| Banks tighten lending standards, NJ considers banning cashless stores, The making of a digital subprime marketplace | | | The Making Of A Digital Subprime Marketplace The recent government shutdown reminds us that many U.S. consumers live paycheck to paycheck and carry heavy debt loads. Yet digital marketplace platforms using sophisticated risk models provide new opportunities to reinvent the retail installment loan and serve such consumers â without charging interest fees. Marc Schneider, CEO and co-founder of Zebit, tells Karen Webster how he built such a marketplace and where he plans to take his model next. |
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| Integrating Payments Into The Workflow â And The Workforce The way businesses pay and are paid is ever-more intuitive, cued by the likes of Amazon and Uber. So it is â or should be â with corporate expense management for an increasingly tech-savvy, young and remote workforce. PEX Founder and CEO Toffer Grant tells Karen Webster how embedding payments into workflows via âimplied approval" can save money, and grant the greatest gift of all to companies and workers: time. |
| Google Feels The Cost-Per-Click Squeeze In Q4 Google grew its ad business 20 percent in Q4, which helped drive a Q4 earnings beat for Alphabet. However, cost-per-click was down, which worried investors in the face of growing competition from Amazon. Details here, including CEO Sundar Pichaiâs remarks on Google Home, Android and YouTube â and its increasingly connected ecosystem. |
| | Call Center Commerce Tracker™ | | Why Humans Still Run Bettermentâs AI-Powered Call Center When it comes to upselling financial products, bots can assist, but humans still run the show, says Julia Lowd, director of customer operations at online investment company Betterment. In the latest Call Center Commerce Tracker, she discusses how the robo-advising platform is using AI automation to complement, rather than replace, human interaction. |
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