Seated CEO: Itâs Time For Fine Dining To Join The Digital-First Fray Innovations to make quick-service restaurant (QSR) and fast casual digital-first experiences for diners are all the rage, but Seated CEO and Co-founder Brice Gumpel tells PYMNTS that itâs time for digital innovation to transform the fine-dining experience for post-pandemic gourmands as well. Hereâs their recipe for doing that. |
Are Banks Ready For The âLifestyle Changeâ Of Cloud Technology? COVID-19 might have accelerated banksâ digital migrations, but FOMO as the strategy for moving to the cloud risks missing out on its true value, warns Zohair Gangjee, business strategy lead for the global financial-service practice at Red Hat. Gangjee tells Karen Webster how banks and their DevOps teams can ensure that laggard financial institutions become leaders in modernization. |
Afterpay: What Retailers Are Now Learning To Do Differently The past six months have entirely changed the retail ecosystem â but the real change hasnât been toward digital-first, but toward omnicommerce, Melissa Davis, North America head at Afterpay, tells Karen Webster. Davis says the key is giving customers the same shopping journeys and payments options no matter what channel they choose to shop in. Hereâs why. |
The Specs on SPACs – And Why Blank-Check Firms Get Backing ‘SPACs,’ or ‘special purpose acquisition companies,’ have suddenly become the hottest thing in investing, raising money to buy a privately held firm that wants to go public without all of the paperwork. Are SPACs the wave of the future? We break it down. |
| Anatomy Of A Consumer Payment Playbook™ | Report: Helping Retailers Solve The Payments Piece Of The eCommerce Puzzle Six in 10 consumers are shopping more online and less in stores than they did before the pandemic, so removing friction from checkout is key. In the inaugural Anatomy Of A Consumer Payment Playbook, Rachel Wilkie, senior director of eCommerce for online footwear retailer Merrell, explains how innovations in payments is helping them attract customers and keep them loyal. | |