| At CES, Voice Plus Vehicles Jump Start The Connected Economy As various players strive to gain dominance in the growing and lucrative connected vehicle ecosystem, the connections between it and the larger digital and mobile economy are becoming clearer. Hereâs our look at how those trends are shaking out at International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and what the emerging connected economy will look like. |
| The Future Of FIs Is About Flexible Innovation The rise of FinTechs has changed the competitive landscape for banks. And, i2câs Head of Global Products Ava Kelly tells Karen Webster in a new podcast discussion â if a financial institution (FI) canât innovate, it wonât survive. Hereâs why, she says, the ones with flexible infrastructures are rising to the top â and those that aren't, canât afford to wait. |
| Tracing The Rise Of Multi-Issuer Mobile Wallets Mobile wallets are poised to gain traction in 2020 â but that doesnât mean things will be easy for the payment method that has often failed to meet expectations. Kevin Fox, executive vice president at NovoPayment, tells PYMNTS how tech can make mobile wallets more mainstream, how financial inclusion plays a role and why multi-issuer wallets can help unify regions via payments. |
| What Iran Can – And Won’t – Do In A Cyberwar A crippling cyberwar with Iran looms – or, maybe not. Samuel S. Visner, director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center tells Karen Webster what cyberweapons Iran can, but likely won't, unleash in response to the killing of Qassem Soleimani. He outlines the three things that help inform what could be a target and why. |
| | Key To Optimizing Merchant Services Playbook™ | | NEW DATA: Why 63 Pct Of Merchant Services Providers Want A Payments Overhaul More than 63 percent of merchant service providers (MSPs) want to overhaul their core payment processing systems so they can up their value-added services (VAS) game. Itâs tough, though, since many of these systems date back to the pre-digital era. In the new Optimizing Merchant Services Playbook, PYMNTS unpacks what 200 MSPs say is key to delivering the VAS agenda that is critical to their success. |
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