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Deep Dive: Why Contactless Payment Innovation Is Key For CUs Amid The Pandemic And Beyond

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The use of Apple Pay, Google Pay and other digital wallets has also been on the upswing since the start of the pandemic. The following Deep Dive examines the interest in contactless payments among credit union members and the opportunity for the CU space to meet members’ changing payment needs through digital innovation.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay.

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Millennials Are Ready for the Bank of Amazon

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11 survey from Accenture, millennial participants would consider parking their money with nontraditional institutions, and they picked winners. Attractive alt-banking contestants included Apple and Facebook, but it was Google, and of course, Amazon, Read More. Amazon wins, once again, at a game it didn’t even know it was playing.

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Why (Win Or Lose) Apple Card May Already Be Changing Payments

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In technology, especially when it comes to consumer-focused technology, Apple is viewed as a disruptive force. One might argue that the shifts have been better or for worse (when was the last time one could separate a millennial from their iPhone for a decent conversation?), The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay.

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Millennials Prefer Venmo to Cash, Duh

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A new report shows that millennials use Venmo more than they use ATMs as if there was any doubt that to this audience an app like Venmo is a prime method of payment. Rubiix, a social spending app that distributes advertising revenue among its users, released a report Friday showing ATM transactions among millennials have […].

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DATA: How FI’s Innovation Gap Is Big Tech’s Big Opportunity

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It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . According to the latest edition of the Innovation Readiness report, only 22.3

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Five Innovative Ways Consumers Shop In The Digital Age

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Find out how retailers are enabling purchases in stores as well as through apps, smart speakers and smart watches with new and innovative payment methods: A little more than eight in 10 — or 81 percent — of consumers travel to a store to make a purchase. More than one third of consumers — or 35 percent — have used an app to make a purchase.