It seems more and more fast food and fast casual restaurants are trimming the workforce in favor of robots and, in many cases, customers seem to be OK with that. More than OK, in fact, as informal dining settings are increasingly seeing that the less interaction required, the happier customers will be. Eatsa’s recent move to focus on innovation and enabling other restaurants with its technology is simply the latest in a trend that doesn’t seem likely to slow down anytime soon. Read More...

Tokenization is a vanguard in the fight against card not present fraud, but is flexible enough to protect just about any store of value. Rambus’ vice president of strategic business development, David Worthington, tells PYMNTS why encrypted credentials are among the best ways to keep security robust (and invisible!) between buyers and sellers, providers and patients and, well, almost everyone — especially when time is of the essence.  Read More...

No one is born with an 800 or 400 credit score, and as many as 20 percent of the 200 million Americans with a FICO score pass through the 600 to 700 range at some point in their financial lives. In the latest Data Drivers, Houman Motaharian, chief revenue officer at LendingPoint, examines the relationship between the near-prime consumer’s credit needs, their use of funds and creditworthiness. Read More...