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Boston Startup Nift Raises $16.5M for Business Gift Cards

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Boston-based startup Nift has raised $16.5 million in a Series A to fund its platform for “business gift cards,” a way for local businesses to drive customer engagement by providing gift cards to their consumers.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash

PYMNTS

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Consumer for the end user.

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

PYMNTS

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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Mastercard’s Threat Scan Helps Banks Detect Vulnerabilities

PYMNTS

As weaknesses in authorization systems can be exploited by online thieves, financial services firms are more vulnerable to hackers and get hit 300 times more often than other businesses, according to the Boston Consulting Group. The new service is being featured at the Mastercard Cybersecurity Summit in Croatia from Sept.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

PYMNTS

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. Innovation by Any Other Name. is nothing new.

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Central Banks See Digital Fiat As Complement To Cash, Not Replacement

PYMNTS

It might also offer opportunities not possible with cash while supporting innovation.”. As reported in the latest “How We Will Shop” report, done in collaboration between PYMNTS and PayPal, 24 percent of all consumers said they had shifted at least one daily activity online, and plan to keep it that way.

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What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys

PYMNTS

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing.