First Data Connected Magazine

Volume 3 | 2018

The Innovators

Marketplaces and consumer desires are changing across the globe. To keep up with the pace, new partnerships are being formed and battle lines are being drawn. This issue of Connected explores how trailblazers are turning payments into a competitive advantage by accepting all payment types anywhere, expanding and managing risk, and understanding the data to create conversational commerce.

The Innovators

A look at the ways merchants are pushing boundaries through technology and partnerships. This is human intervention designed to change the consumer experience and conquer natural selection... This is innovation.

The Innovators

A look at the ways merchants are pushing boundaries through technology and partnerships. This is human intervention designed to change the consumer experience and conquer natural selection... This is innovation.

The New Big Data

Each time you slide your credit card into an EMV reader, you trigger a powerful built-in microcomputer a centimeter wide. But the real game begins instantly after, as Big Data continues to influence the way we live, work, shop and play.

Equality Pays

Headlined as a “boys’ club”, the starkest gender inequality can be found in the tech industry. But, First Data, a leading global fintech company, is taking real action to help build and nurture a culture of equality throughout the company.

Fintech & Bank Fusion

The banking landscape in Europe is changing. Factors like evolving consumer environments and new legislation are forcing banks to act more like fintechs. Great challenges lead to greater opportunities which result in even more impressive innovations.

Gen-Z Rising

The first wave of Gen-Z’ers will graduate college and enter the marketplace this year. Behind them is an entire generation of teens and young adults who have never known an unconnected world. If you think Millennials changed how we lived and shopped, get ready for a whole new reality.