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Guaranty Bank uses account-switching tool to promote new branches

Bank Innovation

Guaranty Bank and Trust is using new technology to make it easier for potential new customers to switch bank accounts as it expands its branch network. The Mount Pleasant, Texas-based bank has added eight new locations over the past year in locations like Fort Worth and Dallas.

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How J.Crew, H&M, Others Push Hard On Payments Innovation, Loyalty

PYMNTS

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. The clothing retailer is hardly alone, as 85 percent of merchants say that they innovate to stay competitive, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , while 77 percent say they use it to drive sales.

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How Airport Accommodations Tap Into Mobile Technology (And Sleep)

PYMNTS

While new concepts such as sleeping pods and capsule hotels are coming on the scene today, Minute Suites was founded in the late 2000s with the company offering rooms with sofa beds at busy airports across the United States such as Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW). Hospitality Innovations.

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How Auto Sales Are Driving New Retail Trends

PYMNTS

The online marketplace company wants to eventually be able to use AI technology on descriptions, where a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the description. Financing is also part of the new wave of innovation in this area. New Financing.

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Target Experiments With New Loyalty Program

PYMNTS

However, through the free new program available in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, shoppers can take 1 percent off purchases and put it toward future visits at Target — without having to use a Target-branded credit card. As a result, almost a quarter of all Target purchases are now made with a Target REDcard.

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Fast Casual Saladworks Gets Fresh With New Locations And Restaurant Tech

PYMNTS

Saladworks also plans to plant corporate stores in key markets in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas over the next six to 12 months. Furthermore, the corporate stores will serve as a trial run for new ideas in restaurant technology and operational flow to increase efficiency.

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FinCEN Steps up Efforts to Protect Against the Six Biggest Threats to the U.S. Financial System

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Financial criminals are working hard, using technology and innovation to their advantage, to stay one step ahead of FinCEN and financial institutions. He further stated that we must be responsible with such innovation. At the recent NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement , FinCEN Director Kenneth A.

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