Beyond the fitness tracker, wearables are catching on. Get ready for the device as data conduit, as tracker of different sorts, from patient information to logistics monitor for manufacturing firms. In the latest Topic TBD, FitPay CEO Mike Orlando tells Karen Webster the stage is...
B2B as eCommerce bastion of innovation? Not so farfetched, as traditional banks grapple with shifting business models, and Amazon disintermediates middlemen. In the latest Topic TBD, MSTS President Brandon Spear says smaller firms offering value add from bundled B2B functions, from credit to invoicing, can...
Know your customer. Know your customer’s customer. Commerce is a linked chain and for FIs, what they do not know will hurt them. In the latest Topic TBD, Jane Hennessy, G2 Web Services’ head of external relations, relates how reputation monitoring can make all the...
Two hundred and thirty four million passengers — and that’s on the U.S. airlines alone. The summer’s a long and hot one for airlines and passengers alike, especially when delays and other complications set in. How to get paid for (wasted) time? Many passengers don’t...
In just three years, everything from running shoes to baby monitors could become a point-of-sale device as 30+ billion connected devices are payment-enabled. In this week’s Topic TBD, Melissa Townsley, CEO of GIACT, joined Karen Webster to discuss why keeping those transactions safe must accelerate...
Every “next big idea” needs a little help getting off the ground to make the leap from dream to reality. One reality is payments — no young business can thrive if customers find friction in payments. In the latest Topic TBD, Plasso CEO Drew Wilson explains how...
B2B payments lag the consumer world when it comes to embracing technology and abandoning the paper check. But that may be about to change. In the latest installment of PYMNTS Topic TBD, PayStand CEO Jeremy Almond discusses how companies can traverse the last mile of tech...
Friday the 13th, the date of our latest Topic TBD, brings images of bad luck — from black cats to ladders you shouldn’t walk under. But for financial institutions grappling with, and losing business to, upstart FinTechs, is every day Friday the 13th? Not if FIs adapt...
The emotional rollercoaster ride that is gift giving can be smoothed out a bit with intelligent choices aided by new technology, says Ben Strenitz, cofounder of SmartGift. He offers his take on the age of millennials and curated gifting experiences in the latest episode of...
