PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Users of the platform share videos and pictures on topics like travel, food and skincare. Chinese media reported that Tencent told its staff that the new research arm is going to be responsible for moving the needle on digital payments using blockchain. Tencent and Alibaba both invested in that round.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Her observations cover a wide range of topics, but among the main themes is to look beneath the surface of technology, processes and innovation ideas. Her observations cover a wide range of topics, but among the main themes is to look beneath the surface of technology, processes and innovation ideas. B2B Payments.

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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. According to the Payments and The Platform Economy Playbook , the U.S. When it comes to activities like travel booking, customer service can also encompass avoiding payment and security frictions for property owners and buyers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Few things travel as quickly as bad news, such as a negative story or juicy anecdote about rude or incompetent customer service (which, after all, gives people the basic human joy of shouting down real or perceived injustice, a long-standing use of popular narrative). Payments Drives Innovation. Times have changed,” he told Webster.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Here’s an exercise that may come off as too academic – like a debate over how many angels fit on a pinhead – but is really among the most vital for not only PYMNTS readers, but pretty much any other business operators: What is the perfect payments experience? Payments Disruption. That changed expectations,” Bilafer noted.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Payments and cash flow can be the difference between life and death for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), This also applies to expense and spend management, which have a massive impact on cash flow. Fresh data support those larger points about payments, cash flow and SMBs. The problem is all to real for SMBs, he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Still, even after all these months, and even with legalization done at a federal scale (as opposed to province by province), the cannabis payments process has hardly hit a full stride. the situation demonstrates that payments don’t always keep pace with rapid social change — change that often encourages entrepreneurship.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

“I think Goldman Sachs leaving R3 demonstrates both the opportunity for the bank to develop blockchain technology for internal use ahead of their peers as well as the challenges of banks working together using peer-to-peer payment solutions,” said Anthem Blanchard, CEO of Anthem Gold, a peer-to-peer blockchain metal company based in Austin.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

In an interview with Karen Webster as part of the continuing Topic TBD series, Ashley Raiteri, chief information officer of AirHelp , said that all airlines have a bill of rights in place that determines how people are recompensed if a delay becomes unacceptable. “We, Social media has helped too.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

And in the latest Topic TBD, between PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and Aaron Frank, Final ’s CEO, it was noted that innovation typically is confined to rewards and offers and the incentives that can be sweetened to get cardholders to spend at merchants. It may seem at first glance that credit cards are no font of innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

In the latest installment of Topic TBD, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster spoke with Plasso CEO Drew Wilson to get a sense of how smaller firms might view the current economic climate and how new startups can make the jump from drawing board to drawing eyeballs, customers and payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Barnum perfected the art of showmanship, a reputation burnished by the spectacular fame of the traveling circus and side show that bore his name: the Ringling Bros. One quote in the book that is particularly relevant to one of the hottest topics in payments today goes like this: “ Comfort is the enemy of progress.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As FinTechs step into the cross-border payments and foreign exchange (FX) management space, there are more solutions available than ever before for corporates seeking to gain speed and security in payments – and manage risk along the way. This embrace comes as corporates are just starting to work with faster payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

We know some people have differing opinions on this topic,” admitted Walmart in a statement. “We This will include some basic and predictable elements, such as contactless payments. So removing friction can involve anything from contactless payments to efficient customer service to clienteling. FIT® framework.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

The FX payments sector may be the hot topic of innovation among FinTech disruptors today, but according to FairFX, corporations are still stuck in the status quo — despite the recent rush of new solutions entering the market. FairFX, which recently raised nearly $7.5 FairFX, which recently raised nearly $7.5 The Prepaid Plan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

But surcharging as a topic of conversation in the U.S. For proof, we need look no further than the two markets that many in the payments industry regard as leading the pack in payments innovation: Australia and the U.K. More than anything else, those operating rules help ensure consumers’ trust in the payments ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Identity and age verification — in real time — are among the hottest topics in global eCommerce. Such digital authentication methods are moving from the realm of digital government ID, travel gates and border crossings, and into the world of daily consumer life — including via car rentals at airports.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

This was the topic of discussion in the latest Beyond the Buzzword podcast, as WePay Co-Founder Rich Aberman and PYMNTS’ Karen Webster talked about what it means to be a platform — and where the term is most relevant. Online retail, restaurants and travel are the most obvious areas of transformation over the last decade or so.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve all known about the ease of digital payments and the speed and efficiencies enjoyed over digging in one’s wallet or pockets for cash. But crossing the Rubicon from paper tickets to digital ones is no easy feat when you’re dealing with mass transport and millions of riders as they use contact payments cards as they travel.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

