Mastercard: The Touchless And Caring Economies Are Boosting P2P Adoption The pandemic has been a boon for peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms that help consumers avoid handling cash, tip retail and restaurant workers and make charitable donations, according to Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of digital payments at Mastercard. She tells PYMNTS that other use cases will likely emerge because P2P is all about three things locked-down that consumers value right now â helping other people, staying connected and interacting meaningfully. |
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Dwolla CEO: The Paper Check-less Business Payments Sea Change Businesses have talked for years about pushing paper out of business payments, but Dwolla CEO Brady Harris says COVID-19 has finally forced that to become reality. Harris tells Karen Webster that the shift isnât a flash in the pan, but a permanent change. Hereâs why. |
How SMBs Could Edge Out eCommerce Giants This Holiday Season Many small merchants new to digital sales might feel outgunned by the likes of Amazon, but Kenny Tsang, managing director at cross-border payments service provider PingPong Payments, tells Karen Webster more agile players can quickly pivot to selling products that are suddenly hot with consumers. |
Fixing A Credit-Data Dearth That’s Hurting Lending More Than COVID-19 Being a good lender means having a great risk model and relevant and reliable credit data to feed it. It’s a problem that Matt Harris, co-founder and CEO of Bloom Credit, tells PYMNTS has been made worse by COVID-19 because of issues like banks reporting borrowers in forbearance as paying on time. He says Credit-Data-as-a-Service (CDaaS) is one part of the solution. |
ShoppingGives: When Philantrophy Makes Good Business For Retailers Social impact commerce platform ShoppingGives connects retailers, consumers and nonprofits at a critical time. CEO Ronny Sage tells PYMNTS he has been able to apply technology and a keen awareness of the business side of philanthropy to build a unique marketplace with retailers winning valuable side benefits in the process. |
| Next Gen Debit Tracker | Report: How Furniture Retailers Use Automation To Take Fraud Off The Table Consumers are using debit cards to buy big-ticket furniture pieces online and transform their homes into home offices. In the Next-Gen Debit Tracker, Ben Groom, global chief digital officer for furniture retailer Herman Miller, explains how new fraud tech will let consumers pay using funds on hand in their bank accounts without the fear of fraud. | |