| Mastercard And TabaPay On Accelerating Instant Payments Cross pollination between FinTechs and established payments players can speed digital paymentsâ advance, leveraging the formerâs tech and the latterâs scale. In a new Masterclass video with Karen Webster, Mastercardâs Executive Vice President of Digital Partnerships Sherri Haymond, TabaPay Co-founders Manoj Verma and Rodney Robinson discuss the role of partnerships in scaling solutions that provide financial services to those who need it the most. |
| PODCAST: Payments Innovation And Travel |
| Fiserv: Payments Will Decide Travel Industryâs Winners And Losers In The 2020s As the travel and hospitality industry embraces better tech and the disruption that comes from it, payments are emerging as a way to judge winners and losers in the space. Jacob Buckstead, Fiservâs head of Travel & Hospitality Solutions, tells Karen Webster why mobile wallets could serve as a game-changer for some travel operators, and how theyâre innovating loyalty programs for increasingly energetic millennial and Gen Z travelers. |
| PODCAST: Unattended Retail |
| USAT: For Unattended Retail, The Tech's The Limit Vending machines and kiosks â and other forms of unattended and self-service retail, are quickly growing up, and thatâs providing opportunities to sell larger-ticket items â and to otherwise deepen and personalize the customer experience. Paul Stadler, senior vice president at USA Technologies, tells PYMNTS how machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are helping create more sophisticated unattended retail, and how the rollout of new payment methods and EMV in the U.S. is helping. |
| Apple CEO Says Apple Card, Installment Plans Juiced iPhone Sales The iPhone was back in the limelight for Apple this earnings report as sales came in far higher than analysts expected. For that result, CEO Tim Cook noted, the Apple Card and its installment payments on iPhones deserve a lot of praise. But for all cheerleading in the aftermath of the earnings report — there is a hint of uncertainty on the horizon in the form of the Wuhan coronavirus and the effect it will have on Apple’s supply chain and China sales. |
| | Digital-First Banking Tracker™ | | BMO On Taking A Digital-First Approach To Retail Banking Bank customers increasingly prefer self-service transactions over branch visits, and financial institutions (FIs) are meeting them where they are. Investments in features such as remote authentication, mobile deposits and iATMs are delivering digital conveniences â and yielding unexpected benefits for staff. In this monthâs Digital-First Banking Tracker, Kyle Barnett, chief operating officer for personal and small business banking at BMO, discusses how these technologies have allowed staff to focus on more complicated transactions, while unlocking operational efficiencies and reducing costs. |
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