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Sesame Launches Direct-To-Consumer Healthcare Marketplace

Sesame Launches Direct-To-Consumer Healthcare Marketplace
Sesame Launches Direct-To-Consumer Healthcare Marketplace
September 09, 2020  |  Healthcare

The American healthcare system is sick — a story told in a runaway cost structure, subpar patient outcomes, frustrated physicians and what Sesame CEO David...

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How Music Retailers Keep Card-Not-Present Fraud From Sounding A Sour Note
How Music Retailers Keep Card-Not-Present Fraud From Sounding A Sour Note
September 09, 2020  |  Next-Gen Debit

The COVID-19 pandemic is shaking up shopping behavior. Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals...

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Amazon Pay: How Brands Can Create Trusted Conversations With Consumers Online
Amazon Pay: How Brands Can Create Trusted Conversations With Consumers Online
September 09, 2020  |  eCommerce

There are many ways to mark the massive shift to digital that’s happened in the past six months, from baby boomers who’ve moved online after...

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Brands Go Direct To Consumer Online: Now What?
Brands Go Direct To Consumer Online: Now What?
September 09, 2020  |  eCommerce

Bringing a brand directly to consumers over digital channels was an option to consider in the pre-pandemic world — but the question for brands today...

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Hitting The Gas On Real-Time Payments Adoption
Hitting The Gas On Real-Time Payments Adoption
September 09, 2020  |  Faster Payments

The year 2020 has been an unexpected one, to say the least — not least of all for the payments ecosystem. This year was supposed...

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New Report: A Merchant’s How-To Guide To Reopening Retail Stores
New Report: A Merchant’s How-To Guide To Reopening Retail Stores
September 09, 2020  |  SMBs

The social distancing and stay-at-home orders intended to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak have been devastating to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), with...

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Middesk CEO On Helping FIs And FinTechs Derisk KYB
Middesk CEO On Helping FIs And FinTechs Derisk KYB
September 08, 2020  |  B2B Payments

When the U.S. rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), it lifted the veil on one of the biggest friction points in business banking today....

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Wardrobe: Recommerce Meets The Sharing Economy In Bid To Become The ‘Airbnb of Fashion’
Wardrobe: Recommerce Meets The Sharing Economy In Bid To Become The ‘Airbnb of Fashion’
September 08, 2020  |  Retail

The reCommerce business has met the sharing economy. That’s the oversimplified view of the business model adopted by Wardrobe, a new kind of peer-to-peer fashion...

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Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change
Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change
September 08, 2020  |  Retail

Consumers are living in stressful times, and Patrick Gauthier, vice president at Amazon Pay, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that merchants working to prepare...

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