Real Time Data Fuels The Big Data Machine

According to Marketwatch, the 2017 holiday shopping season promises to be the second best since the end of the great recession – growing by 5.7 over the 2016 season.

Payments, UX, fraud detection and – most significantly – consumers are all getting smarter. This week, we’re fascinated by Visa and PYMNTS’ new findings that a large majority of connected consumers want an effortless shopping experience.

As biometric technology improves and more use cases evolve, we discover more about the benefits, risks and the growth potential of the technology each day. In fact, here are three things we’ve recently learned about the technology.