Retail loyalty offerings today, often at the heart of retailer customer experience plans, are often impersonal and increasingly intangible - two million gold stars don’t mean much if they don’t translate into anything of worth. Consumer value is being forgotten as companies become increasingly obsessed with data. The retail winners of the future will be those that put the consumer and their experience first.

1. Provide a product or experience that’s worth going in-store for

Today, Wednesday June 29, marks the golden anniversary of the first credit card in Britain. Yoyo Wallet CEO Alain Falys, whose company helps retailers integrate their EPOS systems to create fast and secure mobile payments, says that 50 years after this payment revolution, we're now on the brink of another.

From the security perspective the most secure computer is the one not connected to the internet or any network at all. Unfortunately the information security and functional convenience frequently contradict with each other. In today’s interconnected world the organizations have to put their business interests and critical infrastructure at great risk in pursuit for innovation.Rapid7 helps security professionals in effective vulnerability assessment and incident management with no compromise to functional performance.

The Banner Bank executive leadership team is pleased to announce Kayleen Kohler has joined the bank as Executive Vice President of Human Resources, and a member the Executive Management Committee. Kohler plays a key role in driving the company’s organizational design priorities, including leadership development, talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee relations, compensation, benefits, diversity initiatives, payroll and safety.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has set a new standard for advisors by redefining who qualifies as a fiduciary. New objectives aim to ensure that advisors are always putting the best interests of their clients first, and reduces conflicts of interest for advisors by increasing fee disclosures. Many believe that this fiduciary standard will increase the cost of business for advisors due to the cost to comply, and if some advisors want to continue to plan for a client’s retirement with investments, they will need to adjust their workflow.

MasterCard announced today it will collaborate with Microsoft to bring simple and secure e-commerce payments to Microsoft Dynamics users.

Simplify Commerce, a uniquely versatile, highly secure and incredibly simple cloud-based payments platform, helps businesses grow by maximizing online and mobile sales. Through this collaboration, Microsoft Dynamics customers will have one system that connects their end-to-end planning and sales. This provides users with a number of key benefits:

GBG, the identity intelligence specialist, is pleased to announce that it has conditionally agreed to acquire 100% of IDscan Biometrics, a provider of software that automates on-boarding of customers and employees by simplifying the identity verification and data capture process.

IDscan Biometrics helps authentication of documents including passports, visas, ID cards, driving licenses, utility bills and work permits whilst also capturing facial biometrics which provides proof that those documents are not stolen.

Finacle is the industry-leading universal banking solution from EdgeVerve Systems. The solution helps financial institutions develop deeper connections with stakeholders, power continuous innovation and accelerate growth in the digital world.Over the past 25 years, the solution has been helping financial institutions develop deeper connections with stakeholders, power continuous innovation and accelerate growth in the digital world.