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Kiosks Flourish In International Markets

PYMNTS

Kiosks are gaining more power in retail, especially as it becomes ever more obvious that consumers are not quite ready to cut ties with physical forms of buying, contrary to the early fever dreams of the eCommerce age. There are seven million family-run mom-and-pop stores that dominate retail outside big cities in China,” that analysis reads.

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How much cash should a company have?

Abrigo

Considering some restaurants and retailers in Massachusetts lost half of their sales during one month of an unusually harsh winter in 2015, the low cash buffer for restaurants suggests many of those restaurants likely faced a liquidity crunch, the September 2016 report said. “It

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What are analytical procedures and their benefits?

Abrigo

Analytics can range from simple comparisons (for example prior year’s ending balances vs current year ending balances, square footage of retail space available vs sales ) to the use of complex models involving many relationships, regression analysis and components of data. Does the data suggest errors were made?

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Vesta Corporation Shows Innovation A Hidden Victim Of Fraud

PYMNTS

The company recently published a new eBook , Managing The Risk Of Fraud: The View From Corporate Finance, in which Vesta and CFO Research surveyed 155 senior-level finance executives in the U.S. billion in fraud losses incurred by retailers in 2016 alone, a figure representing 5.7 Citing Nielsen Report statistics, Vesta noted $16.3

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GDPR Laggards Can Still Get Ahead Of The Game

PYMNTS

However, Pace offered a more positive view during the discussion, which served as an accompaniment to a new GDPR eBook from PYMNTS, in which he and other experts gave observations and analysis about the regulation. So far, one of the positive results of the GDPR push is “dialogue.”.

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Top 5 Customer Development Posts of 2022: Digital Banking and Pricing Opti

FICO

His insights on humanizing interactions come from his larger piece on digital banking called The 11 Commandments of Digital Banking eBook. It's a strategy that requires accurate customer validation and data analysis, with an emphasis on action-effect modelling rather than hypothesis. Read the full customer development post 4.

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The AI Method To Fighting Fleet Card Fraud

PYMNTS

Credit card skimmers are a headache for fuel retailers, but there is more than one way that fraudulent actors can target fleet spend. These crimes certainly harm corporate spenders, but also expose issuers, acquirers and fuel retailers to security threats.

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