Just because a week goes short, doesn’t mean it can’t be eventful. Last week it felt a bit like the news cycle decided to push 5 days of information into a 4-day period and hoped that everyone was ready for it. Payments and commerce had...
Some news cycles are, by nature, dark and cloudy, and with the passing of Senator John McCain, it seems that this news cycle will be one of them. A lion of the U.S. Senate and a genuine hero, Senator McCain will be deeply missed by...
Variety, we are told, is the spice of life — and it is important to always try new things. Sometimes this is very good advice, and it has forced a number of people out of a rut. But, of course, “a change will do you...
Summer 2018 is running down its final weeks. The heat is still going full speed ahead in most of the U.S., but stores are beginning to stock their festive fall wear, and the early marketing materials for pumpkin spice are beginning to rear their orange...
While generally aiming to be friction-free, a bit of striking out, a touch of competition and, perhaps, a slightly looming threat of disruption can have a stimulating impact. Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can...
A visit to a local bookshop (or to Amazon, more realistically for many of us) and a brief perusal of the self-help section will give one access to hundreds of options for improvement. That is unless the shopper is online, in which case they might...
While the world loves to pick winners and losers – and will occasionally turn things into horse races that possibly shouldn’t be – it is not always an easy thing to assess. Because in real life, as opposed to a game, there is no time...
Last week was one of those good news/bad news kind of weeks in payments where either every dark cloud had a silver lining or vice versa, depending on one’s perspective. New things started, old problems reoccurred, and by the end of the week, everyone was...
There are few experiences more disconcerting than the sudden onset of déjà-vu — the experience one is doing something they have done before. But when one spends enough time reading the latest and greatest of the payments and commerce news feeds, those déjà-feelings have a habit of recurring,...
