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The employee incentives industry offers companies a seemingly endless selection of rewards, incentives and gifts designed to help boost employee satisfaction, stimulate sales teams or prioritize one initiative ahead of another. A great incentive program can help achieve any or all of these goals, but without strategic planning it can quickly become exceptionally costly, time-consuming and hard to manage. The truth is that not all rewards are created equal. So how do companies streamline incentive programs and drive results?

Fifty-four percent of those 2014 breaches related to identity theft; 17 percent to financial access; and 11 percent to account access. And in that year, 32 data records were lost or stolen every second—averaging out to almost 2.8 million a day. In a world of widespread breaches, card issuers must look at reissuance as an opportunity.

By Render Dahiya There are constant pressures on the profitability of loyalty and rewards programs tied to credit, gift and prepaid card use. Consumers have more resources than ever that let them compare prices, perks and rewards, which means brands must

Have a Starbucks card in your wallet? Chances are it was produced at a facility in Southern Nevada.

Same goes for your hotel key cards.

And it may even be the case for your credit and debit cards.

In today’s digital world, retail customers have come to expect real-time customer service, easy-to-use websites, and a wide choice of payment methods. As a retail merchant, if you are not yet offering a branded gift card as an option for shoppers to make purchases, you may want to reconsider that stance right now.

As EMV migration and adoption accelerate throughout 2016, an increase in Card Not Present fraud is inevitable. EMV shifts caused considerable spikes in CNP fraud in Canada and Europe more than a decade ago when mobile shopping didn’t even exist, and the ramifications for the U.S. could be enormous.

You probably already know that millennials are the largest, most diverse generation of Americans, comprising a third of our nation’s population. But how are they consuming financial services today and what can you do to capitalize on this valuable segment?

It’s easy to make certain assumptions about what various demographics want, but it’s also easy to be wrong. A recent survey on what people want from their financial institutions offers deeper insight.

The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the coming year and what their ideal payments system looks like.

Arroweye Solutions‘ President and CEO Render Dahiya spoke about the three big thing in payments and what we can expect to see in the future.

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