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JULY 23, 2020

40%: Share of ATMs that run on Windows XP, which no longer receives security upgrades from Microsoft. 72%: Increase in FinTech app usage in Q1 2020. 50%: Decline in automated teller machine (ATM) use since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 10: Number of categories of livestreaming shows on Popshop. $3M:

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AUGUST 13, 2020

By comparison, the first 3-D Secure (3DS) technology provides consumers with a user experience marked by lengthy times for processing and verification. The company reports that retailers selling through eCommerce are experiencing record sales numbers, but fraud rates are also on the uptick. Merchants pay $3.13

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Retailers are facing a personalization paradox. Fifty-three percent of consumers want retailers to respect their anonymity in 2020; at the same time 61 percent want more personalization in marketing, messaging and promotions. That paradox is evident between the appeal of personalization and a stepped-up need for privacy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Hudson Group plans to add Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology to some of the popular convenience stores the chain operates at more than 1,000 North American airports, train stations and other landmarks and tourist destinations. . Checkout-Less Retail Is Becoming A Reality . Checkout-Less Retail Is Becoming A Reality .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2016

In the recent instance of the XSS security vulnerabilities that befell the online shopping cart Zen Cart, for example, the company acted quickly to solve its own problem. But the fact is that things don’t always sort themselves out, effectively, in the retail security game. Sometimes, that assumption is accurate.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Founded in 2007 by Miles and John Perry, who serves as chief executive officer, Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization payment and data security. . Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Verizon and Microsoft have teamed up to accelerate the delivery of private 5G networks for businesses, announcing a collaboration they said will transform the retail, transportation, logistics, manufacturing and healthcare industries.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Many businesses, including French sporting goods retailer Decathlon , which has 1,647 stores worldwide and two in the U.S., QR codes are key because they are a bridge between our system and the customers’ phones,” Tony Leon , Decathlon’s chief technology and eCommerce officer, said in a recent interview with PYMNTS. “The

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

They may enjoy strolling the aisles of physical retail, but many customers still want support features that enable them to quickly and easily find and buy items, through self-serve offerings and other automation technologies. The June Automated Retail Tracker charts all the latest developments and deployments of these models and more.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Retail giant Walmart is teaming up with delivery solutions startup HomeValet to launch a test pilot that would bring fresh groceries to people’s homes even if they’re not there. “If The smart box technology will provide the delivery driver with secure access to the box. Delivery is secure and contactless and will stay fresh.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers. While the pharmacy retailer had slowly brought the functionality to its brick-and-mortar stores, the rollout was subsequently publicized.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management. and India, alternative small business lending technology company CreditEnable has revealed a $2 million seed round, according to Inc42 reports. With headquarters in both the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

retail jewelry industry. Goldiam now hopes to make new avenues in its digital push, securing more business on better payment terms and a better margin profile, the report says. On Friday, Goldiam's stocks were trading in the green, an India Infoline report said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

With social distancing currently a top priority of retailers in the current environment, a supplier of shopper engagement and loss prevention technologies has flipped the script, now making devices that heighten real-time awareness of social distancing in retail stores.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. Fraudsters are just as excited by this opportunity as merchants, unfortunately, making it essential for these retailers to craft robust protections to keep the data and the payment information of their consumers safe. Why Automated Tools Can Add Security To Online, CNP Transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Social Security Administration, for example, requires recipients using its website to provide unique eight-digit codes sent via text to their smartphones in addition to their usernames and passwords when they sign up or log in. . It also outlines some of the frictions entities face when doing so. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. Restaurants and retailers will be able to process in-store payments and personalize readers with their own branding. .

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). The basic idea behind LISNR is to send data securely via audio. Customer Journey. That’s the tech part.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

billion connected devices in use worldwide, the appetite for IoT is only growing, with the technology being put to use beyond consumer products. Cities around the globe are looking to use the technology to address problems, such as by leveraging connected sensors to detect and report water system leakages. With more than 8.6

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Bank Innovation

MAY 2, 2018

Security and fraud risk remain the top priority for retail banks seeking to update their payments infrastructure, a study released this week by ACI WorldWide and Ovum found.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

The smart technology field continues to be hampered by security issues even as solutions in the space are put to use in many cases. In pet technology news, Pawscout is helping owners find their wayward pets with a Bluetooth-enabled tag as pet retail becomes a fierce battleground. All this, Today In Data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

And that actually creates a massive opportunity for retailers of all kinds to jump into the digital market, he said, and grab some market share away from giants like Amazon that have been hit by an onslaught of orders. Retailers, merchants are realizing they can actively utilize those channels because for a lot of them it’s survival.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. The Changing Retail Footprint. As unattended retail notches an increasing footprint, said Byrne, other use cases will also emerge.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Separate research indicates that 51 percent of holiday shoppers will hold their FIs, payment processors and retailers responsible if they experience fraud. FIs must thus find ways to shore up such weak points if they wish to keep their customers loyal and secure. The Technology Gap That Fosters Fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Thus, IoT security is becoming an essential part of modern conversations. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and data security and privacy practice chair of D.C.-based A lot of the devices we’re talking about have no security. They weren’t built with security in mind, and there really isn’t any way to patch them.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Dispatching one of New York’s elite styling teams exemplifies the new face of “ clienteling ,” the retail practice of assigning sales associates to individual, high-value customers. The practice enables retailers to go above and beyond standard customer service at a time when that extra mile is sorely needed.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. And that’s why some researchers and mobile technology observers are sounding what amounts to preemptive alarm about 5G.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In the modern age of retail, a National Retail Federation (NRF) study has found that inventory loss, due to crime or error, is having a $46.8 percent of sales to retailers, Forbes reported. According to the survey from the NRF and the University of Florida, 41 percent of polled retailers noted a rise in their inventory shrink.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

The technology in question “can be used for facial analysis or sentiment analysis, which identifies different expressions and predicts emotions from images of people’s faces. There was no direct, immediate indication that the technology — and this new advance — would have retail or payment implications anytime soon.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Visa announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is rolling out enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, a global solution designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account. As part of the upgrade, Visa said it was enhancing its systems to support 3-D Secure 2.0,

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