| Taking The Swedish Approach To Instant Payments Ubiquity More than 70 percent of Swedes use the countryâs mobile payments service, Swish. But eyeing the nationâs model as a blueprint for their own instant payments success must keep the banks', FinTechs' and other payment players' innovation goals aligned, says Bengt Nilervall, payment expert for the Swedish Trade Federation, in this month's Disbursements Tracker. |
| Podcast: B2Bâs Digital Shift |
| PYMNTSTV: Healthcare Payments |
| Healthcare Rx: Flexible Payment Systems Drive Positive Patient Experience The numbers donât lie. One in four patients says theyâd switch to another provider or doctor that offered more payment options and a better customer experience. Rectangle Health CEO Dominick Colabella says that costs of not converting to modern payments processing can be measured in dissatisfied patients. |
| Italian Banking Group Embraces Need For Speed For Future of Real-Time Payments The Italian Banking Association is charged with promoting the growth of the country’s banking system as it exists within the larger EU economy. As Rita Camporeale, head of payments systems at the association, told PYMNTS, progress has been made and the percentage of accounts that could use instant payments will approach 90 percent by the end of 2021. |
| | KLW Commentary | | Face-To-Face V. 2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy Weâve come a long way since the videophone in 1964. The years in between have seen the need for in-person business meetings go in and out of fashion, but the pandemic has pushed the concept to the extreme. Karen Webster says, as Zoom has shown, businesses have pivoted their business and marketing practices to reflect the new status quo, using digital tools and tech to fill the funnel, shorten the sales cycle and close business â and demonstrate the power of the connected economy.
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