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The Retail Revolution Frontline Gets Real

PYMNTS

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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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

PYMNTS

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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Open Banking Can Scale With Incentives And API Aggregation

PYMNTS

In a discussion with Karen Webster, Samuel-Ogbu talked about the role of API aggregation and how incentives can help to ignite open banking, one of the main efforts now taking place in the world of payments and commerce. And using this payment method could help save merchants money, given the high cost of card payments.

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FIs Most Underutilized Asset: Their Apps

PYMNTS

This is true even for routine transactions, such as transferring money to friends and relatives or making retail payments. So what can financial institutions (FIs) do to improve their apps’ user experience (UX), and will making these changes help boost adoption and usage? percent, 25.5 percent and 28.9

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

PYMNTS

It’s the decoupled debit card. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards. Inspired, retailers set out to develop their own products with those same benefits: debit functionality, rich consumer rewards and a lower interchange fee burden when consumers used them to shop their stores. And what was the product?

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PayPal’s Real-Time Bank Transfers (And What They Mean For The Ecosystem)

PYMNTS

Yesterday, PayPal announced news that soon, Venmo and PayPal users will be able to send money transfers via its mobile app in a heartbeat to anyone they want — and have the receiver access and use those funds — in a heartbeat — anywhere that Visa and Mastercard debit cards are accepted. So, anywhere. The Power of Ubiquity.

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The Mobile Banking and Payments Summit – Impressions from Day 2

Celent Banking

The day focused mostly on mobile wallets, with a few main points shared below: Mobile wallets have been challenged by industry barriers : The old rule of thumb with a payments scheme is that it needs to please three parties: the merchant, the bank, and the consumer. I was only able to attend the final day, but it didn’t disappoint.

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