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Getting real about real-time payments in the United States

Accenture

Working directly with our financial services clients on strategic, operational and technical issues, he is on the front lines of the evolution of real-time payments. Instant payments are also top-of-mind as customer experience becomes the currency of competitiveness in retail and commercial payments. Playing catch-up.

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How CFOs approach tech spend

BankInovation

Major banks in the United States are increasing tech investment for added efficiencies and frictionless digital experiences — which has become the consumer’s expectation since the pandemic.

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Retail Pulse: Toys R Us Returns With Small Retail Stores

PYMNTS

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Online Retailers Face New Threats From Hackers

PYMNTS

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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WHSmith To Acquire Marshall Retail Group

PYMNTS

WHSmith has revealed it will acquire Marshall Retail Group (MRG) in an effort to boost its presence in U.S. Founded in 1792, WHSmith has operations in over 100 airports across 30 countries outside the U.K. MRG currently operates more than 170 locations across the United States, with 70 of those locations operating inside airports.

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Revolutionizing the Way We Pay: The Top Payment Industry Trends You Need to Know in 2023

Perficient

All of Instagram’s shopping features allow users to add items from multiple vendors into an Instagram-operated cart. Perficient specializes in strategizing and engineering seamless point-of-sale and embedded finance experiences for businesses across industries. million this year and 94.4 million in 2024.

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Retail Pulse: Chipotle Mexican Grill Unveils Alexa Skill; Kroger Goes Back To Basics

PYMNTS

Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. 30 of this year in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.). “We In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Kroger Co.

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