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Samsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction

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With the rapid proliferation of shoppable social media channels – as well as the explosion of wearables, smart speakers and other connected devices, along with advances in voice-activated AI – for a growing cohort of consumers, contextual is just how they do commerce. The Three Pillars.

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Apple Pay Trending Up as Target, Other Retailers Add Payment Option

Bank Innovation

Apple Pay was trending across social media today on news the payment option will soon be accepted at Target, Taco Bell and other major U.S. According to Apple, 74 of the top 100 U.S. merchants now accept Apple Pay. The company touted the service’s ease of use, security and speed at the register. But […].

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Samsung Pay Crosses 1.3 Billion Transactions, But Falls Short of Apple Pay

Bank Innovation

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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The Big Questions For Mobile In 2017

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The only things we can confidently say about this year, predictions-wise, is that we will spend less time watching political debates on TV and more time getting drawn into them on social media. Well, it seems fairly clear at this point that, on their own, mobile payments aren’t causing consumers to ditch their cards.

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Happy 10th Anniversary iPhone

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And that growing spend, apart from being visible by the numbers, is also visible in falling foot traffic to physical retailers, as consumers are increasingly preferring to shop (and browse and price compare) with their phones, as opposed to physically appearing at the mall. That’s an estimated $1.3

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Innovation All the Time

Independent Banker

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. Retail offices: 85. But then again, Rockland Trust Co. is not typical. Alex Jimenez. Rockland Trust Co.

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Amazon HQ2, JPM Coin And The Weird, Wild Week Of Payments’ Left Turns

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The coin will not be for retail customers, and is currently being tested for internal use by institutional customers looking to move large sums of money. The surprising part of the announcement is perhaps the timing – two years ago, when everyone in retail and payments was pushing their own version of “Pay,” the news would have fit right in.

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