Request-to-pay features have emerged with promises to benefit merchants, financial institutions and billers. The message exchange service allows payees or creditors to collect a payment from a debtor or payer. As a result, payees can benefit from increased control over the payment process, accelerate incoming...
Sometimes, money is good – and sometimes, just getting bills paid at the end of the month can be a struggle. For consumers struggling to make ends meet, taking out a personal loan can be an important step to getting their financial lives back on...
As consumers get more comfortable doing all types of different transactions on their phones, they’re bringing those same connected expectations for convenience and security to their cars and trucks. For Michigan-based Gentex Corporation, that path forward comes in the form of three “transactional vehicle offerings”...
Alexa and voice AI is to the connected economy what Microsoft was to the PC in 1990 and what iOS and Android were to smartphones in 2008: the operating system that will help it scale. Microsoft’s Windows 3.0 operating system turned computers with DOS and...
The car — that steel horse that’s the main way we get to where we need to go — is rapidly becoming a conduit of commerce. And as that happens, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), or car manufacturers in this case, have the ability to deepen...
You’ve heard it many times before. After 18 months of lockdowns, social distancing and other restrictions, people are eager to go back into the physical world again. What’s changed is that before heading out, consumers are now checking online to make sure the business they’re headed to has what they want and is going to be open. According to the 2021 August Global Insights released...
The ability for safe drivers to share their actual on-the-road data with their insurance company and then be compensated in the form of lower auto premiums that reflect their conscientious cruising seems like a perfect arrangement. This as two of the world’s largest automakers signed...
In the connected economy, consumers want to simplify how they access the many things that were once resident in individual apps on their phones. The far-flung data that is created as consumers research, browse and transact — in essence the information that follows them around...
As restaurant aggregators compete to stand out in the crowded space, and with supermarkets pouring resources into setting their digital grocery offerings apart, Walmart is cutting out the middleman and heading straight for the top. The retailer is making a play to be consumers’ one-stop shop...