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Visa: SoftPOS Helps Merchants 'Reimagine' Commerce Flows In A Physical World

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At a high level, SoftPOS – short for software point of sale – lets merchants take contactless payments across their own mobile devices and tablets. SoftPOS marks a sea change from the hardware-bound, hard-wired nature of checkout, and from dedicated POS terminals registered and linked to dongles. Leveling The Playing Field.

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Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars

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At a high level, most CBDCs can be issued in an environment where each country can “go it alone,” said Cunha, confining the digital coins to domestic use in a bid to (partially or completely) dislodge cash. There may a sea change ahead for currencies as we know it — or it all may come to naught.

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How Top Performing FIs Navigate The Corporate Card Seas

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Opportunity, however, is almost impossible to take on without risk — and for FIs, even the relatively blue ocean environment of corporate cards can become quickly turbulent. Navigating the Corporate Credit Seas. On some level, he noted, every organization has to take some kind of risk, because doing nothing is not an option.

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21 Predictions About Digital Health in 2021: Part IV

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While a good amount of that adoption remains subject to a (still) imperfect reimbursement environment, the sheer demand aligned with increasing comfort will be a major factor in 2021. PREDICTION : Once the world opens, there will be a sea change of movement and suddenly onboarding new patients, doctors, members, systems, etc.

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OCC Requests Feedback on Principles of Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Banks

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Physical risks encompass harm to people and property from climate-related events such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and shifts in climate including higher temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and ocean acidification.

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Retail’s Abysmal Week: Will Liquidation Sales Follow?

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“Both were already suffering from bloated debt levels that left them little able to respond to the sweeping changes in American retail over the past two decades, including the rise of eCommerce and the migration of young people from the suburbs to cities after the financial crisis,” the report notes. “In They would socialize.

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Fraud Decisioning Goes Omnichannel

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But in a period of utter financial disruption and confusion, fraudsters see a veritable playground of access points and theft opportunities in omnichannel environments. Consumers now demand choice, flexibility and convenience in banking, and that’s what omnichannel offers.

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