| How Squareâs Orders API Became Central To Its Strategy Square launched its Orders API this month, a response to growing merchant demand and the firmâs continued expansion of its omnichannel offerings. But more than a new offering, Square Developer Platform Lead Carl Perry tells PYMNTS, Orders API also marks the next phase of Squareâs evolving focus on creating end-to-end eCommerce management tools for sellers, beyond simple payments capabilities. These are the omni details. |
| SMBs Hang In The Balance Of Bank-FinTech Collaboration Small business banking has played a significant role in driving FinTechs and challenger banks to market. In the U.S., challenger banks still rely on bank collaboration, but as PYMNTS' latest Digital Banking Tracker shows, legacy FIs cannot ignore the competitive threat of their new peers or they risk losing SMB customers. |
| | Supply Chain Management | | When Micro Supply Chain Frictions Create Major Payment Bottlenecks Paper creates a lot of micro-inefficiencies down supply chains, like sluggish data entry and misplaced documents. Those small points of friction add up, says Turvo Co-Founder Jeff Dangelo. While promoting ePayments in logistics and supply chain processes is important, he tells PYMNTS why it's even more crucial to tackle the bottlenecks that occur before the act of the payment. |
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