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JUNE 29, 2016

A lot of millennials are still living at home with their parents, but as more and more of them begin moving out in the coming years, they could have a significant impact on both the housing and rental markets. Many millennials – defined in the study as adults currently between 25 to 34 years old – are still living with their parents due to a series of economic factors, but as they start to age and move out on their own the number of millennial households is expected to swell by about 2 million n

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JUNE 7, 2016

A new mobile app from identity theft protection company IDShield was released on Monday (June 6) and aims to help consumers by putting information and control in their hands when it comes to safeguarding against identity theft threats. IDShield said its all-new app will feature up-to-date and comprehensive identity monitoring information, as well as access to a private investigator if issues do arise for a user.

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JUNE 27, 2016

In the mood for a little role play today? Your head of product walks into your office with his end of quarter report for one of your flagship services. This service was positioned as a critical feature in driving demand for other products and services in the company’s portfolio. It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Mobile technology, already a fixture in consumers’ daily lives, is having a major impact on the retail industry. Merchants are turning to mobile technology in the form of mPOS platforms in order to better serve and connect with their customers and make sure those customers return. To discuss how mobile, full-service payments solutions are impacting retailers, for this month’s Tracker cover story, PYMNTS caught up with executives from CardFlight, Retail Pro and ShopKeep, as well as with Jordan Mc

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JUNE 23, 2016

Fraudsters always seem to be one step ahead of both the consumers and businesses they target. They have the uncanny ability to slip in unnoticed, wreak havoc and essentially walk away unscathed (and paid). Though victims of fraud attacks may never be able to beat cybercriminals at their own game, it’s clear that knowledge is power. As Don Bush, VP of Marketing at Kount , recently told Karen Webster , knowing what’s coming can better prepare you to defend yourself. “If you don’t know

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JUNE 1, 2016

Like most people, I still make the majority of my purchases with credit cards. But the one place I’ve always used my phone to pay has been Starbucks. Why did I never think twice before using the Starbucks mobile app to pay for all my purchases there? For the same reasons that it has become one of the most popular mobile payments experiences in the world — it was easy to use, accepted at most Starbucks, and had a rewarding loyalty program.

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JUNE 22, 2016

The state of cash in Western Europe is at a crossroads with the rapid development of mobile technology. While several European countries show positive growth in cash usage, there are some that are on track to become cash-free. The PYMNTS.com Global Cash Index™, powered by Cardtronics, uncovers the changing dynamics of the state of cash in Western Europe and the projected effect of the impending Brexit vote on cash usage.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Visa is the first to admit that a lot of progress has been made in the U.S. EMV migration over the last seven months. Today, there are 300 million chip cards in circulation and 1.2 million EMV merchant locations. It’s also the first to say that there could and should be more places for consumers to use their chip cards. Terminal certification has, so far, been a big barrier to making that possible, and the hue and cry across the ecosystem over the EMV certification backlog has now reached

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JUNE 23, 2016

[link]. When you think FinTech, many words come to mind — startups, disruption, innovation, consumer-centric — but there’s also regulation. It can be seen as one of the biggest headaches facing FinTechs today and is considered a significant barrier to entry. On average, approximately 20 percent of a FinTech’s operational costs are dedicated to the governance and compliance area.

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JUNE 21, 2016

The movement by small and midsized businesses to fully accept and work with electronic payments has been a gradual one, and one that has been marked by concerns surrounding costs. Firms have tread cautiously with respect to electronic payments, with costs dominating the argument against transitioning. After all, it does take time and money to bring accounting systems up to speed and to enable platforms to deal with processing fees tied to transactions.

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Visa just rolled out the next generation of payments wearables: an NFC-enabled payment ring. And it’s bringing it to the Olympics for the Visa-sponsored athletes to use at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This is the first prototype of its kind to be backed by Visa. These NFC payment rings will be used by all Team Visa athletes in Rio, along with 45 Olympic hopefuls from around the world.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Russell Moore, Director of Innovation at TSYS , agrees that it’s been misused in a myriad of ways, but feels that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies offer merchants the chance to view payment processing in a new way. He gives PYMNTS a different take on the use of cryptocurrencies in payments. PYMNTS: What is the biggest misconception about bitcoin and digital currencies in terms of the payments processing perspective?

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JUNE 9, 2016

Amazon’s move to kill its bike delivery program for its Prime Now service in Seattle, Washington, has left its bicycle messengers disheartened. The Prime Now service, which was originally launched in New York City in late 2014, was expanded to Seattle in August last year after its initial success. Despite growing demand for the service, the company decided to put a kibosh on bike deliveries for Prime Now without giving much notice to its partner messengers.

