| Mastercard: Consumer Experience Is Loyaltyâs New Currency Points and rewards are still important and relevant, but mean nothing without a positive customer experience, Mastercard Loyalty and Engagement President Francis Hondal tells Karen Webster. She adds that the digital shift is making a reimagining of loyalty programs urgent. |
| 5G And The Connected Economy |
| 5G Adoption Set To Accelerate Next Year Itâs been a wild year for 5G, with conspiracy theorists at one point inexplicably blaming the new data-network technology for causing COVID-19. But Cellwize Chief Operating Officer Dan Weil tells PYMNTS that far from slowing 5Gâs adoption down, the crisis has actually accelerated it by showing how badly the world needs the systemâs advanced speeds. |
| Financial Literacy For Teens |
| FinTech Step Aims To Create The Concept Of âFamily Bankingâ A 6-year-old recently racked up $16,000 of charges for online gaming on his Momâs iPad, while a teenager put a dent in his dadâs checking account playing Fortnite. Such tales donât surprise Step CEO CJ MacDonald, who says that schools and families do a bad job teaching kids about money. That's why Stepâs âfamily banking servicesâ â bank accounts and payment cards for teens â come with built-in budgeting and financial-education tools. |
| Payments Orchestration Helps Digital Goods Companies Make The Instant Sale ‘Payments orchestration’ is the choreography behind being able to access different payments gateways and services. Spreedly’s Luke Evans and Peter Mollins, tells PYMNTS that it means the difference between a merchant getting digital goods to an end user who pays instantly — or losing a sale entirely. |
| Car Wars: Apple And Tesla Could Go Head-to-Head By 2024 Look out, Tesla: Apple is planning to build its own self-driving electric car. The timing of such a venture coincides with the gradual but broad industry effort to make driverless cars a reality — an advance that’s almost entirely linked to technology rather than traditional mechanical engineering. Something that's right in Apple’s wheelhouse. |
| | Digitizing B2B Payments Tracker | | AI, Automated Tools Root Out The Dental Industry's Insurance Payout Pains Sluggish, paper-based insurance claims and payouts can leave dentists waiting weeks or even months to get paid â delays that can impact their cash flows. In this month's Digitizing B2B Payments Tracker, Arthur Schoen, vice president at Aspen Dental Management, explains how insurance providers use artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools to process and pay claims faster. |
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