PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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MAY 16, 2019

Across the European Union (EU), technology providers and social media platforms are increasingly playing a bigger role in the Open Banking ecosystem. At the same time, however, many players, like Facebook and Google , are squaring off against regulators that are looking at their data and payment policies with more scrutiny.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Reveal Mobile, a leading innovator in monetizing location-based audience data, announced the launch of Social Direct, a platform that enables advertising agencies, retailers and brands to leverage location-based audience data for highly targeted social media campaigns.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as part of the agency’s antitrust investigation into the popular social media giant, CNBC reported. Critics have called Facebook out before on privacy issues, usually dealing with how users’ data is disseminated for advertising or other means.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Craig Ramsey , head of real-time payments at ACI Worldwide, said the point of the new partnership and innovations is to keep up with innovation in the payments sphere worldwide.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Crypto market a perfect environment for fraud. There are several reasons why cryptocurrency markets allow fraud to flourish: There is no bank or centralized authority to flag suspicious transactions and attempt to stop fraud before it happens, as there is with fiat currency. Growing popularity.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that breaking up big tech companies like Facebook and Google should be seen as a last resort, and that the better idea might be to find a way to regulate data usage. Businesses that are built and invested in and become successful because of their innovation.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

As the calendar turned to January, banks rolled out new ways for both commercial and corporate banking clients to conduct business by tapping the potential of several new financial innovations. Technological innovations are also bringing changes to the lending market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Social media is taking a lot of fire these days, whether the issue is “fake news” or data privacy or just the time-wasting tendencies of many users. But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

And, as America found out what actually happens when the wrong name gets read on stage, PwC found out what happens when Twitter decides to rename your firm — as our CEO (and former PwC employee) Karen Webster told those assembled at the Innovation Project’s annual awards dinner last night. And the winners are… Best POS Innovation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2019

BIS said that the social media firm’s recent announcement that it aims to roll out its Libra digital currency and grow into payments has focused the minds of central bankers as well as regulators, Reuters reported. The Bank of England approaches Libra with an open mind but not an open door,” Carney said, per a Reuters report. “The

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Perficient

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Find ways to be very relevant when you target and market to your existing and future customers. Take advantage of the customer activity data to power your marketing and personalization engines. Retailers can use multiple ways of communication such as emails, text, and social media. Communication is Key.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

So far this year (and there’s still one more day), Verizon reported that there have been 2,216 confirmed data breaches across 65 countries. For example, Marriott , Facebook and a database marketing firm by the name of Exactis exposed the records of roughly 300 million people. According to early reports, the data breach impacted 0.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

Short for the Revised Payment Service Directive, PSD2 lifts banks’ total claim on customer account data and payment activities. But controversy surrounds the fact that banks shall be able to deny this by offering instead a proprietary API to their platforms for data sharing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

Only 13 percent say they’re willing to jump on the innovation bandwagon. According to Office Depot senior director of contract marketing, Christine Nessen, “SMBs should strongly consider transitioning to tax software.”. Viewpost CEO Max Eliscu said these figures aren’t surprising, though, but still called the data “staggering.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Facebook reported a 51 percent spike in its costs and expenses for the full year 2019 — that increase coming as the social media platform faces more questions from regulators and policymakers about its present and planned endeavors. 29), and reported that total costs and expenses hit some $46.71

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Banks are jostling for space in the market because an expanding number of FinTechs and large-scale technology companies are competing for the same set of consumers. FIs that are reliant on data caches that are just a year old are at a distinct disadvantage, not only for fraud protection, but also for successful onboarding.

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JULY 24, 2018

It’s easy to imagine the appeal: Transferring loyalty program data from one grocer to another, moving image data from a social media site to an online photo-printing service, retaining access to music playlists after leaving a website with weak privacy protections or other flaws. Data Control. DTP Development.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

T-shirts may seem like a simple product, but according to Spreadshirt, there is a ton of hard data and analytics at the core of even the softest shirt. Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

While this is unfortunate for some, it may be motivation for other retailers to come up with more innovative ways to reach consumers. In today’s world, where the retail environment has already changed so significantly, innovation is more important than ever,” said Levy. “It It used to be that if you built a store, customers would come.

