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Virtual Reality Gains Traction In Retail

PYMNTS

Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. The eCommerce operator hopes to increase purchases of furniture online via a recently launched feature dubbed Amazon Showroom that takes advantage of virtual reality tools.

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Enterprise Security Returns To Top Of B2B Investment Mountain

PYMNTS

Linking financial institutions and corporates with its Banking-as-a-Service platform, ONPEX enables FIs to deploy cloud-based account and payment technology to digitize operations and enhance their cross-border corporate payment offerings. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California.

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Banks Slow to Embrace Realtime Payments

Bank Innovation

Wrong, according Vinay Prabhakar, head of markets strategy, Payments at Finastra. EXCLUSIVE – When The Clearing House (TCH) rolled out realtime payments last November, one would think banks would quickly jump on that bandwagon, right? The problem, as it often is with big institutions, comes down to the bottom line. "We

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Ally Financial Has Milennials to Thank for Its Impressive Retail Deposit Growth

Bank Innovation

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Ally Financial Inc.’s Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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Neutralizing The Clash Of The B2B Buyer And Supplier Titans

PYMNTS

It’s also a useful way to describe the competing interests and mindsets of buyers and suppliers when making decisions about innovating the B2B payments and procurement process. For some MSTS customers, credit as a service can be leveraged to expand their market share and enhance customer service. trillion is the net amount U.S.

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What’s Trending So Far In 2016

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Read on for what they happen to say about the state of their businesses and the local economies in which they operate. Online Checkout Conversion. To add insult to injury here, the Census Bureau’s accounting for online sales as a percentage of retail sales may not be keeping up with the reality of what consumers are doing.

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Sometimes It Takes A Bagel

PYMNTS

Every innovator can point to something that stirred up their passions for changing the world and working 100 hours a week to make their vision a reality. Even as early as 1999, Villante observed that many of the people he knew were already paying their bills online, all except for one — their largest payment every month: their rent payment.

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