Removing consumer and merchant friction, of course, was a major theme during Day 1 (Sept. 16) of Finovate Fall 2015 — the FinTech industry event of the season, which showcased more than 70 companies that presented their best and brightest products and concepts to a group of like-minded FinTech-savvy enthusiasts from across the financial ecosystem. The other buzzwords that flood the headlines in the payments and commerce newswires were also prevalent at Finovate, which encompassed concepts such as: checkout abandonment, customer acquisition, security and fraud, cloud-based software, online-to-offline, contextual commerce, mobile transactions, artificial intelligence, real time, mobile money, digital innovation, omnichannel banking, biometrics tech, analytics data, white-label API, SMB solutions and blockchain tech.

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