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Social Assurance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Social media usage has undergone significant changes in 2020. Tried-and-true” practices of social media may no longer be as effective as they once were. Facebook advertising , in particular, has undergone some innovations and, with its usage only growing more popular , it’s important to be up-to-date on its latest trends.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

About 40 percent of CPOs said they have a clear digital strategy, which includes efforts like digital reporting and data analytics, for their processes. Mobile technologies were cited by 42 percent of executives as a key strategy for customer engagement, just shy of the 45 percent that said the same of cloud technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Call it the Great Trade-Off, perhaps: Consumers give up data to online merchants and marketers in exchange for free services, targeted offers, discounts and other benefits. The people and companies who receive the data use it for a variety of profit-enhancing tasks.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

It’s beginning to feel like two kids talking smack in a high school hallway — except, in this case, billions of dollars are involved, along with issues of privacy and innovation. technological might when it comes to social media, eCommerce and the digital world. Don’t worry, though — the Americans can give as good as they get.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

La Ligne is often described as one of the quieter players in the space – though recently they’ve raised an undisclosed sum in their second round of fundraising in two-and-a-half years, and for the first time is looking to make a larger investment in marketing and social media penetration.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

But updating your phone plan, adding some extra gigabytes of data or activating a roaming plan while abroad? This is out of touch with the way it should be,” said ItsOn Vice President of Technical Sales and Marketing Robert Oberhofer. Imagine you are traveling for business and forgot to call your carrier prior for a roaming data plan.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Data analytics is not a new pursuit. But owing to the inherent complexity of advanced data analytics platforms, experience with data analytics has been the domain of only the largest organizations. Well, that depends on what you mean by data analytics. Is Your Organization Data-Driven? But are they?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap an even more difficult challenge. At the root of the matter is often a lack of predictive data to ascertain the creditworthiness of these small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Open banking—where banks expose their data, functions and services to an ecosystem of customers, employees, third-party developers and vendors—has been hotly anticipated in Europe. The drive towards open banking gives them a direct line into a potentially lucrative market. 1] Accenture Research Analysis on CB Insights data.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Bank-backed Zelle is valuable to banks for its P2P service and the market data it gathers from working with multiple FIs. Zelle has dedicated a department to customer listening, Ravi Loganathan, chief data officer at Early Warning Services LLC, the company behind Zelle, told Bank Innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But he also warned that “before breaking them up, we should see whether they are not just disrupted by a small player beating them out of the market, but by the market shifting, by the interest going somewhere else.”. Apple , Microsoft , Amazon , Google and Facebook have a combined market capitalization of $3.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

The pullback of banks from the small business lending space left a gap filled by alternative lenders who are exploring new ways to connect entrepreneurs with capital, a journey that includes innovation and a bit of experimentation. “Lenders’ primary goal is to assess a consumer’s stability, ability and willingness to pay.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

From up-and-coming players like Beautycounter and Glossier to more prominent companies like Estee Lauder and Clinique, the beauty market is increasingly oversaturated with both old and new options. We do that by focusing on integration between eCommerce sites, social media and marketing efforts, and the stores and boutiques we own.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

In the August edition of the Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook , PYMNTS examines how marketplaces are using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile payments to innovate the customer experience. In other markets, the rise of marketplaces is giving old organizations new perspective.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Garmin Pay brings us one step further in delivering secure and convenient payment innovations.”. Garmin’s newest collection of vívomove hybrid smartwatches features a host of innovations, including health and fitness data along with text message notifications.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Amid the data privacy -related headlines that have been dominating Facebook ’s existence as of late, the company is carrying through with its efforts to expand in India, where the social media giant is moving into payments. The platform, then, would underscore commitment to the market there, with its 2.1 billion users.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Fortunately, it appears the recreational market is getting some much-needed innovation to help organizations and associations process payments and participant registration. One company that is innovating in the sports and recreation industry is Amilia, an online registration and membership management platform. In the U.S.,

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