NRF Wrap 2025 by Tom McCole After surviving a treacherous “Georgia blizzard” with snowfall reaching a frightening 1.5 inches, I made my way safely to the Atlanta airport. Destination: The National Retail Federation convocation in New York City. This is my 25th year of attending this event and I can declare emphatically my favorite so…
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VC Offloads Present Quality Buying Opportunities for Strategics by Adam Hark The signs were there at the end of 2024. VC inbounds seeking valuation assessments on portfolio holdings, and looking for insights into market liquidity. The reason for the uptick? Generally speaking, an industry-wide push to cut losses on underperforming assets. And now? Well, not…
Wonderful Wearables by Tom McCole One of the amazing things about retail payment technology is the rapid rate of change and development of new products and business models. In the not-so-distant past, we have migrated from carrying cash for purchases to paying with plastic cards. We evolved from knuckle-busting imprinters and manual lookup of bad…
Scamscope 2024 Report: The Battle for Trust APP scams are predicted to hit $7.6bn by 2028 and are on the rise in every country featured in this year’s report by ACI Worldwide. Download the report to gain use cases from the U.S., U.K., India, Brazil, Australia, and the UAE to help build a secure payments…
Finding the Right ROI in Bank Tech By: Tyler Brown Infrastructure Investments Fewer than a quarter of bankers in a survey by Bank Director said their bank measured return on investment (ROI) for technology projects, implying at least one widespread problem with banks’ technology planning: A resource allocation approach that doesn’t robustly consider the costs and benefits of…