The wave of digitization that has picked up incredible speed in banking over the past half year isn’t strictly a new trend, Randy Piatt, head of product solutions for Ondot Systems, told PYMNTS. Long before the pandemic, consumers were trending toward digital in their financial...
In corporate banking, the unified, holistic view — of where payments are going, what’s coming in and what it means for cash accounts — is key for modern financial services to be, well, modern. In a podcast interview with Karen Webster, Harpreet Grewal, chief operating...
As 2020 limps toward its exhausting conclusion, get ready for a massive rebound in 2021 — for consumer spending, for small- to medium-sized businesses’ (SMBs’) top lines, and for the U.S. economy in general. Maybe not. In an interview with Karen Webster, MerchantE Chief Financial...
For financial institutions (FIs), five years from now, the data center will be but a memory. In an interview with Karen Webster, Vijay Oddiraju, founder and CEO of Volante, said that technological agility is critical to creating efficient (and fast) payment systems as FIs pivot...
The small- and medium-sized business (SMB) ecosystem’s pace of digitization has been incredibly fast in the past six months — so much so that it disguises the fact that the digital transformation has actually been underway for years. Iain McNicoll, Payoneer’s vice president for SMBs...
Winston Churchill is often credited with the expression: “Never let a crisis go to waste.” It is up for debate whether he actually coined the phrase, as there are no recordings or writings of Churchill that include it, though contemporaries recall him saying it. Apocryphal or...
The coronavirus has spurred a seismic shift in commerce, moving shopping into the digital realm. Consumers are buying anything (and seemingly everything) and conducting all manner of everyday business online because that is their only option. In an interview with Karen Webster,...
At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check. Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout method for consumers across all manner of business-to-consumer (B2C) interactions. In an interview with Karen...
Certain things will never change when it comes to travel and hospitality. Consumers will always want clean rooms, punctual flights and polite staff. Even so, significant changes, many brought about by younger consumers and increasingly digital operations, are producing shifts in the hospitality industry — shifts...
