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February 11, 2019

The Monday Conversation

Can Digital Assistants Take Luxury Retail To The Next Omni Level?

As Fashion Week kicks into high gear, ModeSens CEO Brian Li talks with Karen Webster about how digital platforms and digital assistants can tie brands and consumers together — and push sales to the stores. That is, even when it means scanning a barcode in a store to find the product somewhere else.

 

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PODCAST: 'State Of’ Series

The State Of Faster Payments: ‘Early Innings’

In the latest PYMNTS “State Of” podcast, Fiserv’s VP of Business Development Tim Ruhe weighs in on why it’s just the beginning of a long-term movement to real-time payments in the U.S. Despite 56 real-time payment schemes on the horizon, and no shortage of complexity to connect FIs with those rails, he says we’re right where we need to be.

 

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FinTech Regulations

FinTech Credit: Not So Clear And Present Danger?

A new report from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) finds that as FinTech firms make inroads into traditional financial services, it’s getting tougher to regulate what cannot be defined. FinTech credit, a nascent industry, is in the FSB’s sights for that reason. We break it down.

 

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Payments Innovation

Could Online Intermediaries Control The Physical Point Of Sale?

In 20 years, we’ve gone from Blackberries and desktops for shopping online to connected devices and voice-activated intermediaries that help consumers shop and pay. Twenty years from now, Karen Webster says, the same online intermediaries that have driven that change will also influence how consumers shop and pay in the physical store — to the extent that we still even do so. That, she says, could have an impact on those who hold the POS power today. Here’s how.

 

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