Banks prep for cyber apocalypse, Venezuela rolls out anti-trump petro crypto, Apple Pay Cash rolls out. | | Roomi: How To Trust But Verify Roommates Millennials are on the move, professionally. And in an age when apartment rents are rising faster than incomes, shared housing proves to be salvation â unless they choose the wrong roommate. As Ajay Yadav, CEO of Roomi, tells Karen Webster in the latest Topic TBD, the firm has created a platform to tap into the co-living trend that Yadav says has become a way of life for a more transient consumer. Read More... |
PARS For A New (B2B Payments) Course B2B payments are still mired in paper checks â but it neednât be so. Dean Leavitt, CEO and founder of Boost Payment Solutions, says suppliers hold the keys and there are now many ways to get them on board. One acronym that Leavitt says can guide the way: PARS. Read More... |
The Unexplained Edition: Bitcoin, Apple And The Gap One-hundred and forty-five years ago, the abandoned ship, the Mary Celeste, was found floating aimlessly without a crew in the Atlantic. The cargo was there, the boat was fine â the crew just, vanished. Admittedly, we donât have a mystery quite that good this week, but we do have these three: How does the bitcoin bubble keep growing? Why is Face ID hackable with masks? And what exactly happened on Black Friday that the (long-suffering) Gap managed to get declared the winner? The answer to these, and other pressing payments mysteries, here. Read More... |
| Contextual Commerce | What 'Spontaneous Commerce' Can Teach Online Retailers and Payment Providers Getting consumers to buy things they never planned on buying has been on every retailer's bucket list since time immemorial. Karen Webster says that understanding the profiles of those impulse buyers and how they drive "spontaneous commerce" also means understanding the role that payments now play in the process. She shows how new research â and a walk down retailâs impulse buying memory lane â can help online retailers and payments players drive the sales that are truly incremental. Read More... | | |
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