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December 23, 2019

Best Of Monday Conversations

The Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In 2019

Texting can be efficient, but it is the art of the conversation that keeps us sharp. And over the course of 2019, we’ve had some great conversations on Mondays with some of the movers and shakers across payments and commerce. We learned, among other things, how to fight an international barrage of cybercriminals, why teaching financial responsibility has failed, why online lenders might not if the economy turns, and who has the superpowers in the grocery wars. Refresh your memory here.

 

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Credit Union Tracker™

Gulf Winds' Data Driven Approach To Member Retention

Research suggests that 40 percent of credit union members would leave their credit union (CU) for another financial institution (FI) that offers innovative banking services. In this month’s Credit Union Tracker, Gulf Winds Credit Union’s Vice President of Payments and eServices Haley Murph tells PYMNTS how they’re using new member feedback techniques and data analytics to predict the likelihood that members will switch — in an effort to get them to stay.

 

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Synthetic Fraud

Synthetic Fraud’s Slow Roll Across FIs

Account takeover tends to get a lot of the headlines, but synthetic ID fraud is the more insidious threat. Smart cybercriminals invest time and treasure in these slow burn frauds, GIACT CEO Melissa Townsley told Karen Webster, and financial institutions (FIs) need to start thinking out of the box if they want to beat it back.

 

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InsurTech

The Power Of THREE: Inside Berkshire Hathaway’s New SMB InsurTech Platform

Insurance is getting a makeover as digital technology ushers in a whole new way of doing business. Dave Stanard, chief small business advocate for a Berkshire Hathaway insurance platform called THREE Insurance, tells PYMNTS why the combination of Berkshire Hathway’s insurance experience, and digital direct to small- to medium-sized business (SMB) model delivers a complete bundle of SMB insurance with a three page contract.

 

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The Monday Conversation

Visa's Bill Sheley On What’s Next For Push Payments

Visa Direct first launched in a market ready to embrace real-time peer-to-peer (P2P) payments – and now supports more than 30 use cases covering a variety of immediate payment applications, both domestic and cross border. Visa Direct Global Head Bill Sheley spoke with Karen Webster about the three pillars of the Visa Direct strategy, the value the billions of Visa-enabled end points have for payments originators and the role that partnerships and acquisitions have, and will play, in scaling Visa Direct in the decade to come.

 

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