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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

PYMNTS

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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Mobike, Masterpass And Riding Toward A Shared Future Of Innovation

PYMNTS

Here in the States, urban commuters are doubtlessly familiar with bike-sharing based on docking stations — from metro Boston’s Hubway service to Los Angeles’ Metro Bike Share. But in China, a change has been brewing — and rapidly, as the market is evolving away from those docks. As of the latest U.S. sometime soon.

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57 banks and nothing wrong?

Chris Skinner

Seven years ago, the first new retail bank in almost a century got its licence to open: Metro Bank. Building a private bank from scratch at a time when the market seemed fixated on digital rather than face-to-face banking might have seemed foolhardy. Collectively, these startups have raised hundreds of millions of pounds.

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Challenges for the neo-challengers: Four hurdles to overcome

Accenture

In my frequent conversations with clients across the UK and Irish banking industry, one of today’s hottest topics is the rise of the challenger banks such as CYBG, Metro and AIB UK, and particularly the neo-challenger banks providing digital-only services, like Monzo, Atom and Starling. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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Visa: How Mass Transit Is Driving Contactless Payments’ Global Future

PYMNTS

Seven years ago, when Visa first started working on bringing contactless payments to London’s Mass Transit system, the landscape for tap and go cards looked very different. In Europe, contactless card-based payments have come to dominate face-to-face payments. “In Major metros in the U.S. And while the progress in the U.S.

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Union Budget 2021: Highlights

BankBazaar

Metro services announced in 27 cities, plus additional allocations for Kochi Metro, Chennai Metro Phase 2, Bengaluru Metro Phase 2A and B, Nashik and Nagpur Metros. A Unified Securities Market Code to be created, consolidating provisions of the Sebi Act, Depositories Act, and two other laws. in 2021-22.

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Inside Kount’s Fraud-Fighting Machine

PYMNTS

The urgency of robust and multilayered fraud detection systems becomes especially clear against a backdrop where card-not-present fraud is likely to grow by leaps and bounds in the wake of the EMV liability shift from last year. BW: It’s hard to pick just one – but here is one that I think underscores our approach to innovation.

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