment of the banking market that could be captured with personalized banking services.

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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Samsung Pay is the first mobile payment service of its kind to be launched in Spain, giving it a head start in the market over Apple Pay and Android Pay. Apple Pay — 20 Months In.

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Bringing SNAP Recipients Into The Digital Fold

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In early 2017 the USDA pushed out a pilot program that allowed SNAP enrollees to buy groceries online with their card in seven states and with seven grocery partners: Amazon, FreshDirect, Safeway, Dash’s Market, Hy-Vee, ShopRite and Hart’s Local Grocers. This last round of piloting is set to take another two years.

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