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How CUs Can Leverage Loyalty Programs To Boost Their Brands And Retain Members

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Nearly four out of 10 CU members would be willing to switch primary FIs, according to the PYMNTS Credit Union Innovation Playbook — and the COVID-19 pandemic is making it even more important for credit unions to provide the support and stability that consumers seek. Listening to Members.

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Why Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail

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New digital innovations, however, provide the promise of offering valuable customer data to merchants. These are just some of the ways that merchants are using digital innovations to better serve their customers with the help of kiosk and unattended retail technology: . In the U.S.,

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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall.

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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But that doesn’t mean the money doesn’t flow during the baseball playoffs – evidence of that comes from Jim McIngvale, a Houston furniture store owner known as “ Mattress Mack ,” who just put $3.5 million on the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. Payments Innovation.

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The Apple Pay Pivot?

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After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

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Congress Wants Digital Platforms To Release Their Algorithms – Why?

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Since consumers don’t know what goes into creating those returns, the algorithms create the “filter bubbles” that the Act’s sponsors say are both manipulative to the consumer and harmful to innovation. where so much of tech innovation has emerged and flourished. Houston, Is There Really a Problem? companies doing business there.

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

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It’s never quite a slow week in the world of payments and commerce, and the newest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender is proof of that. The payment firm’s $500 million investment in Uber just before its initial public offering (IPO) dropped 34 percent. Upgrade Card Combines Credit Card Acceptance With Installment Payments Flexibility.

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