| Bottomline CEO: How FinTech Gets Creative To Extend Coronavirus Relief Not all businesses can produce masks or ventilators, but FinTechs are in a unique position to help extend relief to coronavirus-impacted SMBs. Bottomline CEO Rob Eberle tells Karen Webster how his company came to launch a solution designed to ease the PPP loan-application burden and how B2B FinTechs can help more broadly as massive disruptions force firms to prioritize payments and finance digitization. |
| Afterpay CEO On The Obstacles And Opportunities Growing Into The U.S. Market Launching in America is never an easy proposition for a start-up, even one thatâs enjoyed as much success in its home nation as Australian financial-technology company Afterpay had when it came here nearly two years ago. Co-founder and CEO Anthony Eisen spoke about the journey with Karen Webster â and what the company learned thatâs now driving its international expansion efforts. |
| Live Discussion: SMB Loan Rescue Program |
| Rebounding From SBAâs Bumpy PPP Roll Out The recent rollout of the Paycheck Protection Program â the U.S. government's emergency loan program for SMBs â wasn't a total fiasco, but it sure left a lot of frustrated people in its wake. Venture investor, Paul Purcell of Jupiter Management tells Karen Webster that he believes banks will ultimately overcome the program's problems, but not before the whole nation learns some important lessons on the challenges that come from pushing funds fast through a system custom-built to be slow and steady. |
| PSCU CEO On Credit Unions, Innovation And Never Taking Loyalty For Granted Credit unions enjoy 88 percent-plus loyalty among their members, but firms can’t rest of their laurels. That’s because 21.9 percent would consider leaving their CU if the company fails to innovate, according to the 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index. PSCU President and CEO Chuck Fagan tells Karen Webster that credit unions need a ‘full-scale, full-service' approach to innovation’ to keep up. |
| Leveraging Open Banking To Build The New Trust Ecosystem Despite all of the advances that digital financial services have made over the past decade, B2B and B2C payments journeys can still end up being messy, friction-filled and are in desperate need of modernization. But VoPay CEO and Founder Hamed Arbabi and Fiserv’s Paul Diegelman, vice president of digital payments and data aggregation, tell PYMNTS that existing technology tools can bust up the data silos causing these troubles. The only challenge, they say, is getting these tools into all the right hands. |
| | B2B API Tracker® | | Banking APIs Give Businesses An eCommerce Push Social distancing has changed eCommerce from a âwant to haveâ to a âmust haveâ for businesses, yet retailers could struggle to create convenient payment and refund experiences for their apps and websites, says Abdul Raof Latiff, head of DBS Bank's digital institutional banking group. In this monthâs B2B API Tracker®, Latiff explains how banks can provide a timely assist via application programming interfaces (APIs) that integrate payments into those eCommerce platforms. |
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