| The 2021 New Merchant Business Models Playbook |
| New Report: Square Speaks Out On SMBsâ 2021 Payments Survival Guide SMBs that have survived the impacts of the pandemic are now confronting new hurdles: winter and a potential second COVID-19 wave. In the 2021 New Merchant Business Models Playbook, Katie Swett Miller, eCommerce product lead at Square, runs down which payments and tech innovations restaurants and retailers must take into the new year â and what they should leave in the rearview mirror. |
| Mastercardâs Vosburg: Trusted Intermediaries Will Drive Consumer Data Aggregation With its recent acquisition of data aggregator Finicity, Mastercard has moved into the business of providing transparency and the secure exchange of data between banks and their customers. Craig Vosburg, Mastercardâs president for North America, tells Karen Webster that the consumer needs a trusted intermediary as the U.S. inches toward open banking. |
| Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations |
| NowRx: Digital Identity Benchmarks Help Healthcare Industry Set Tone For Privacy The rise of telemedicine services is forcing a greater need to secure the data that is exchanged. In this month's Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payment Regulations, Cary Breese, CEO of prescription delivery service NowRx, discusses the pandemic's impact on digital identity and privacy preferences â and how the healthcare industry is setting the benchmark for emerging privacy regulations. |
| Ingo CEO: Banks, FinTechs Need Better Data To Fight Mobile Check Deposit Fraud Check fraud costs banks billions and now banks are shutting off access to all but a very few to protect their downside. Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards tells Karen Webster that it’s time to re-examine mobile check deposit, and how to make it safe for the 95 percent of the customers who want to use it and are being shut off over fears of fraud. |
| | KLW Commentary | | Googleâs Super App Wakeup Call In June 2019, a third of U.S. consumers said sign them up for a super app experience, and Google and Amazon (in that order) were whom they trusted to deliver it. Less than a week ago, Google Pay introduced its redesigned app, one that Karen Webster says looks like and acts just like one. While itâs far too soon to tell whether Google Pay is super enough to become the go-to super app, she says it raises the bar for everyone. Especially Apple. |
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