| Uber to buy Postmates, Amazon to expand grocery stores, Why it takes a village to build an instant payments ecosystem | | | It Takes A Village To Build An Instant-Payments Ecosystem The COVID-19 pandemic and the move to digital commerce that it has spawned is giving fresh impetus to the idea that payments must move from payer to payee in real time. But experts tell Karen Webster in our latest On the Agenda roundtable that making that happen is bigger than any one player. Hereâs how Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards; Visa Senior Vice President, Cecilia Frew; Manish Kohli, Citiâs global head of payments and receivables; PayPal Senior Vice President Jim Magats; and TCH Executive Vice President Russ Waterhouse see it all coming together. |
| Cedar CEO: Solving For Healthcareâs âBlack Boxâ Of Patient Billing Healthcare may be hopping on board the digital bandwagon, but the consumer facing billing process is anything but. That makes it harder for patients to understand what they owe and then for providers to collect whatâs due, CEO and Co-founder Florian Otto of Cedar tells Karen Webster. Otto says that self-service digital payments and customized payment plans can turn healthcare billingâs current âblack boxâ into a more efficient consumer payments process. Hereâs how. |
| How One Gig Platform is Reinventing The Gig Worker Experience By Boosting Their Wages The gig economy has been hard hit by the pandemic, as 40 percent of freelancers have lost thousands of dollars in potential top-line opportunities. But Steady CEO Adam Roseman tells PYMNTS how a ‘one-sided marketplace’ can help gig-workers select short- and long-term jobs to boost their top lines – and improve their money-management skills in the process. |
| What Q1 And Q2 Is Telling Us About The Rest Of 2020 We’re halfway through 2020, and what a long strange trip it’s been so far. Unfortunately, recent Business Roundtable figures point to more rough sledding ahead — particularly for retail, travel and dining. Uh oh. We break it all down. |
| | KLW Commentary | | The Vicious Circle Of Physical Retail Meets The Virtuous Circle of Digital What do Nike, Cornerstone Brands, PepsiCo and shopping malls have in common? Each holds clues into the future of physical retail, and Karen Webster says, whether it can make the quantum leap to digital that the pandemic has sparked. Webster says that the clash between the vicious circle of physical retail and the virtuous circle of digital has suddenly taken center stage with a future that seems more and more likely to accelerate the growth of digital and the decline of physical. Hereâs why. |
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