| Visa On Its 1 Billion Token Milestone â And What Lies Ahead Visa has crossed a key milestone â 1 billion tokens issued since the company released the first one in 2014. Ansar Ansari, Visaâs senior vice president of product, digital solutions; and Alan Johnson, vice president of product, digital solutions; tell Karen Webster why Visaâs approach to tokenization goes beyond securing credentials on file at merchants and streamlining guest checkout. Hereâs their long-term road map. |
| PODCAST: Accounts Payable |
| OnPay: Why Itâs Time For AP Teams To Stop Talking And Start Transforming While accounts-payable teams continue to discuss the importance of digitization, many continue to ultimately stick to paper and avoid the costs of a digital overhaul. But an AP paradigm shift doesnât have to be massively disruptive or be expensive, says Julie Negrete-Anderson, OnPay Solutionsâ founder and chief operating officer. She tells Karen Webster AP teams can no longer afford not to take action in their modernization initiatives. |
| Inside Visaâs Plans To Get 50 Million SMBs Back On Track Suzan Kereere, Visaâs head of merchant sales and acquiring, tells Karen Webster that the global economic recovery wonât happen unless it happens for small business. Thatâs why, she said, Visa is rolling out a range of initiatives â from 'Street Teams' to Resource Hubs to help 50 million SMBs worldwide get back on their feet. Kereere takes Webster inside Visaâs plans to bring SMBs into a digital-first world. |
| Digesting The Payments Modernization ‘Elephant’ — Bite By Byte Financial institutions grappling with a growing tsunami of digital payments must modernize their infrastructure and back-end processes, say Vincent Caldeira, chief technologist, FSI, APAC at Red Hat; and Mick Fennell, head of payments at Temenos. In a virtual roundtable discussion with Karen Webster, the pair discuss how payments as a service can pay dividends in terms of top line while creating returns on investment — and prepping them for the major regulatory and standards migrations that are on the horizon. |
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| Kinn Studios Finds Its DTC Jewelry Legacy The Hard Way The theft of her family’s heirloom jewelry is what drove Kinn Studios founder Jennie Yoon to start her own jewelry business. Then, Yoon tells PYMNTS she made it her calling to provide consumers with fine jewelry that can serve as a key to their own family legacies. Here’s her story. |
| | Credit Union Innovation Playbook | | NEW DATA: How Credit Unions Are Innovating To Help Micro Businesses Thirty-six percent of credit unions say micro businesses form a âvery importantâ or âextremely importantâ part of their member bases, according to the PYMNTS latest survey on Credit Union innovation. In the Credit Union Innovation Playbook: Microbusiness Opportunity Edition, PYMNTS surveyed 100 credit-union executives to learn the five key innovations CUs must implement to best serve their micro-business members. Hereâs what they are. |
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