Affirm valuation hits $9B, Pandemic hackers steal $36B from unemployment, Mexico’s Central Bank’s plans to move payments digital

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January 6, 2021

Digital First Experience

From Cash Registers To Curbside, Innovation Continues To Drive NCR’s Digital-First Journey

Just as it when it was founded in 1884, NCR still embraces a “simple made possible'' mantra that aims to make life easier for businesses and the customers they serve. Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of Digital Banking at NCR, told PYMNTS' Karen Webster that it applies to the three verticals the company serves: banking, restaurants and retail.

 

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Healthcare Payments

Moving Healthcare Providers To A New Payments Business Model

It’s an industry rife with billing delays and paper-based processes. Rectangle Health Chief Operating Officer Scott LoPresti told PYMNTS in a recent interview that his job is to educate providers on how to shift the industry’s business model.

 

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Emerging Market Lending

FinTech Jeff Aims To Boost Lending To The Underbanked In South Asia

After a year in business, this app-based lending platform has helped more than 200,000 unbanked and underbanked Asian consumers. As Jeff CEO Toms Niparts told PYMNTS, his company is barely scratching the surface of the market.

 

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Subscription Models

Subscription Payment Options Drive Customer Acquisition; Too Many Drive Them Away

Customer strategy in the subscription category is a delicate game. According to Trace Galloway, global vice president solution specialist at subscription management company Vindicia, judicious use of payment options is a key tactic in customer retention.

 

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Loyalty Programs

Personalization Is Key To Loyalty Programs’ Post-Pandemic Future

Relevance, segmentation and personalization. Those are the keys to providing added value to consumer loyalty programs in a world where relevance matters, according to Mladen Vladic, senior vice president of loyalty solutions at FIS.

 

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Real Time Payments

How Mexico’s Central Bank Plans To Move Payments To Digital

There are 37 million Mexican citizens with bank accounts and 84 million with mobile phones. “Bringing them together” Miguel Diaz, general director of payment systems and market Infrastructures at Banco de Mexico told Karen Webster is the goal of digital wallet tech with the hope banks will give consumers and merchants a more secure and inclusive way to interact.

 

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