PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. In fact, their slogan for the card is “Created by Apple, Not a Bank?.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The aim of the new store is to further extend its lead over Apple in India’s smartphone market. The report noted that Samsung operates 2,100 stores in India via franchise partners. In the past, I brought the new technology and differentiation to the flagship model and then moved to the mid-end. “In

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NCR

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There’s nothing more suitable for technology disruption than traditional small business banking. And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. And 77 percent of them said that technology makes them feel “more in control.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing. Streamlining operations and improving customer insights were key, but so was protecting against fraud, Koch said. No one used it,” he lamented. “It

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Whether through buy-online, pickup in-store programs or other efforts that mix the digital and physical sides of retail, consumers are responding to that combination — and that especially includes millennial shoppers, Schreiner noted. It’s easy to overestimate millennials’ engagement with technology,” he said. Voice Shopping.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

When consumers point their cameras at an object, Bixby Shopping identifies it and directs that shopper to an eCommerce site operated by a Samsung partner. Mobile shopping game show app Gravy wants to capture the attention of millennials with short game shows almost every night of the week. These apps can be quite entertaining too.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company GO-JEK , for instance, is expanding its financial technology services through partnerships with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms Dana Cita, Aktivaku and Findaya.

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NCR

JULY 20, 2016

Biometric technology is becoming an increasingly important part of the payments industry, as organizations look for reliable, fast and convenient methods of authentication. But which biometrics technologies are likely to have the biggest impact on the payments industry? Fingerprints. Voice recognition . Ear acoustics .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Particularly among younger consumers, the millennial and Gen Z “digital natives,” who, by the numbers, show a much greater affection for the physical store than their boomer parents and Gen X older siblings do. Operating in omnichannel is a requirement, Nicola said, to any serious merchant now more than ever.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Sustainable commerce is having a moment — well, two or three of them given how millennials and even younger consumers champion the trend — and that applies to food waste and commerce involving meat and plants. That technology can be a bit complicated, and PYMNTS is not a science or engineering journal. Need for Transparency.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Apple Needs To Diversify. Retailers like Kohl’s, Walmart and CVS are rolling out their own mobile-payment services and competing with Apple Pay, but it’s not because of overwhelming user adoption of mobile payments. But Apple needs to be quick. But In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Amazon and Apple have both launched their own virtual assistants. Looking ahead.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. Some recent episode titles include: “Should Bankers Fear Apple’s Future Growth Strategy?” Regular, Timely Episodes. Weeding through banking podcasts to find gems.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? They can be a strategic shift of your franchise, a new product line, or a new operating environment. Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Unattended retail has been on a technological march toward progress — so much so that it is no longer an afterthought for companies but a solid revenue driver if done correctly. Loyalty can, with technology, mimic the retail experience that is found in a brick-and-mortar store, said Powell. Video screens. Cashless payments.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There’s a demographic push at work here, too, said Carcillo, which he defined as “millennial consumer groups.”. And [merchants] are not wanting to be left out of that demographic,” citing the younger generation’s aptitude for technology. The process, and the hardware involved, said Carcillo, “can be off-putting to some.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This happened despite sophisticated technology capabilities that successfully flagged many other types of inappropriate postings, like pornography, and kept them off the platform for years. Only 38 percent of hate speech content was identified by their technology in Q1 2018, they reported, resulting in the removal of 2.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. In a recent survey by Vantiv and Socratic Technologies, across 500 consumers, findings indicated that these buyers held, on average, 2.1 The fact remains that price is a competitive advantage or threat, depending on which side of the pricing war you’re on.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. A whopping 63 percent of millennials (ages 18 to 29) don’t have a credit card, according to a survey commissioned by Bankrate and compiled by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Offer millennials the human touch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Their performance last quarter was eye-catching for what it says about Square’s pivot over the last several years toward becoming a technology-driven merchant services firm. On the hardware side, in late 2015, Square rolled out its latest generation of card readers that were both chip- and Apple Pay-compliant. loss last year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That’s the backdrop for the nearly hour-long conversation that Karen Webster had about the role of payments security in digital business transformation with CA Technologies Director of Payments Security James Jenkins. Of course, it’s not just the FinTech industry and tech-savvy millennials who are fueling digital change.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

26, the eCommerce operator — via its Alexa Skills Kit Blog — announced the debut of “two new Alexa capabilities that will help create a more natural and intuitive voice experience for your customers.”. One can bet that the ongoing deployment of new 5G mobile network technology will drive things further. 18 announcement. #3:

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

In an interview with Brian Abele, director, Segment Solution Strategy at Fiserv , the executive explained the submission of Alexa as a financial assistant aims to help consumers connect technology to their financial lives. When it comes to a technology like this, you can definitely get some traction being early to market [or] first to market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

face pressure to step up technological advances, where inexorable movement toward digital and consumer-focused services can foster a disconnect that, left unaddressed, will turn loyalists fickle. We’ll use that Buffett-ism as a jumping-off point to reflect on the fact that credit unions (CUs) have built strong reputations over decades.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Perhaps most important, they are the most active pursuers of expanding the payment technology they offered. percent of core and IT-enabled FIs have invested in payment technology over the past three years, compared to 22.2 Among bridge millennials, Americans biggest earning and spending demographic, the figure jumps to 41 percent.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Finovate kicked off on 9/11 in New York City, a great message to the world about how The Big Apple operates 16 years later: living freely, building, dreaming, and getting stuff done. In the name of all that is good and holy, is it too much to ask that the yammering on about Millennials cease? Bad combination.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Some familiar names such as Amazon, Facebook and Apple helped propel that index, showing that enthusiasm for all things digital is unbowed. Where there’s new technology and novelty and money to be made, investors clamor, and now, it seems, bad guys lie in wait.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 15, 2015

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. This year will be huge for payment disruption.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

But listeners beware: Forbes notes that there’s also room for marketers to wedge their way in to leverage smart audio technology for advertising. IT services firm Unisys sees potential for businesses to leverage voice technology by building personal voice assistants into corporate networks.

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Lex Sokolin

APRIL 28, 2021

Now, Mad Money and its angry charismatic host are part of a legacy media industry structure; one which has been melted down by technology. But all this is Gen X and Millennial stuff. This next generation has abandoned Facebook (usage of 32% for Gen Z vs. 84% Millennials) and adopted TikTok (35% vs 19%).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

Technology and conventional wisdom can get things horribly wrong at the intersection of tech-driven innovation and commerce. What drives innovators, to, as Apple once nudged us, “think different?” The key is to be transparent, especially for the millennials, as “they are looking at all that stuff,” Fadell said. Or a moral.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Technology, cloud computing, the diffusion of mobile devices, the many location-based technologies that mobile enables and an ever-growing supply of APIs and SDKs all make it incredibly tempting and even easy to start a “platform” business. Two: Platforms have to operate at scale. PLEASE, DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

That includes the two mobile giants who started this massive wave rolling to shore: Google with Android and Apple with its iOS-based mobile devices. All you millennials out there, ask your parents what they used to do as teenagers on Saturday afternoons. A LITTLE WALK DOWN SHOPPING’S MEMORY LANE. Should they focus on apps?

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2016

That, as it turns out, was the good old days of voice technology assistance. Today the incorporation of voice technology into daily activities runs the gamut, from taking music requests on-demand to ordering from Amazon to typing your texts for you. to roll out a voice technology offering. The response thus far? Phenomenal.

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