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All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. The company also launched a gift card portal in order to help buyers search for and support Square sellers. Card-present volumes were down by 60 percent year over year. Customers stored more than $1.3

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We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift. Consumers expect secure and fast access to digital tools. Retailing 2020: Five Things To Watch. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech. SBA reports show that $510.5 Trackers And Reports.

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JUNE 26, 2019

They may enjoy strolling the aisles of physical retail, but many customers still want support features that enable them to quickly and easily find and buy items, through self-serve offerings and other automation technologies. The June Automated Retail Tracker charts all the latest developments and deployments of these models and more.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S., Gas stations are encouraging it.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

There seems to be no such thing as a Christmas vacation when one’s main profession is defrauding consumers and businesses. It appears the ever-inventive thieves of the world have found a new way to make gift card fraud work for them this holiday season, according to the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These three main segments of the Fleet Solution are said to provide better control over operations and increased protection against fraud. Shell employs 8,500 people in India and retails fuel in six states. . The global smart fleet management industry was valued at $290.9 billion in 2016 and is projected to grow at a rate of 7.6

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JUNE 16, 2016

It’s no wonder why retailers love gift cards – they are known to drive foot traffic, increase revenue, boost their customer base and complement retention efforts. But as consumers continue to move toward a digital option for their gift card needs, could a retailer’s dream turn into an actual nightmare?

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AUGUST 27, 2019

When it comes to retail innovation — changes that promise to influence commerce not only this year, but in the 2020s — cameras could have a significant role. Take security cameras for starters. “We This data certainly isn’t nothing, but it pales in comparison to the data troves that digital retailers have. Data Blocks.

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APRIL 16, 2019

From fuel pumps to convenience stores (C-stores), many consumers worry about the security of their personal financial information. adults are concerned about the security of their financial data when making payments at these venues. Mobile wallets , however, have advantages that span from convenience to security.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. Security Cameras.

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JANUARY 18, 2020

More impressive, according to shop owner Aquila Brown, the burglar managed to avoid ever directly looking at the security cameras, and managed to locate the cash register instantly, despite the fact that it had been recently relocated in the shop. Botched crimes in local retail are common. Organized Crime’s Physical Retail Expansion .

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JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One of this year’s favorites so far, according to reports in The New York Times, has been fake retail and product apps popping up in the Apple App Store of late. We strive to offer customers the best experience possible, and we take their security very seriously,” said an Apple spokesman, Tom Neumayr.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

retailers instantaneously get funds for card transactions with actual fund availability depending on receiving bank and geographic area, according to a Thursday (Sept. EVO Payments noted a recent study determined 76 percent of polled Main Street SMBs said they had cash flow shortages over the last four months. 17) announcement.

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JUNE 19, 2016

On the EMV front, Home Depot decided it felt strongly enough about Chip and PIN that that it sue MasterCard and Visa over it.Walmart Canada decided it would stop accepting Visa cards since they say they are too expensive. And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk.

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JULY 23, 2018

Security is a complicated and thorny topic in payments and commerce, because it means different things to different consumers. But for different consumers, their main security worry isn’t about hackers – their problem is living paycheck to paycheck and figuring out how to become financially stable enough to feel financially secure.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Walgreens customers with eligible payment cards, starting this month, will now be able to access rewards programs to help pay for purchases they make in stores. The release says the Walgreens customers will now be able to use the option of paying with “points” from the FIS program after they've dipped, swiped or tapped their card.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Digitally native retailers are opening stores to bring their virtual experiences into the real world, and Zola is one of the latest merchants to test out the brick-and-mortar waters. The wedding retailer opened a store in New York City’s Flatiron District that is billed as a “one-stop-shop for wedding planning.”.

