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Why Credit Unions Can’t Take Member Trust For Granted

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Chuck) Fagan weighed in on the sense of community CUs wield as a competitive advantage. When Webster asked what lies behind such loyalty, Fagan said the CUs have, in the past, focused their clientele outreach on select employee groups or individual employers, and — over an evolutionary period — have come to focus on specific communities.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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South Korea has 11 mobile payment services such as KakaoPay, Naver Pay and Samsung Pay, and around 28 million cards were loaded onto users’ smartphones in the second quarter. Samsung Pay provides gift cards from Dunkin’ Donuts, and users earn money with its own rewards prepaid card. billion won from the previous quarter.

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Ohio Lottery Makes A New Bet on Mobile

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Those card readers now accept payments via Visa , Mastercard , Discover , Apple Pay , Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Millennials, whom the company says do not provide a lot of foot traffic to retailers that sell lotto tickets. In September of last year, the state began putting payment card readers in all self-service lotto machines.

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Building A More Trustworthy eCommerce Marketplace

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The Federal Trade Commission found that millennial consumers are some of fraudsters’ favorite targets, and that online commerce losses for this group alone reached $71 million over the past two years. The badges assure community members that OfferUp has taken steps to evaluate participants’ trustworthiness.

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The Big Voice-AI Rundown: The Mid-Year State Of The Market

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This means firms with mobile phone ecosystems of their own — namely Google , Apple , Samsung and various Chinese manufacturers — still have the advantage when it comes to the installed base numbers (see chart to the right) and getting their AI products out in front of consumers. Rewards and loyalty schemes are way down on the list. “The

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Retail’s Inward Expansion

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Housing mini Sephora stores within the department store chain’s larger footprint has allowed the retailer to both attract a younger (read: millennial), more product-savvy beauty consumer, while introducing its core customers to new products and brands. As PYMNTS reported, on Jan. As PYMNTS reported, on Jan.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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Dream Exchange, which describes itself as the first minority-owned exchange in the world, intends to launch in 2021 and aims to create a more inclusive trading environment for smaller companies and empower minority communities. Michael Bumkeun Cho, portfolio manager at Samsung Asset Management. INITIAL COIN OFFERINGS.