HOW DOES YOUR COMPANY FIT INTO THE CARD-LINKING OR ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE COMMERCE ECOSYSTEMS? ContextLink offers a new category of Personalized AI and Data Platforms that allows customizable content to your loyalty program – providing both insight and engagement into a much more highly-complex consumer. We do this through our proprietary platform that micro-segments customer data to find the known and unknown...

Payments and Offers Go Global Walgreens has announced that all of its US locations will now accept Alipay’s mobile payment platform. Alipay is already available at US cities such as New York, San Francisco and Las Vegas and by April, Alipay will be available at more than 7,000 Walgreens locations across the country. Walgreens is the largest U.S. drugstore chain to use...

by Silvio Tavares President and CEO The CardLinx Association In January 2018, few people could have predicted that artificial-intelligence technology would become so commonplace in payments and commerce. But by late 2018, I was boarding planes using a facial scan and no boarding card and not stopping to pay at Amazon Go, because my items were tracked by artificial intelligence (AI). Last year...