| iZettle CEO: Why PayPalâs Fast-Tracking Innovation To Future-Proof SMBs With economies reopening and consumers rallying around their local shops, SMBs have had to hustle to up their online game. iZettle (A PayPal business) CEO Jacob de Geer tells Karen Webster how his new role as head of PayPalâs SMB solutions segment team is looking across the enterprise to fast-track digital commerce solutions that better serve the SMBâs customer â and help to future-proof their businesses. |
| Visa On The Role of âSuper Appsâ In Driving Emerging Market Growth Super Apps have become essential digital lifelines in emerging economies where cash is still king. Otto Williams, Visaâs vice president and head of strategic partnerships, fintech and ventures in Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa, tells PYMNTS how Visaâs recent partnership with Dubai-based rideshare platform Careem is helping to power a digital, inclusive payments ecosystem across the region. |
| Fostering Payments Trust In A Global Freelance Economy Digital marketplaces make it easier for companies to hire freelance workers anywhere in the world, but paying freelancers in a currency that isnât theirs can erode their trust. Iain McNicoll, Payoneerâs vice president of the Americas, and Miguel Warren, vice president and regional head for Southeast Asia, say offering other value-added services as part of the payments process â like early wage access and loans to freelancers â is one important step in that direction. |
| Traditional Healthcare Is Going Under The Knife Of Disruption The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare, technology and payments as never before: From telehealth and new financing options for patient treatments, to big retailers like Walmart, Walgreens and CVS mashing up retail with healthcare and everyone from startups to incumbents using the pandemic to disrupt — and reinvent — healthcare. We break it down. |
| The Consumer’s Digital Shift |
| What Digital 3.0 ‘Convenience Shifters’ Want From Merchants Digital 3.0 ‘convenience shifters’ are itching to get outside and have fun again, but they also simply adore touchless digital payments. Here’s what PYMNTS research says about a group of consumers who absolutely want the best of both the digital and physical worlds. |
| | KLW Commentary | | How To Drive Success In A Digital 3.0 World Thereâs endless debate about what will define success in a Digital 3.0 world. Karen Webster says that success will be those businesses â both physical and digital â that recognize that their biggest downside risk is a consumer who is willingly and, now comfortably, making her digital/physical tradeoffs to protect their own downside risk: their health and that of their loved ones. She says that it wonât be hard to spot the winners â it will be those most FIT® to meet the consumerâs digital-first needs. |
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