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Gallery: Priming Your Social Media Strategy for Amazon’s Prime Day

The Financial Brand

This article Gallery: Priming Your Social Media Strategy for Amazon’s Prime Day appeared first on The Financial Brand. This gallery of social media posts illustrates how seven different types of messages can be used to maximum effect. Prime Day is a great marketing opportunity for banks and credit unions.

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Banks On Notice: Fintechs Are Coming For Checking Accounts & Debit Cards

CB Insights

One of the biggest trends in fintech today is the rise of digital banking products like mobile checking accounts and new debit cards. From Square to Paypal, a host of fintechs are creating products that let consumers spend money directly out of digital accounts using a physical card. turning Digital p2p payments into debit cards.

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Biometrics Are The Seattle Seahawks’ MVP

PYMNTS

Thousands descended upon T-Mobile Park stadium in Seattle on March 28 — the earliest opening day in Major League Baseball (MLB) history — to see their home team, the Mariners, take on last year’s World Series champions, the Boston Red Sox. At the concessions POS, there’s quicker transaction times. million people in 2016 to 17.2

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Protein Bar And Kitchen Customers Earn Loyalty Points No Matter How They Pay

PYMNTS

Now they can earn points no matter how they pay, even if they opt to use a credit card or cash. The new app is powered by LevelUp , a mobile payments platform created by Boston startup SCVNGR and the force behind PYMNTS’ mobile order-ahead tracker. That’s the biggest win for our guests,” said Rettker. Because they are special to us.”.

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And The Payments And Commerce Innovation Winners Are…

PYMNTS

PricewaterhouseCoopers — after 83 consecutive years of tabulating the Academy Awards without incident — managed to accidentally put the wrong card in Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway’s hands for the Best Picture award and … well the rest is YouTube history. PwC is now called Probably Wrong Card!”.

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What Everyone Missed About Facebook

PYMNTS

That putting what is now the inevitable regulatory screws to social media platforms will impose unwieldly compliance costs on every player, making it harder for new players to emerge and scale, and thereby strengthening Facebook’s position. Why has the weather been so crappy for the Boston Marathon for the last 10 years?

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant. The software/platform pieces is the ability to use virtual card numbers. Plus the 1% rewards.

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