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Traditional loyalty programs provide customers with tangible benefits, such as a free item with purchase or a reward for return visits. But these are limited in reach, argues James Roedding, vice president of product and data Rewards Network.

Although slow to catch up, issuing banks are well placed within the payments ecosystem to capitalize on short-term credit provision — in fact, they can be the biggest winners, argues Mehmet Sezgin, CEO and founder of myGini.

The new Apple Card wasn't just one product of many announced at the Steve Jobs Theater on Monday — it was the glue that binds all of Apple's new services together.

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Amazon.com Inc.’s Zappos unit, letting a lawsuit proceed over a 2012 hack that exposed the personal information of 24 million customers.

Before we can advertise the security benefits of digital wallets, we have to address their vulnerabilities, writes Jared McClure, co-founder and COO of CrayPay.

Agency concerned about the number of "risky" mortgages being approved; Brian Kelly, who runs The Points Guy website, can determine if a card succeeds or fails.

Blockchain technology provider Yosemite X is following the spirit of the mega-retailers' disbanded Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) joint retailer venture, but on a local level.

Attracting surprisingly technology-savvy older consumers is a lucrative—and surprisingly easy—goal for online retailers, as long as payments fraud protection is solid and understantable, argues Monica Eaton-Cardone, co-founder and CEO of Chargebacks911.

AI-driven customer insights, mortgages and small-business loans are among the features in the app, which the bank is rolling out Friday.

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