October 25, 2022
White House Recruits Uber, Walgreens in Anti-COVID Plan
Uber and Walgreens have launched a partnership with the White House to provide free deliveries of the prescription COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid straight to customers’ doorsteps. In an announcement published on...
October 24, 2022
API Economy Paves Path to ‘Embedded Everything’
Within financial services, a “plug and play” approach that’s been made easy by a surge in simple API installations is paving the way toward embedded everything. Not only is there...
October 19, 2022
South Korea’s Kakao Super App Outage Shows Risks of Living...
Technology makes everything easier. Except when it doesn’t work — and then makes everything harder. And if there is any indication that a “digital first” but not “digital only” mindset...
October 18, 2022
Former Grab Lending Head Joins Digital Lender Julo
The former head of lending for Grab Holdings, Ankur Mehrotra, is joining Indonesian fintech startup Julo, which focuses on digital lending, a Bloomberg report noted. Mehrotra was a former managing...
October 18, 2022
Data Powers New Possibilities for Logistics-as-a-Service
The middle mile and the last mile are getting a high-tech makeover. In a panel moderated by Jay Darnell, vice president, head of B2B partnerships at Visa Business, SmartHop Co-founder...
October 06, 2022
Gig Economy Work Gets Boost From Mobility Platforms in EMEA
The rise of mobility platforms such as the ride-hailing app Uber has transformed the way people move around cities. To date, the model has been compared to a digital taxi...
October 06, 2022
Macro Challenges Drive More Business to Full-Blown Payments Automation
In payments, change is slow, and then it happens quickly. That’s especially true in business-to-business (B2B) payments, where “the check is in the mail” gives way to the invoices sent...
October 03, 2022
What 2014 Teaches Us About the Future of Payments and...
In 1963, Nobel-prize winning physicist Dennis Gabor wrote that the future can’t be predicted, but it can be invented. Gabor, who won the Nobel for inventing the hologram, explained in...
September 27, 2022
For Buying, Selling and Financing, MEA Auto Markets Turn to...
In the September edition of the Expanding Payments Choice Playbook series, PYMNTS discusses the importance of end-to-end digital car buying, a mode of auto sales in which not only can...