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PYMNTSTV: B2B Marketplaces

Simplicity Defines Success For Cross Border B2B Marketplaces

B2B marketplaces have seen a massive change as businesses are looking for better, smoother and more digitized ways to initiate and complete payments with each other, especially cross border. Limonetik CEO Christophe Bourbier, tells Karen Webster that success will mirror that of B2C payments: simplicity.

PYMNTSTV: Credit Innovation

CUs Play To Win The Credit ‘Competition’ Against Larger FIs

A preference for debit cards among members was a somewhat surprising development for credit unions in 2020. But as PSCU CEO Chuck Fagan told Karen Webster, the opportunity is wide open for CUs to develop new credit products that maintain the personalized relationship for which CUs are known.

PYMNTSTV: Real Time Fraud

Putting Speed Bumps In The Path Of Real-Time Payments Fraud

Faster payments — and wire transfers — are hardly immune to fraud. It’s an issue that’s high on the agenda as Featurespace's Senior Vice President of Global Product Management Dena Hamilton told PYMNTS who must confront the instant and irreversible nature of new fraud prevention challenges.

Digital Wallets

Eco Channels Starbucks To Create Primary Digital Accounts

Is 5 percent cash back on every purchase enough to get consumers to give up their bank accounts for a new completely digital one? Eco CEO Andy Bromberg is betting it is, with a brand-new digital wallet that takes its business model cues from Starbuck’s mobile wallet success.

Grocery Innovation

Good Eggs’ Grocery Delivery Expands the Concept of Local Eating

Good Eggs may be named with a pun, but it takes that name seriously. As CEO Bentley Hall told PYMNTS, for a smaller local delivery company to hold its own in this crowded landscape, it must work with its size, not against it.

Data-Driven: Vroom CEO Takes Fast Lane to Car Buying’s Connected Economy

Data and devices are the fuel of the connected economy. And as Vroom CEO Paul Hennessy told Karen Webster, that connected economy is poised to use data and a digital front door to disrupt the way we buy and sell cars – and what we do with them after the deal is done.

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