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Expertise On The Screen: The Best of PYMNTS TV
Expertise On The Screen: The Best of PYMNTS TV
January 01, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

We can’t put a final lid on the year 2020 without addressing the big issues, such as how we changed, what we learned, what’s coming...

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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation
The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation
December 31, 2020  |  Consumer Insights

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How Main Street Businesses Honed Their Survival Skills In 2020
How Main Street Businesses Honed Their Survival Skills In 2020
December 31, 2020  |  SMBs

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Highs And Lows Of 2020 Could Be 2021’s Dress Rehearsal For Bitcoin And Cryptos
Highs And Lows Of 2020 Could Be 2021’s Dress Rehearsal For Bitcoin And Cryptos
December 31, 2020  |  Cryptocurrency

This year is one for the history books for all sorts of reasons, not all of them bad. For cryptocurrencies, 2020 shaped up to be...

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What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic
What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic
December 31, 2020  |  News

In a year filled with unexpected challenges and a COVID-era economic climate that proved fatal for many companies, PYMNTS was lucky to hear directly from...

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Instacart, Affirm Lead 2021 IPO Candidates
Instacart, Affirm Lead 2021 IPO Candidates
December 30, 2020  |  IPO

Connected-economy companies led 2020’s surprisingly successful roster of U.S. initial public offerings, with hot firms like Airbnb and DoorDash going public at valuations that collectively...

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Seller Platforms And Digital Marketplaces Define B2B Payments For 2021
Seller Platforms And Digital Marketplaces Define B2B Payments For 2021
December 30, 2020  |  B2B Payments

The B2B payments ecosystem experienced a sudden and dramatic acceleration of change upon the onset of the global pandemic, and its impacts reach far beyond...

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Installment Payment Plans To Spur Merchant Growth In 2021
Installment Payment Plans To Spur Merchant Growth In 2021
December 30, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

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Mastercard’s Jess Turner: Pandemic Aside, Consumers Call The Shots
Mastercard’s Jess Turner: Pandemic Aside, Consumers Call The Shots
December 30, 2020  |  Consumer Payments

If there’s a word that captures the state of financial services in 2020, it’s “acceleration.” Between the explosion of the digital economy driven by the...

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