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But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. Lesson 1: Think Big . “We

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Facial authentication and cloud-based subscription services are particularly popular, with applications ranging from unlocking personal smartphones to providing secure access to top-secret government facilities. A multitude of security issues continue to plague the space, however, despite this optimistic future of digital identity.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The November/December Smarter Payments Tracker ® examines how firms are putting payroll apps and prepaid cards to use to resolve frictions for their global workforces. The workers can then use these cards to make retail payments in-stores and online, as well as collect cash at the ATM. Around The World Of Smarter Payments.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In the course of just three days, we’ve gone from Walmart the slumbering retail giant to Walmart the savvy retailer that’s now Amazon’s number one rival — one that’s even making Amazon sweat — well-positioned to challenge Amazon ’s retail rampage. Of course, the Amazon/Walmart rivalry has always made for good media sport.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

The leak involved 90,000 customers’ names, addresses and credit card numbers. “We take data protection and security very seriously and therefore do our utmost to investigate and solve the problem related to the operator of the specials platform in Germany,” a company spokeswoman said. The breach was first noticed on Aug.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Consumers might have felt a bit safer using their credit card with the introduction of EMV chip technology, but thieves looking to steal your information have managed to find a way to still gain access to PIN numbers, as well as your card’s chip in some cases. The majority of that theft was from credit cards. in 2016.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

With the holiday shopping season in the rear view, retailers across the globe are tallying up their wins and losses. While the holiday retail rush meant big gains for some retailers, it also came with an influx of fraud, both in-store and online, as fraudsters took advantage of a high-pace, high-volume period of transactions.

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JULY 13, 2016

Move over millennials , there’s a new kid in town that is about to become nearer and dearer to retailers’ hearts: Gen Z. These young shoppers want the store to fit three main criteria, too: They want it to be clean, they want staff that are “friendly and knowledgeable” and they want a “positive” checkout experience.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Primark, a European clothing dealer, has reported that credit card skimming equipment was found on “a limited number of card payment machines” in two of its U.S. It did, however, note that security was its main priority, as was transparently disclosing details as they emerge.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

percent had falsely claimed a charge on their credit card was fraudulent to score a refund. Retailers are devoting as much as 10 percent of their annual budgets to fraud prevention, as customers who have been scammed while patronizing a given store are far less likely to make a return visit. A survey found that 92 percent of U.S.

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MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. In terms of Walmart’s other efforts, the retailer is also focusing on features such as grocery pickup.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For retailers, the holiday season is both a busy and profitable time, but it’s also when cybercriminals seize the opportunity and target those increased retail revenues. Around The Security And Authentication Space . Fraudsters are using this data to pull off card-not-present (CNP) fraud schemes, such as account takeovers.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Out of the ever-growing list of things retailers have as priorities, stopping fraud — not selling more goods and services — has now claimed the online retailer’s top spot. That’s the finding of Forrester’s 2016 “State of Retail Payments 2016” report. Michael Reitblat , CEO of Forter , isn’t at all surprised.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Just about a decade ago, the checkout process at a retail shop was pretty simple — customers would wait in line to give their purchases to the cashier, who stood at a fixed point in the store, and then pay using cash or a credit card. Oh, how the times have changed.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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MARCH 14, 2020

With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. According to online security company Signal Sciences , eCommerce retailers deal with an average of 206,000 web attacks per month. The main offender, constituting 29.8

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. Main Street SMBs: The 18-Month Outlook. Main Street small- to medium-sized businesses’ (SMBs’) confidence of survival has progressed as the pandemic has continued. percent fewer Main Street SMBs are hopeful of survival.

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JUNE 16, 2019

The retail chain suffered through a register outage, but things apparently were getting back to normal as of Sunday evening (June 16). As well, there was no indication that the problem was due to hacking or a security breach. It wasn’t the best weekend for Target. Target was most recently in the news for digital advertising.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As a result, our eCommerce business is now approximately $1 billion in annualized retail sales, and we are well-positioned to capitalize on what is sure to be a dynamic future in this space,” Nooyi told investors. And the numbers in this regard don’t lie: Physical retail is growing at a rate of about 3.6

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