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Homesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers

PYMNTS

They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Competition is thus a multilevel event for hospitality services that need to juggle payment innovations, user perks and security.

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AI’s Place In The $50B RV Market

PYMNTS

Technology and social media company Facebook is also growing more involved in the sharing economy. That means taking a closer look at buyer and seller payments, as well as security measures, on the platforms, said Colin Gardiner, chief revenue officer of shared RV marketplace Outdoorsy.

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Millennials Reluctant To Give Personal Data, Businesses Depend On It

PYMNTS

Between the Instagram selfies, Twitter hashtags and Facebook posts, millennials seem to overshare. Their life is an open book on social media, and even the tiniest of details are never too much to provide. Millennials expect technology to intelligently know who they are, with any investigative work done on the back end.

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Chinese Tourists Are Driving Global Payment And Retail Change

PYMNTS

-based hospitality company signed a deal with Alibaba that enabled consumers to book Marriott hotel stays via Fliggy , the travel services platform owned by the China eCommerce giant. Fliggy Moves To Secure Loyalty. This spring, Marriott redesigned its Fliggy storefront and added a feature called Post Post Pay (PPP). So is WeChat.

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Is The Phone Number The New SSN?

PYMNTS

And for that reason, credit bureaus, financial institutions and even eCommerce sites find they must look elsewhere for verifiable data or risk overlooking good but “thin-filed” consumers, including millennials. This leaves many without the “creditworthy” data that makes “thin files” thick. This is the conundrum,” Ayers admitted. “If

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Marketplaces Bet That A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Sales

PYMNTS

In an interview with PYMNTS, Richard Noguera , chief information security officer at Yapstone , discussed the findings of the playbook titled “ Meeting the Millennial Need For AI-Powered Visual Shopping.”. To me, this is not a security responsibility, but it’s just a ‘doing the right thing’ responsibility,” he told PYMNTS.

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Top 5 Surprises from FICO’s Fraud and Digital Banking Survey

FICO

Financial Institutions, such as banks, have expended great effort to improve digital security, yet bad actors are multiplying and attacks have increased in scope and frequency. Yet along with digital adoption, FIs are also butting up against entrenched consumer thinking that creates security risks. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45.

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