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Passengers are warming to non-travel mobile payments, and the technology is advancing to enable mobile payments in flight, writes Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Mobile.

With midsize businesses still handling the majority of their accounts payable via checks, large corporations are reaping the benefits of digital or card payments. A lot of this has to do with a misunderstanding of the options available to them.

Zack Gipson, USAA’s chief innovation officer, also discusses the challenges of bringing a human touch to digital channels in a brief but candid Q&A.

Mastercard is extending the amount of time it allocates to global employees for bereavement to 20 days, following Facebook’s adoption of a similar policy.

Until now, Amazon's moves seemed like cautious pokes at the deeply ingrained habit of going to a store and paying with a plastic card. Furthermore, any competitors may have seen Amazon's lacking retail store presence as a buffer that kept them at least temporarily safe from the same fate that befell the bookselling world. How naive they were.

Amazon is working aggressively to change the way people shop — especially in the grocery space — but not all of its activities focus on products and store design. The e-commerce giant has also influenced a lot about how people use their payment cards.

IBM's Marc Andrews discusses AI and compliance; Dave Birch, Charlie Shrem and Anthony Di Iorio debate bitcoin and all that it's spawned.

Amazon has been making some aggressive moves in the grocery industry in recent months, but perhaps none so aggressive as its just-announced deal to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

In order for Apple to achieve significant success with its upcoming P-to-P service, the tech titan needs to expand the amount of people who can use the payments feature.

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