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Zuckerberg Tells Congress That Libra Fills A Global Payments Void

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Zuckerberg said in his opening remarks that those who do not have access to bank accounts “could through mobile phones, if the right system existed.” By afternoon, it was unclear just how Libra might help solve that problem, as some lawmakers noted that citizens who lack bank accounts may not actually trust banks.

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Apple Pay And A Decade Of Innovation Top Payments News This Week

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What Apple Pay At Five Says About The Future Of Mobile POS Payments. At the time of iPhone’s live debut in October of 2014, merchants accounting for only 19 percent of all retail sales could enable an Apple Pay transaction, only 39 percent of all iPhones could support an Apple Pay wallet and just 11 percent of all consumers owned one.

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Why Amazon Bet (Almost) A Billion On Certainty

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The need for creating certainty is why QSRs are hopping on the mobile order-ahead bandwagon. Plastic cards and the card rails are reliable and certain, at the physical store as well as online. Speaking of online, uncertainty over shopping online is what gave birth to PayPal in 1998. Certainty as Retail’s Disruptor.

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Class Action Vs. MasterCard Looms In UK

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If it’s a day with a vowel in it, it must be a day to mobilize the troops and think about suing the card networks. That voided case, and the one that may come in the U.K., Australia is the poster child for this, where regulation there will cap interchange fees going forward – and banks are now scaling back on rewards programs.

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How Payments Will Save Retail

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I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. THE MOVE FROM PHYSICAL TO ONLINE TO MOBILE. Consumers are increasingly moving their shopping and buying not only online, but online via the mobile devices. How very unlikely these days. Here’s the evidence. And guess what?

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S. And they fear that the impact on the vitality of the local economies that this void has created won’t be fully felt for a decade or more. Economists don’t think so. It also wasn’t easy for any of that to happen in reverse.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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Online platforms like Hipcamp and Campsy have emerged to help campers book unique lodging experiences like yurts, treehouses, and caves. From Starbucks to Panera, chains are embracing mobile ordering and in-store pickup to attract a busier, millennial audience. MILLENNIALS ARE SEEKING OUT MORE AFFORDABLE, BESPOKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS.