| How kimkim Uses Faster Payments To Win Gig Worker Loyalty Individual gig workers can spend days â or even weeks â each year tracking down late payments for work sourced through online marketplaces. Thatâs why providing faster payouts is not just a perk, but a necessity for gig platforms to thrive. In the inaugural Gig Economy Tracker, Yunyi Fu, head of product for travel platform kimkim, tells PYMNTS how the company wins the loyalty of its freelance travel experts in 70 countries via faster payments. |
| Data Sharing: The Magic Merchants Need To Smooth The SCA Speed Bumps The rollout of the SCA portion of PSD2 has been a bit bumpier and more delay-ridden than initially expected. The good news, Ekata's EMEA General Manager Spencer McLain tells Karen Webster, is merchants are almost uniformly aware they'll have to adapt. The less good news, is they're not clear on how to. Data has to start moving between merchants, PSP and issuers ASAP â or there wonât be enough clarity to collectively make the late 2020 deadline. |
| Trust And Speed Light A New Path To Omnichannel Retail Nothing is getting easier for retailers, but success isnât entirely elusive and omnichannel can win and retain customers. In a new webinar, Karen Webster and Amy Parsons, senior vice president of global acceptance at Discover Financial Services and its payments brand, Discover Global Network, discuss why a digital-first approach to merchant payments is key â and how voice and other new tech promise to offer significant help. |
| The Senior Factor In Smart Home Innovation Conversations about the connected home and its development tend to focus on millennials and younger consumers. But with 25 million Americans entering the post 65-phase of their lives in the next decade, it may be older Americans — and the need to find more efficient ways to apportion healthcare services to them — who wind up being a central part of how smart tech evolves in the home. Here’s our look. |
| | State And Local Disbursements Report™ | | Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check Despite consumers' affinity for instant payments, many state and local governments use legacy methods like paper checks for disbursing funds to consumers. In the new State And Local Government Disbursements Report, PYMNTS talks with representatives from local governments in Oregon, Tennessee and Texas to find out why checks persist and what it will take to replace them. |
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