| Visa Network Will Settle Transactions In Crypto, First Use Case USD Stablecoin Bridging digital and fiat currencies is key to Visaâs ânetwork of networksâ strategies. Today, it announced that it will settle in cryptocurrencies over the Ethereum blockchain on the Visa network. Visaâs Vice President and Head of Crypto Cuy Sheffield told PYMNTSâ Karen Webster that the first use case will be the dollar-denominated USD stablecoin. |
| Delivering On Restaurant Rewards |
| NEW REPORT: Where Restaurants Should Look For New Loyalty Opportunities Fifty-six percent of married couples donât use table-service restaurantsâ loyalty programs simply because they donât know they exist â a missed opportunity for restaurants. In Delivering On Restaurant Rewards, PYMNTS surveys 2,149 consumers to learn how different types of U.S. households order food and how loyalty programs can boost their spending. |
| BlueVineâs Allocca: SMB Growth Demands New Vision For Loan Underwriting Traditional small business loan underwriting has one goal: connect a business to capital. BlueVine Chief Operating Officer Steve Allocca tells Karen Webster why banking and credit must intersect to rethink how small businesses are financed and pursue a different goal: to support the long-term financial health of the business borrower. |
| Credit Union Digitalization |
| PSCU: CUs Protect Member Base With Touchless Tech The typical credit union has had to pivot during the pandemic and reevaluate its digital strategy. CUs have had to examine what they’ve been missing, what they need to do more of — and what worked well. As PSCU Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President Denise Stevens told PYMNTS, CUs are all-in on digital — and they need to move from “good” to “great” in their execution. |
| Will WeWork Work In SPAC Land? Just because a company can go public doesn't mean it should. WeWork’s announcement that it will go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger raises more than a few red flags a year after it first tried to go public. |
| | KLW Commentary | | We've Seen The Future of Retail â And It's At The Grocery Store If retailâs success in 2021 and beyond will be defined by logistics, then grocery is where weâll see this unfold, as a small number of platforms at scale will emerge over time to influence the consumerâs relationship with buying food. The grocery store winners will recognize that consumers want to increasingly make ordering and logistics the supermarketâs problem to solve â not theirs. And, as goes grocery, so goes the rest of retail. |
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