| The Year In Data: Measuring 2020âs Payments Innovation Every trip needs a good navigator and over the course of 2020, PYMNTS set out to create the data to produce the insights to help decision-makers navigate the change sweeping across every business and within every consumer. Ninety-three studies and hundreds of thousands of data points later, new trendlines emerged. Here are 10 of the PYMNTS studies that defined those trends. |
| How Main Street Businesses Honed Their Survival Skills In 2020 No segment of the economy took a harder hit than the storefronts that line the Main Streets and the side streets of our cities and towns. Main Street businesses spent the year finding their footing, going digital and getting creative about how to keep their businesses in business. We look back on some of the things they did to make it through. |
| Highs And Lows Of 2020 Could Be 2021âs Dress Rehearsal For Bitcoin And Cryptos Bitcoin had a banner year in 2020. Now the stage has been set for broader adoption of bitcoin and other digital currencies to be held within the financial services realm, which in turn may bode well for institutional adoption. Bet that there will be new highs, new lows and new use cases for bitcoin and its brethren in 2021. |
| What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic Think of it as eavesdropping on a conversation between two payments professionals about just about everything and anything related to payments, retail and commerce innovation. Because that’s what it was. Take a listen to 10 of the more lively podcast conversations between Karen Webster and top execs from companies that include Visa, Mastercard, J.P. Morgan, PayPal and Afterpay about how to innovate payments in the middle of a global pandemic. |
| | How We Will Eat | | How We Will Eat: 2021 Promises To Bring A Digital Appetite COVID-19 and the digital shift mean that buying groceries or restaurant meals will never be the same. Consumers will have more options than ever when it comes to ordering food, pick up or delivery and how they pay. Hereâs what the future of how and where we eat might look like. |
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