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In Financial Services Innovation, Disruption Isn’t Everything

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Innovation is oxygen in payments. For financial services firms, innovation is spurring speed, killing friction and fostering loyalty among customers. That, itself, begs the question: What is innovation, really? explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.

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What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic

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When you look at the spending graphs for millennials at that time, debit was growing at twice the speed of credit, but the average order value was much lower, which correlates with the lower disposable income in the demographic at the time,” Molnar noted. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P.

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In Financial Services, Innovation Versus Inertia

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In an interview with PYMNTs after a webinar by the pair titled, “Financial Services Innovation — The Risk of New vs. Nothing,” John Epperson, principal at Crowe Horwath LLP, and Jason Henrichs, managing director at FinTech Forge , discussed the challenges and rewards of embracing change, even as firms are mindful of what works.

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EMV’s Delay Has Been The Convenience Store’s Innovation Gain

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It’s all but certain that gas stations will not achieve 100 percent compliance with EMV, in which case those that have not met the deadline will face higher interchange rates from the card networks. Such issues will have to be worked out over the next 12 months.

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Commanders In Chief: Why The Pace Of Innovation Is A Good Thing

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Dorchester said the pace of payments and security innovation has picked up significantly over the past five years — and that’s a good thing, as it generates new options for businesses to leverage the best of both worlds. Au contraire, said Dorchester: The current pace of innovation is the best thing that’s happened in payments for decades.

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Gearing Up For Payments Innovation, Short And Long Term

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In an interview with Karim Ahmad, TSYS executive vice president of global product and innovation, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster delved into the very nature of change, marking what once might have been a staid industry. I’m a pretty prosaic guy when it comes to … innovation,” said Ahmad.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

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A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.