Opinion

Opinion
Payments Between Businesses as Seamless as Consumer Payments
April 20, 2022

The pandemic accelerated the digitization of the payments industry, with many businesses eschewing checks and cash in favor of electronic and contactless payments. Tomer Barel, chief operating officer at Melio, reflects on what that means in the B2B world in the PYMNTS eBook “Endemic Economics:...

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Subscriptions Go Mainstream and Get Creative
April 20, 2022

Subscriptions offer benefits to both merchants and consumers alike, writes Christopher Chiou, chief financial officer at sticky.io, in the PYMNTS eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the ‘Next Normal’ That Never Happened.” But consumers want more. To stand out in the crowded subscription space,...

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Innovations in Commerce
April 20, 2022

While the pandemic has slowed and life is returning to normal, the digital shift is here for good — along with the innovation era it ushered in, writes Jared Kernodle, chief revenue officer at Kount, in the PYMNTS eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on...

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2022: The Year for Learning and Evolution
April 19, 2022

Crypto and decentralized finance are changing the financial services landscape, writes Inmar Executive VP and President, FinTech John Helmle, in the PYMNTS eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the ‘Next Normal’ That Never Happened.” To avoid disintermediation, banks need to adapt and establish a...

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Innovation’s Impact on Payments Trends for CFOs in 2022
April 19, 2022

Whether it’s crypto, buy now, pay later, or digitizing and streamlining back-office operations, innovation is at the center of payments trends, writes Matt Clark, chief operating officer of Corcentric, in the PYMNTS  eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the ‘Next Normal’ That Never Happened.”...

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Blockchain, Digital Currencies Meeting Need for Financial Innovation
April 19, 2022

“Nobody knows how cryptocurrency will evolve in 2022, but one thing remains clear,” writes Jonathan Levin, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Chainalysis, in the PYMNTS eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the ‘Next Normal’ That Never Happened” — it’s here to stay. But only...

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Continuing Innovations Show Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Aren’t a Flash in the Pan
April 19, 2022

Cryptos have made inroads into the collective consciousness, and are making inroads, bit by bit, into mainstream commerce in ways that would have been scarcely imaginable only a few years ago, Shaun Worley, head of product at BitPay, writes in the PYMNTS eBook, “Endemic Economics:...

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Misses: Siloed Point Solutions; Hits: Consolidated, Integrated Scalable Software 
April 18, 2022

Too many accounting teams are still consumed with reconciling software systems that don’t talk to each other, manually consolidating data from multiple sources, chasing paperwork and building Excel sheets for reporting and analysis. It’s time for them to get off the treadmill and embrace a...

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B2B Payments Solutions — the Catalyst to Economic Recovery
April 18, 2022

As we shifted the way we work and spend money, the impact of that digital revolution was felt to a greater degree across the payments industry, writes NIUM Chief Product Officer Robin Gandhi in the PYMNTs eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments Execs on the ‘Next...