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Citi’s Kohli: Corporates And Banks Experiment To Drive Digital Business Models

In 2020, treasurers demanded digital solutions from their banks to promote business continuity through a disruptive market. This year, they have a different motive in mind. Citi Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli told Karen Webster that what treasurers today want from their banks are the tools that can elevate the value of digital-first business models.

Venture Investing

Rent The Runway’s Jennifer Fleiss On Giving Capital- Efficient Businesses An Edge

Capital-efficient, founder-led startups have avoided the high-stakes, big money world of venture capital — or it has avoided them. But an executive who learned a few lessons from that world, Rent the Runway Co-Founder and new venture partner at Volition Capital Jennifer Fleiss is now applying what she knows to that space. The key, she told Karen Webster, is giving founders a seat at the table post deal.

Next-Gen AR & AP Digitization Report

Salesforce Taps Account-To-Account Payments To Ease B2B Cash Flow Crunches

The pandemic's strain on B2B suppliers’ cash flows has left many scrambling for manual process alternatives. In The Next-Gen AR & AP Digitization Report, Pascal Yammine, Salesforce revenue cloud general manager, explains how tapping automated account-to-account payment tools can give vendors faster access to funds — and much-needed relief.

PYMNTSTV: Direct-To-Consumer

Just Do It: Brands Take D2C Retail Sales Page From Nike

Nike hit a three pointer at the buzzer in 2020 as it drove more than 35 percent of its sales from its own channel. But, as Scalefast’s CEO Nicolas Stehle said in a recent On The Agenda conversation with Karen Webster, even if every brand can’t be Nike, they can spin up retail tools like product drops and exclusive sales to build the right consumer experience.

Collectables Marketplace

Home Furnishings Marketplace Chairish Designs Its Future; Focuses On Customer, Payments Experience

After a 2020 that rode the ups and downs of the pandemic, Chairish is headed into this year with a realistic outlook and an acute sense of design. As Co-founder and President Anna Brockway told PYMNTS, a focus on the customer as well as new payments options are the keys to its strategy.

Report: Brazilian Consumers Think Digital And Want Merchants To Do The Same

The pandemic-driven digital shift is reverberating around the world — including in developing economies like Brazil’s, where consumers’ preference for digital commerce has grown 33 percent within the last year. In the Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition, PYMNTS reveals the five key trends transforming retail in Latin America’s largest country and what retailers must know to leverage them.

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