PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

The gig economy. Gig and Freelance Payments. That deal also reflects the increasing importance of gig and freelance work to the larger economy — a market where payments companies are striving for bigger shares. People can earn their necessary household income exclusively through a sort of independent economy.”.

Currencies 41

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

population, which undermined central goals of the funding: to provide immediate financial relief to businesses and consumers and to stimulate a flatlining economy. Some are embracing self-service online tools such as websites that allow employees to access information about their pay, vacation time, benefits and other topics.

Economics 52

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Coverage includes a story about how bamboo straws signal a new phase in global commerce, a new mobile payment network and Amazon’s latest push into biometrics, among many other topics and original PYMNTS research. Seventy percent of gig economy workers are still living paycheck to paycheck, despite pulling in more money than ever.

eCommerce 46

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014. The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China.

Transportation 88

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The crux of the Payments and The Platform Economy Playbook is that with 162 million workers in the U.S. and Europe currently involved with the gig economy, projected to be serving 86.5 million consumers by 2021, sharing economy platforms can’t just meet customers’ needs – they also have to anticipate them.

Communication 52

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Today’s “gig economy” is a big enough force in business that a quick Googling of the term will pull up an impressive 14.9 One of those pages is our quarterly Gig Economy Index , which takes the quarterly pulse of the gig worker. Gig workers , on the other hand, seem to like working gigs.

Retail 40

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Strategic Treasurer

JANUARY 3, 2022

And what tech topics do you think will likely have the biggest impact and that biggest impact can be taken as something new in Treasury or something that’s continuing and accelerating. . . I think these are all the different topics that a lot of companies are looking for. Jon Paquette 1:43 . The second is fraud mitigation.

Treasury 52

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

As more people flock to the gig economy, there are increasing challenges around developing and supporting benefits and/or benefits programs for these workers. The gig economy doesn’t have an infrastructure in place that supports these types of benefits, which begs the question: Whose job is it to make this a reality?

Compliance 43

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Here’s a topic for debate. The topic was addressed in a PYMNTS interview with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of FinTech at Visa and Venkatesh Saha , head of expansion (Middle East & APAC) at TransferWise. That can help gig economy workers and freelancers get paid more quickly, in their currencies of choice.

Currencies 72

Currencies B2B Technology Marketing 72

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This is not a new topic of conversation. Kids of parents born in the 1940s had it the best, not surprisingly, given the intersection of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the rapid expansion of the economy that followed — driven by the wholesale shift from a farm-based to a manufacturing-based economy.

Advertising 88

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The digital economy is here and, for many consumers, it has become a way of life. In a recent webinar, Karen Webster dug into this topic with Fiserv ’s Tammi Shapiro, vice president of electronic payments product strategy and management, and Paul Diegelman, vice president of electronic payments partnerships and business development.

B2C 56

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We talk about everything from when do you think about risk, how do you diversify a portfolio, at what point do you really have to rethink the fundamentals of what’s going on in the economy and the marketplace? Tell us about that opening gig. I found this conversation to be absolutely fascinating.

Investments 52

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

No question about it, Uber is emblematic with the ability to use technology to turbocharge the matchmaker economy. As Uber expanded its platform with new services, such as UberEATS , Uber drivers were presented with more opportunities to make money by delivering food to consumers in between gigs.

Transportation 76

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

MILLER: And there’s nothing better than talking about a topic that you’re really comfortable with and really smart people ask you questions that cause you to maybe think a little bit differently about the solution or whatever. It’s just such a giant topic. RITHOLTZ: It’s a whole new crop of new audience.

Sales 52

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’ll be on Bloomberg Radio today 3:00 pm-6:00 pm, and it’s the first topic we will address. The post-lockdown economy is returning to normal. But it’s not too difficult to see either outcome… The post The Post Lock-Down Economy appeared first on The Big Picture.

Entertainment 119

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Today, we thought we’d set the table for 2017 by reprising seven of the, ahem, more controversial topics of conversation. A large portion of them work as part of the gig economy , and many rather like it that way.

Retail 47

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

In the first quarter of 2020 when COVID shut the global economy down, everybody felt that the right thing for companies to do is hold back cash. RITHOLTZ: And one of the drivers is leaving to take a gig with another of the F1 teams, and he makes that announcement on Twitter. In fact, I give people a choice between two economies.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. 00:25:31 [Speaker Changed] So let’s stick with the, the topic of ai. It’s gonna take a while to integrate, integrate those folks back into other parts of the economy.

Investments 98

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

” If I, if the president ever, this is like a blog post I wrote when the President tweets about the economy, the market will move. LINDZON: So E-Trade to me… RITHOLTZ: If you would have pitched it to me like that, cause my first gig in the business was at E-Trade, I would have been all over it. You should start a company.

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