| SoFi user base triples, Restaurant association seeks bailout, Village MD CEO on Walgreen’s partnership | | | VillageMD CEO: How The Walgreenâs Partnership Can Fix Whatâs Broken In Primary Healthcare VillageMD recently cut a deal to open as many as 700 clinics in Walgreens stores around the country. Tim Barry, VillageMDâs co-founder and CEO, tells Karen Webster thatâs part of the plan to make primary medical care more accessible to the 20 percent of Americans whose chronic conditions account for 85 percent of U.S. healthcare spending. Hereâs how it will work. |
| Virtual-Card Adoption â Not An âAll-Or-Nothingâ Strategy While chief financial officers are accelerating their payments-digitization agendas, a lack of vendor acceptance can quickly lead to AP teams putting the kibosh on virtual cards. But companies donât have to entirely clear the hurdle of supplier acceptance for a v-card program to succeed, says OnPay Solutions President and CEO Neal Anderson. He tells Karen Webster how finance teams can target those who could get the most value from v-cards and be part of a digital payments mix. |
| Banks Must Look Beyond Speed To Optimize Digital Account Opening Branch closures have forced financial nstitutions (FIs) to accelerate their digital-account offerings for consumers whoâve long desired a better onboarding experience. But speed is only one part of the value proposition. Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of NCR Digital Banking, tells Karen Webster that FIs must revise their priorities if their onboarding strategies aim to promote not just more accounts, but long-lasting customer relationships. |
| How One Startup Is Reinventing Travel Insurance For The Post-Pandemic World What would happen if getting paid for a travel-related claim happened the instant that something went wrong and without filing out any paperwork? Koala CEO Ugo Weyl tells PYMNTS how tracking the traveler’s trip in real time – and then instantly putting funds into their bank account – is changing the travel insurance game – and the consumer’s incentive to buy it. |
| Why Large Retailers Are Mandating Masks Walmart and Kroger joined Starbucks, Best Buy and other retailers that are mandating that customers wear masks when shopping in their stores. The mandate is a strong signal that they recognize the importance of giving consumers confidence that it’s safe to shop in their stores. And, a great example of the Digital 3.0 FIT ® framework in action. |
| | Payments Orchestration Playbook | | Can Mobile Solve A Cityâs Transit Payment Challenges? With countries around the world reopening their borders, consumers are eager to travel â but want to do so in a germ-free, contactless way. That can be a problem when one city's transit system accepts cards while anotherâs runs on cash and tokens. In this monthâs Payments Orchestration Playbook, David Block-Schachter, chief business officer at Transit, explains how mobile-enabled transit fare payments can solve for the issue for consumers traveling across borders. |
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