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JUNE 20, 2016

At the start of the year, I wrote a piece that outlined six trends that I suggested would set the agenda for payments innovation and commerce reinvention in 2016. The foundation for those six trends was the ability for innovators to leverage the near ubiquity of mobile devices and the ability to connect those devices – and many others – to the internet.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Complainants in a Nevada lawsuit are accusing the owners of what’s believed to be a fake payments processing company of stealing millions of dollars from an online seller. That seller is beauty product retailer DermaKtive, which claims that a man committed fraud with the assistance of his mother and girlfriend. This fraud reportedly involved using what was believed to be payment processing for credit and debit card transactions, along with refunds.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Hear the words “factory floor” and the image of assembly lines and the manufacturing of physical products immediately comes to mind. Not anymore – or at least not when the Visa Commerce team uses those words. The Visa team, according to SVP of Issuer Processing, Todd Brockman, has been hard at work on the “apps factory floor” creating the Visa Digital Commerce App , an issuer-branded mobile commerce solution that will allow financial institutions to customize and deliver their own branded mobil

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JUNE 14, 2016

Gas stations offer a lot of benefits for card fraudsters. They’re unattended, which makes it easy (and even inconspicuous) for them to check out whether their counterfeit cards are alive and well and ready to use. Recognizing that problem for station owner/operators, in 2014, Visa introduced the Visa Transaction Advisor (VTA) to help these retailers fight back, especially given the anticipated lag in equipping fuel pumps with EMV readers.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Amazon has already done its part to disrupt one aspect of the educational industry by opening up the previously narrow textbook resale market. However, Amazon’s education division has even bigger plans for the classroom itself. Amazon announced Monday (June 27) that it had officially launched Amazon Inspire, a free digital learning resource platform intended to help teachers locate and leverage materials appropriate for every age level when designing lessons plans or during classroom activ

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Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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JUNE 23, 2016

American Express has announced changes to its EMV chargeback policy in order to ease the transition as merchants migrate their POS systems to be EMV-compliant. This move is aimed at helping merchants limit their fraud losses, and as of the end of August of this year, merchants will not be liable for counterfeit fraud chargebacks for any transaction under $25.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Until very recently, grocery was easily viewable as a static category in the United States. An extremely important one — since it is one of the few absolutely necessary categories that one can count on pretty much all consumers to spend in — but a fairly predictable one because of all that built-in necessity. Which meant for a long time much of grocery looked and felt very much the same.

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JUNE 24, 2016

In this week’s edition of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we head back to Europe to explore Germany’s “startup capital” and learn about the thriving ecosystem where a new startup is born every 20 minutes. . Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about Berlin, Germany and its tech scene: Berlin has an estimated population of 3.5 million, with nearly 40 percent of the city’s residents being under the age of 35.

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JUNE 20, 2016

It’s been a tough road on the way to EMV terminal deployment here in the U.S. The move has been complicated by the combination of most merchants getting a very late start to the EMV process – the Target breach was what many merchants considered their official starting line despite announcements by the card networks years earlier – and a complicated certification process that’s been tough for some merchants to navigate.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Silicon Valley has the banking industry in its crosshairs. Hardly a day, hardly even a nanosecond, goes by without a VC, entrepreneur, or tech media pundit claiming that some Internet-something-or-other is going to take out the stodgy financial services industry. It’s even gone mainstream: Lesley Stahl’s breathless “60 Minutes” interview with the 20-something Stripe founders ends with the anchor exclaiming , “Oh!

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JUNE 30, 2016

Walmart wants to add $250 billion worth of Made in the USA products to its stores by 2023, an ambitious plan the retail giant says will add 1 million new American-based manufacturing and support jobs as well. Walmart held its fourth annual U.S. Manufacturing Summit at its Arkansas headquarters this week, inviting hundreds of companies, suppliers and entrepreneurs to discuss how it was going to find and support more American products and manufacturers and accept new American manufactured product

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JUNE 3, 2016

Is bitcoin making a comeback? Oh, if we had a bitcoin for every time we’ve heard that question. Actually, that would be pretty difficult to calculate how much we’d actually have in real dollars since its price trend is so volatile. Every time bitcoin shoots above the $500 mark, the digital currency world starts buzzing about why bitcoin is here to stay and why it’s going to shoot above the $600 mark soon.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow, goes the old saying. And, in payments, there are a slew of providers clamoring for the chance to get in on the ground floor with those little acorns so that – as they become those mighty oaks – they are able to ride the growth curve along with them. There’s only one problem: Many services providers who are great at catering to the little acorns can’t accommodate their needs on the way up to becoming the mighty oaks.

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Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

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JUNE 16, 2016

It’s getting harder for financial institutions to distinguish between fraudulent activity and the activity performed by their legitimate customers. According to research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International , released on Tuesday (June 14), nearly 38 percent of financial organizations find it very difficult to tell if a customer’s account activity is fraudulent or not.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Retailers are struggling to keep tabs on shoplifters who are increasingly becoming their top source of loss, averaging $377 per incidence, up $60 from the year before. At 39 percent, shoplifting was found to be the biggest contributor among factors that led to overall inventory shrinkage in 2015 causing a $45.2 billion loss across the United States, according to NRF’s 2016 National Retail Security survey.

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JUNE 29, 2016

About a year ago “buy buttons” were all the rage as the next big thing in social commerce. The logic was sound – social media platforms are full of users who are talking about, reviewing and sharing products of all shapes and sizes. Why not embed a button that makes them able to convert – on the spot – while they are looking/thinking/talking about whatever it is?

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JUNE 10, 2016

Speaking at a trade conference in Chicago earlier this week, Facebook’s Head of U.S. E-Commerce Jeremy Lewis made his pitch for mobile for retailers, saying that it’s no longer optional because it is undeniably the future. “Mobile isn’t a thing. It’s the thing,” Lewis said. “Every company needs to invest heavily in mobile.”. Lewis went on to explain that to date, developers are handing in 1,000 new mobile apps for iOS and Android every single day — and those apps are coming out becau

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