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Digital Payments

Africa’s Quiet Cashless Payments Revolution

There has been a quiet digital payments revolution in Africa over the last 15 year, DPO Group CEO Eran Feinstein told Karen Webster. One that has seen hundreds of millions of mobile money subscribers favor digital payments instead of cash. The new decade’s challenge, he said, is making those local digital wallets, global. Here’s DPO’s playbook for how to do that.

Curated Shopping Platforms

Why Experts – Not Influencers – Are Retail’s Next Big Thing

Name a product and there are dozens of “best of lists” for it. The problem, Curated co-founder and CEO Eduardo Vivas told Karen Webster, is the more specialized and expensive the product, the less helpful these “best of” lists can be. Here’s how a decade of buying the “best of” ski gear and a career in talent acquisition at LinkedIn led him to create an expert-driven shopping platform to help consumers get what’s best for them instead.

Innovation

CES 2020 Opens The Door On A New Decade

It promises to be a wild and innovative next 10 years in payments and commerce. And the latest International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January could help set the stage for those disruptions and trends. PYMNTS offers a navigational guide for what payments and commerce peeps might want to check out at this year’s event.

Welcome To The Connected Economy

It’s the first day of the first year of a brand new decade – one that promises to make the last one look like it was operating in slow motion. Karen Webster published a piece a few weeks back about the seven trendlines that she says will shape a decade that will see the shift from an apps-based economy that lives on mobile phones to one where commerce is on call, anywhere, anytime and via any device. Say hello — and raise a glass — to The Connected Economy.

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