Klarna Launches Memberships: Premium Perks Without Expensive Credit

Klarna’s new Premium and Max memberships pack cashback, travel perks, and top subscriptions into one plan, delivering 10x the value with no spending targets. LONDON, ENGLAND– October 27, 2025 — (BUSINESS WIRE)– Klarna, the global digital bank and payments provider, today unveiled its new global membership program, introducing Premium and Max. The program delivers premium benefits […]

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Paytronix Releases Journey Builder to Enable Self-Service, Ultra-Personalized Messaging Campaigns

AI-powered messaging tool is the first release in Paytronix’s enhanced Guest Engagement Suite, designed to help restaurant and convenience store brands drive loyalty at scale NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS– October 27, 2025 —  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Paytronix, an Access company, today announced the launch of Journey Builder, an AI-powered campaign automation tool that enables marketers to create sophisticated, multi-touchpoint […]

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The Loyalty Newswire October 30, 2025

The Loyalty Newswire from The Wise Marketer From the Editor The Cobrand & Travel Rewards 2025 event wrapped up today and if you were not there, you missed a fantastic event. Authoritative overviews of the affluent card marketing business and the emergence of cobrand debit cards were at the center of discussions. We’ll be sharing […]

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#717: Emirates Skywards Silver Jubilee – 25 Years Celebrating Emirates Loyalty Success

This episode is also available in video format on www.Loyalty.TV. Paula Thomas here today, hosting perhaps the most special and significant episode of our show for me personally – and I can’t imagine a more perfect guest and topic today than the Silver Jubilee of the Emirates Skywards programme – the very programme that inspired my career in loyalty […]

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McKinsey: In Four-Step Plan to Optimize Martech Investments, AI Is the Connector

Nearly four out of five organizations will increase their annual martech expenditures during the next five years, according to McKinsey & Company. In fact, 34% will boost their annual martech spend by more than 10%. Yet when the consulting firm interviewed roughly 50 senior marketing officers at Fortune 500 organizations, not one could quantify the […]

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The Four Forces Redefining Inbound Marketing in 2026

Things are changing for B2B marketers. They can feel it. Their current inbound marketing campaigns aren’t pulling the same volume or quality MQLs they used to. Why not? What’s changed? It comes down to a variety of things: technological, strategic, cultural and psychological. But all rolled up, there are four big forces redefining what successful […]

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Ulta Aims for New Shoppers and More Spend with New Marketplace

Marketplaces have become the go-to way for retailers to quickly expand their assortment in a low-risk way. And Ulta wants in. The cosmetics retail chain recently launched UB Marketplace not to expand the assortment of its core offering, but to test products in adjacent categories, such as grooming, wellness, pro tools and global beauty, said […]

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Receipts, Robots, and the Claude Financial Data Coup

In case you missed it yesterday, we’ve been reporting the latest from Money 20/20!  And on this day, when the world’s first $5 Trillion company (NVIDIA) was minted, we are keeping an eye on the latest in AI:  London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) partnered with Anthropic to bring financial data access into Claude (e.g., summarising earnings calls, scanning diligence […]

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The Future of Work: 5 Leaders Redefining HR and People Processes with AI

Whenever there’s a mention of a company using AI, the default perception is that it’s a copilot or an assistant that generates, summarizes, or surfaces insights from a company’s data backend. The idea isn’t misplaced, but the actual role of AI inside enterprises is evolving fast. A new wave of startups has productionized AI to […]

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Ingenico Announces Leadership Transition Plan and Appoints Floris de Kort as Chief Executive Officer

PARIS, ATLANTA — October 28, 2025 — Ingenico, the global leader in payments acceptance solutions, today announced the appointment of Floris de Kort as Chief Executive Officer, effective November 1st, 2025, to lead Ingenico’s next phase of growth and innovation. Laurent Blanchard will step down as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Supervisory Board to […]

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