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Heads Up, Millennials: Chick-Fil-A Wants To Buy You Breakfast

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The Atlanta-based fast-food chain is giving away a free breakfast item to all of its app users as a way to thank them for making the mobile app one of the top free downloaded apps in the Apple App Store since the launch in June. If you love Chick-Fil-A, you’re going to love them even more now.

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How Much Can Technology Improve Healthcare Payments?

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Touted by observers and industry players as one of the top trends that could impact medical billing and data management for 2018, the technology is increasingly being viewed as part of the path to better efficiency in payments. Among the latest hopes for healthcare payments is blockchain.

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Reseller Market Maintains Momentum With Nordstrom’s Entry

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It also manages resale programs for Arc’teryx, Eileen Fisher, Patagonia, REI and Taylor Stitch. According to “The State of Consumer Spending: Gen Z Shoppers Demand Sustainable Retail” from FirstInsight , 62 percent of Generation Z survey participants prefer to buy from sustainable brands, on par with millennials.

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The key challenges facing the US mobile payments market this year

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Some of the challenges for the region were recently highlighted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, in a feature outlining the organization’s predictions for the payments industry in 2016. While mobile is a wide-ranging area, it highlighted a few key sub-sectors that are set to be particularly prominent in the US this year.

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Alibaba Tracker: Alibaba Vs. Tencent

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The service has 450 million global active users and has teamed up with Atlanta-based credit card processing service First Data to grow that number even more, by giving Americans (and Chinese tourists in America) mobile payment options at four million U.S. It’s too soon to say whether Alibaba’s investment will give it an edge.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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billion of assets under management. Hats off the Schools Financial’s board and management for acknowledging that even multi-billion dollar credit unions can drive value via merging with someone bigger. We salute CEO Frank Weidner, CIO David Mason and Strategic Insights Manager Mike Lindberg for taking this big strategic step.

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This Week In Insurance Tech: Policygenius Raises $100M, Lemonade Enters Pet Insurance, Nationwide Expands Digital Footprint

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Boost Insurance , a New York-based B2B digital insurance platform, raised a $14M Series A led by Coatue Management, and Conversion Capital. Coalition , a San Francisco-based digital cyber insurance managing general agent (MGA), acquired BinaryEdge , a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company, for an undisclosed amount. . PARTNERSHIPS.