Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments
August 10, 2016

What have the powerhouses Starbucks and Airbnb managed to do better than anyone else? Establish customer intimacy, according to Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay. Clerico has built WePay from the ground up through his innate love of people and by building relationships with customers to...

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Inside PayPal’s Workforce Diversity Data
August 05, 2016

For the first time, PayPal is making the demographic information of its 18,000 available to the public. CEO Dan Schulman said on Thursday (Aug. 4) that the decision to share PayPal’s employee demographics is part of the company’s ongoing mission to build an inclusive and...

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Giving Payments Innovation To The Charity Market
July 27, 2016

As more people rely solely on digital payment methods, charity organizations that have traditionally been cash-only are feeling left behind. The July edition of the Developer Tracker™ features an interview with DipJar CIO Chris Whatley on how going digital can turn donations into an impulse...

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Making Donations An Impulse Purchase
July 26, 2016

As more people rely solely on digital payment methods, charity organizations that have traditionally been cash-only are feeling left behind. The July edition of the Developer Tracker™ features an interview with DipJar’s CIO Chris Whatley on how going digital can turn donations into an impulse...

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Visa/PayPal And The Future Of Payments
July 25, 2016

There’s no doubt that the announcement of the Visa/PayPal partnership shook the payments world more than a little bit last Thursday. Over the last year, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman made a point, every chance he could, to let everyone know that he was the chief...

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Payments Believe It Or Not
July 23, 2016

In 1918 a journalist named Robert Ripley animated a panel of “amazing facts,” most of which were about sports. Hence the name, Champs and Chumps. By 1932, Ripley’s little comic had grown into something of an American institution with 80 million syndicated readers nationwide and...

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Is AR Ready For A Digital Revolution?
July 21, 2016

Much like Netflix’s decision to embrace technology and introduce digital offerings — a move that revamped the company’s stronghold in the world of content streaming — many businesses are faced with their own digital dilemma. Adapt or possibly be left behind. Billtrust shares how digitization...

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Who’ll Be The ‘Netflix’ Of Payments?
July 18, 2016

Most people describe Netflix’s success as anticipating the shift from physical to digital media consumption. Karen Webster says that would be overlooking the real reason for its success — and what every other new or established matchmaker needs to understand as they work to get...

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Three Startups Shaping The Future of Commerce
July 11, 2016

Messaging. Social engagement. The API to rule them all. These three startups see a future that they can now take to the next level as winners of the recent Visa Everywhere Initiative competition. Karen Webster spoke to these three CEOs to get the inspiration behind...