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Innovative Approaches To Retail And PCI Compliance

PYMNTS

And in payments innovation, tokenization and data vaulting take the sting out of payment card industry (PCI) compliance. In consumer spending, Amazon and Walmart are pushing to capture the electronics portion of the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck. All this, Today in Data.

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Compliance spend may take toll on fintechs

Bank Innovation

Lenders have had to spend unprecedented funds on compliance in the first quarter, which could shift resource allocation at banks and credit unions and hamper post-pandemic fintech partnerships.

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What’s your Bank’s Technology and Innovation Budget?

Bank Innovation

Innovation is expensive. And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart.

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What’s your Bank’s Technology and Innovation Budget?

Bank Innovation

Innovation is expensive. And for banks, making sure regulatory and security compliance is met on each technology undertaking only makes those costs larger. But innovation is a must for banks, who are not only competing with fintechs like neobanks, PFMs, and payment companies, but also with the likes of Amazon, Google, and even Walmart.

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Red Hat: Innovating Payments The Open Source Way

PYMNTS

Simply put, the back-office systems are ill-equipped to handle the demands of technological innovation, especially as financial services cross channels. The Challenges Of Multi-Channel Payment Innovation. For many firms, with legacy infrastructure that has been in place for decades, scale becomes difficult.

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From Cash Registers To Curbside, Innovation Continues To Drive NCR’s Digital-First Journey

PYMNTS

And according to Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of digital banking at NCR , simplicity and innovation have turned what could have been a disastrous year into a transformational pivot for the better. Tackling those tougher problems to simplify things — and that’s true in banking, retail and restaurants.”.

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Why Smartphones Are The Biggest Payments Innovator

PYMNTS

Innovation is happening at the speed of payments — which, as it turns out, can be pretty fast these days. OA: As president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, I oversee our global person-to-person money transfer via our combined digital and retail walk-in agent network that connects more than 200 countries and territories.