Mike Camerling, CEO of AEVI, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. We cannot call 2018 a Year of Change, for that would imply that we completed a journey. Rather, we are changing — and are still in the early stages...
Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. B2B transactions can be a primary source of potential friction within a company. However, businesses are increasingly discovering solutions through collaboration. When suppliers, buyers, and solution providers...
Glenn Fodor, SVP and head of First Data Insights, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. Following a year characterized by the disruption of the retail landscape, the growth of digital payments, and significant mergers and acquisitions, 2018 began with many...
The news had come out, and it was very bad. Santa’d made his helpers really, really mad. The North Pole, they said, he’d tried to automate, but the local response had not been that great. ‘Twas the night before Christmas and 40 below: Santa’s self-driving...
There has been a lot of concern in recent years that conversation, as an art form, is dying. The BBC has written a think piece or two on it — as have the Guardian, the Citizen, the Huffington Post and MSNBC. What exactly is killing...
In life, change is the only constant, so why should it be different for payments? From cash to digital, from plastic cards to mobile wallets, from cash registers at the front of restaurants to tablets brought to tables (redefining the concept of “dine and dash”)...
Talk about poking a hornet’s nest. MPD Founder and economist, David Evans, wrote a piece on Friday about Apple Pay that got a lot of people talking. In it, Evans basically said that he was ready to make a call on Apple Pay and much...
“The path to any success is lined with disasters.” Adam Davidson wrote a pretty thought-provoking article on failure that was published in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago. This quote from his piece sums up his assertion that innovation today is a...
What a week for Apple Pay! CurrentC strong arms its merchants to switch off NFC so their customers can’t tap their spanking new iPhone 6s to pay—or for that matter anything else that uses NFC. Apple Pay gets even more publicity. Tim Cook then whacks...