It can happen on a well-crafted blog designed to appeal to particular hobbyists, or an event and ticketing website, or an online platform devoted to travel. And the people who try it seem to really, really like it — which signals good news for merchants and payments providers in the coming years. The Importance of Payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As Nancy Berger, VP and CRO at Marie Claire USA , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, it’s one of those topics that inherently catches everyone’s interest. “If Placed within the store’s dressing rooms, the mirrors can suggest accessories to complete outfits and accept payment for those outfits.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Here are the 2019 payment trends that made the biggest splash, and promise to make even bigger splashes in the new decade. #1: The rise of voice is the big factor behind the rise of smart homes, where consumers are doing more commerce and payments. As in so many things with payments and commerce, Amazon is among the leaders here.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For innovators and payments professionals, the good news about the world is also identical to the bad news: It is a constantly changing environment. Flywire’s bread and butter is cross-border payments, specifically large-sum, cross-border transactions. But globalization has its discontents — Brexit, a change in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Or, if we were back in the good old “Fiddler On The Roof” days, the concept of the multi-sided platforms weren’t a driving topic of conversation. And one of those rapidly changing topics that’s caused a lot of stir recently has been the evolution of online P2P lending marketplaces. ”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

And blockchain’s role in that upheaval seems even more of a relay race — smaller bursts of disruption — than an all-at-once disruption of the global payments sector. The whole concept of blockchain could disintermediate the banks, so this is an important topic to understand.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store in 2008 opened everyone’s eyes to the impact that mobile would have on payments and commerce. Twenty years and hundreds of millions of smartphones later, the digital payments experience is anything but consistent anywhere — online, in-store and in-app.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

The saga over bitcoin and its relationship to various regulators has become something of the payments answer to a romantic comedy. I can ask my friends who study abroad or travel there myself. Bitcoin banned can be a store of value, but as a payment method, it probably has no future. It’s not that big of a problem.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

At the start of the year, I wrote a piece that outlined six trends that I suggested would set the agenda for payments innovation and commerce reinvention in 2016. That, I suggested, would give everyone a blank slate to think cleverly and creatively about how to use software, apps and data to add value to the payments and commerce steam.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Indeed, according to Fiskl CEO and Founder Alina Lapusneanu , entrepreneurs are searching for solutions that can multitask, and embrace a wide range of functionality to tackle more pain points around banking, payments and cash management — all at once. All About Cash Flow.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

B2B payments innovators and Warren Buffet have something in common: They are both obsessed with rails. More than 42 percent of the freight that traveled across the 140,000 miles of track in the U.S. Making B2B Payments Rails Hot. Today, a host of innovators are making B2B payments rails sexy again too. million workers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2017

And as mobile commerce continues to make its presence felt on the payments landscape, developers are seemingly more eager than ever to earn a spot in the mobile payments landscape. Meanwhile, India’s largest bank has its eyes set on mobile QR payments. Mobile payments are also fast gaining popularity in the Middle East.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Late December brings office holiday gatherings, travel to see family, and, for many, the opportunity to take a few well-deserved days off. James Dahle | The White Coat Investor). Of course, as December comes to a close, so does the calendar year and with it, year-end deadlines for a range of financial planning tasks and opportunities. (Amy

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

Mobile wallets, arguably built to solve problems that few consumers had , are again taking on a common hassle faced by travelers who cross international borders: getting those refunds on local taxes. Chinese Travel. One hot trend — or, at the least, topic of discussion — is providing more “ single scan ” transaction capability.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Research also uncovered gaps in how businesses interact with innovative tools depending on who’s using it — financial executive versus corporate traveler and even millennial business owner versus Baby Boomer. 21 new banks joined SWIFT’s B2B payments innovation initiative , the financial messaging company reported last week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Facebook’s launch of Libra on June 18 unleashed a firestorm of media coverage, mostly repetitive, and mostly a piling on over the regulatory bear that it poked when unveiling its global payments plus cryptocurrency plans. That day, not surprisingly, Messenger became a key topic of conversation in the analyst Q&A.

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

So, I’m pretty excited about the topic today. So, we have a massive amount of data as we move through the trough and on to the recovery and look at economic to attitudes about virus vaccines, stay at home, travel, things like that. Let’s begin with a review of COVID-19’s impact on treasury. Meredith Zonsius 8:17 .

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