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Editor's Note: Following are excerpts from news stories recently posted under Breaking Industry NRF 2019: big, bold, inclusive
News on our home page. For links to these and other full news stories, please visit www.green-
sheet.com/breakingnews.php?flag=previous_breaking_news. he National Retail
Federation's annual con-
vention, held in January
T at New York's Jacob
Javits Convention Center, provided
approximately 37,000 attendees with
keynote and panel presentations,
interactive exhibits and guided
tours of iconic New York City stores.
In opening comments, NRF presi-
dent and CEO Matthew Shay cited
improving economic conditions and
strong holiday spending as positive
signs of retail sector growth.

Buy online, pick up
in-store fraud spikes

A new benchmark study from ACI
Worldwide revealed a spike in fraud
attempts involving the buy online
POS & Ecommerce pick up in-store (BOPIS) channel
during the 2018 peak holiday sea-
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service providers need to up their
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Fiserv, First Data?

In 2007, when Kohlberg Kravis Rob-
erts & Co. agreed to pay $29 billion
for First Data Corp., the news sent
shock waves throughout the pay-
ments industry. Many experts feared
the private equity firm would have a
detrimental effect on one of the na-
tion’s largest acquirers and thereby
roil the industry. The news released
in mid-January, that Fiserv agreed to
acquire First Data was received with
much more calm.

CALL FOR DETAILS (888) 313-7841 NEAA all grown up
Fifteen years ago, the Northeast
Acquirers Association conference
was a relatively small, regional af-
fair. A couple hundred ISOs and
merchant level salespeople (MLSs)
would come together at a Vermont
ski resort in the dead of winter for
networking, educational sessions
Las Vegas ● San Diego ● Denver ● Tampa
and fun on the slopes. This year
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