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Why Backend Orchestration is the True Payment Experience Unlock

Retail TouchPoints

When it comes to the “pipes” for electronic payments, last year saw an exciting advancement in the form of real-time payments (RTP). Federal Reserve Bank launched its own RTP network, called FedNow. With ACH [the dominant electronic banking network used today] you have settlement risks, you have latency.

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How Integrated POS Tech is Helping Electronics Retailers

iVend

Statistics from the US show that for the last two years, retail stores have been the place where Americans find themselves spending most time waiting in line – in fact, they spend more time queuing in retail stores than in restaurants, pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and banks combined.

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Why Curacao ‘Zags’ When Other Retailers ‘Zig’ — and How This Drives its Success

Retail TouchPoints

This California-based retailer serves Hispanic communities with a large but carefully curated product selection and a surprisingly wide range of services — wide enough that the company is at least as much a bank as it is a retailer. We’re a lender and a bank that has a retail company attached to it.

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JP Morgan Chase launches new digital bank brand in the UK

365 Retail

A new digital bank brand offering cashback and money management features has been launched in the UK by JP Morgan Chase. A new digital banking brand called Chase, offering cashback and money management features, has been launched in the UK by JP Morgan Chase (Yui Mok/PA).

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Monese Review (July 2022): Is it The Best Alternative to Revolut?

Ecommerce Platforms

For example, maybe you've split your banking across different online platforms depending on the use case, such as day-to-day transactions, savings, or investments? With that in mind, today, we’re focusing on one digital banking option: Monese. It’s a digital banking platform as well as a money transfer service. per withdrawal.

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CES 2021 Highlights: COVID-Accelerated Innovations, 5G and Privacy Issues Dominate

Retail TouchPoints

Exhibiting companies included tech giants such as Intel, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics and Sony, as well as tech-adjacent organizations ranging from AARP to Bridgestone, Caterpillar, Indy Autonomous Challenge, John Deere, L’Oréal, Moen and Procter & Gamble.

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Risks and Rewards

Retail TouchPoints

Buy now, pay later is short-term financing that allows people to buy everyday items like home goods, electronics and clothes in low to no interest monthly installments — and receive the goods immediately. Which is great news for consumers who are unabashed fans of buy now, pay later, also called BNPL.