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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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JULY 1, 2016

In the 1980s, the United States had two major hubs of technology innovation. Everyone knows about Silicon Valley, but the East Coast had a "Silicon Valley" of its own, located along Route 128 in the suburbs of Boston. When Gov. Michael Dukakis touted the "Massachusetts Miracle" in his 1988 presidential campaign, he was largely talking about Boston's high-tech boom.

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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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JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. The country’s technology ecosystem is setting the foundation for good governance, infrastructure and increased capabilities, which makes it no surprise Singapore has gained attention for its tech initiatives.

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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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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 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 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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JUNE 29, 2016

[link]. Wanna know the secret to launching a mobile payments network? Don’t make its value proposition to either merchants or consumers about payments. That’s the key insight from LevelUp Chief Ninja Seth Priebatsch, someone who has been beavering away at building a mobile payments network since 2011. In this week’s installment of PYMNTS’ video/audio series The Matchmaker Is In , hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist, MPD Founder and co-author of the bestselling book “ Matchmakers: Th

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JUNE 28, 2016

Starting Aug. 1, Wells Fargo will be bringing its 17 million+ mobile banking customers real-time P2P payments, thanks to Early Warning’s clearXchange network. As part of the deal, Wells Fargo will enable those customers the chance to send funds in real time for no cost to any customer that participates in the same program on the network. As it stands now, Wells Fargo customers themselves can already do this for free from customers within the network.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Encryption is now a payments best practice. That’s one of the key takeaways from the latest Global Encryption Application Trends Study, which is an independent research study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Thales e-Security. The report tracks how various industry sectors and geographies use encryption coupled with business applications to protect their data.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Chipotle wants you back as a costumer and has launched a new loyalty program that it hopes will make that happen. The popular burrito (and burrito bowl) making fast-food chain has announced a new branding campaign dubbed “Chiptopia” that it hopes will draw back in many of the diners who ditched the brand after a series of health-related scares last fall.

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As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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JUNE 30, 2016

Physical boundaries? Where we’re going there are no physical boundaries … at least when it comes to IoT, as industry innovations continue to challenge traditional notions of what a connected device looks like. And, yes, the landscape does seem downright “Back to the Future” inspired. Beyond the confines of smartphones, tablets and computers, cloud-based solutions (like Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem ) are empowering everything – from headsets to home sensors to users’ voices – with connect

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JUNE 28, 2016

Small businesses have a multitude of options when they need external financing. There are the traditional routes, like small business bank loans, and then there are the alternative and online lending sources. On top of that, small businesses are commonly using personal means – friends and family or personal credit cards – to support their enterprises.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Amazon Payments will soon be an official payment option of the U.S. federal government. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced today (June 29) that Amazon Payments will soon be a digital payment option for consumers needing to make an online payment to the federal government. This is being done in order to increase the efficiency for consumers paying the government electronically. “We are committed to giving Americans choices for transacting with their government,” said Corvelli McDani

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JUNE 29, 2016

Even the most omnichannel-savvy brick-and-mortar retailers have several justifiable fears about the rise of mobile in just about every path to purchase. Whether consumers are just taking the first steps of product research or are comparing prices standing in store aisles themselves, the pocket-sized smartphone is becoming an increasingly large factor in how and where consumers decide to pull out their pursestrings.

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JUNE 28, 2016

The internet has put instant gratification – or at least the ability to be able to buy anything we want at any time that we want – at the tip of all of our fingers, and the logical extension of the “See Now, Buy Now” model is reshaping the fashion industry , although not all designers are thrilled with these changes and some have even decried them as “the death of creativity” for the fashion industry.

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JUNE 30, 2016

It’s hard to find many headline this week that doesn’t have something to do with Brexit and how the U.K.’s decision to say “see ya” to the E.U. is impacting everything from eCommerce sales to the value of the nation’s biggest financial institutions. But with London itself being one of the world’s biggest FinTech centers, the real question that’s yet to be answered is how the Brexit fallout will impact the various merchants, startups and VCs that call the city home.

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JUNE 27, 2016

Bringing Omni To The Market . More merchants are adding omnichannel services to their offerings, eclipsing the need for physical currency and leaving many wondering what the future holds for old-fashioned, cash-based businesses – like mom-and-pop shops and farmers markets. After all, if people aren’t carrying bills – or even cards – with them, how will traditionally non-digital retailers keep up?

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JUNE 30, 2016

Today marks the last day of June 2016, which means we’re halfway through the year. And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Here’s what you may have missed this month from some of the top mobile pay players. Apple Pay — 20 Months In.

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JUNE 27, 2016

Kroger Co. is suing Visa Inc. over EMV PIN debit-card transactions, claiming that the card network threatened them with increased fees and eliminating debit acceptance capacity in-store, if the nation’s largest grocer refused to abide by Visa’s stated EMV rules. Visa informed Kroger their machines are out of compliance with Visa’s requirement that customers be given the choice to verify debit purchases with a signature or a PIN instead of just a PIN when presenting their EMV cards at

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JULY 1, 2016

Kevin Plank, Under Amour’s more than ambitious CEO , is seeking more than $1 billion in local, state and federal funding to rebuild a depressed portion of Baltimore’s waterfront known as Fort Covington. The problem, many locals say, is that only Under Armour will benefit from the arrangement. Plank’s privately-owned development group, Sagamore Development, has purchased about 266 acres of distressed real estate near or around the water in Baltimore and plans to build, from the ground up, over th

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JULY 1, 2016

Bitcoin, continuing to bring out the best in everyone it touches. Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges has already been found to have stolen funds seized by the feds during the investigation of the Silk Road – the former favored black market bazar of the dark web. He is now tied to at least two other instances of theft, according to court filings unsealed this week.

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JULY 1, 2016

JPMorgan just launched its own version of a FinTech accelerator, but with a twist. That’s all part of JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank’s new strategy for a program called In-Residence , a FinTech startup-like lab designed to help young companies overcome industry challenges. JPMorgan is setting itself apart from a traditional accelerator by inviting these companies to sit with the bank’s businesses so they can develop innovations that are specifically needed in th

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