| Digital-First App Usage Spells Future Of The Connected Economy Six in 10 bridge millennials and superconnected consumers use marketplace apps such as Amazon and Walmart more often now than they did before the pandemic began. The first installment of the How We Will Pay report series examines how these consumers' mobile shopping habits serve as canaries in the coal mine for whatâs to come next in the connected economy. |
| Mobile Payments Start A Revolution in Corporate Cards The stage is increasingly being set for mobile payments to help revolutionize corporate cards. David Wood, director of products at Conferma Pay, tells PYMNTS in a Masterclass that mobile payments provide a âconsumerizationâ experience for business essentials. |
| Touchless Payments Come To Healthcare (Finally) Having a customerâs credit card on file or being able to take payments online is a common practice for many retailers, but the healthcare profession still mostly relies on patients handing over co-pays in doctorâs office. However, Rectangle Health Chief Technology Officer Mike Peluso tells PYMNTS the pandemicâs push toward touchless payments is finally changing that. |
| Mastercard: Pandemic Pushes Treasury Banks To Prioritize Digital Payments COVID-19’s great digital shift has consumers and merchants demanding fast, easy and secure digital payments, and treasury banks are stepping up. Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard, tells PYMNTS her firm originally developed digital products like Mastercard Send for consumers, but is also seeing adoption for B2B payments and other use cases. |
| Podcast: Future of Retail |
| Debit and Credit Usage Stage Friendly Battle For Holiday Spend What will the holiday season and 2021 bring for retailers and their payments systems even after COVID-19 vaccines end the crisis? Randy Piatt, Ondot Systems’ head of product solutions, sees evidence that the pandemic-inspired rise of debit-card usage, contactless payments and other changes are possibly becoming permanent. |
| | PYMNTSTV: The Post-Pandemic Startup | | Got $25 Million? Six Payments Execs Share Their
Post-Pandemic Startup Ideas It's a startup boom! The pandemic is still raging, but vaccines appear close, VC funding rose by one-third year over year in Q3 and requests for employer identification numbers are at their highest level in 16 years. Six successful innovators, investors and serial entrepreneurs tell Karen Webster what post-pandemic business theyâd start if they had a cool $25 million to put to work. |
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