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ThomasNet CEO: How A 122-Year-Old Company Sees B2B Payments Evolution

Strategic supplier sourcing is getting a new lease on life with B2B payments playing a greater role in helping buyers and suppliers choose who they do business with and why. In this week’s Monday Conversation, Karen Webster and ThomasNet President and CEO Tony Uphoff talk about how payments and new tech are driving this strategic supply chain shift.

Subscription Commerce

Hulu: Why Championing Choice Is The Future Of Streaming Subscriptions

Consumers have no shortage of options when it comes to subscription streaming services — so how to stand out? Hulu Vice President Rafael Soltanovich told PYMNTS it’s all about customer choice — from content to checkout: ensuring customers can get what they really want and rethinking how and why consumers churn.

Bank Innovation

Banking-As-A-Service’s Secret Sauce

Banks are standing more often these days on the precipice of innovation, assuming they work well with FinTechs and listen to customers. But challenges abound, as Anabel Perez, NovoPayment CEO and co-founder, told Karen Webster in a recent PYMNTS discussion. And why application programming interfaces (APIs) are a big part of enabling the banking-as-a-service capabilities that FIs and FinTechs both need and want.

Connected Cities

Cybercrime’s New Stomping Grounds: Smart Cities

The smart city is coming!  Which means a wave of cybercriminals are likely coming too. And by likely coming — we mean already here. Here’s why it won’t be long before hackers could start to hijack things a lot scarier than just a city’s computer networks.

Why Consumers Are Firing Traditional Retailers

Retailers have one job to do — connect consumers with the products they want to buy however and wherever the consumer wants to buy and take delivery of them. Karen Webster says that consumers have not only stopped hiring traditional retailers to do that job, but have fired them from the jobs they had once held years and decades before. Here’s why — and why she says it’s time for retailers to really walk the omnichannel and digital-first talk.

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