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LTK’s Ulrich on How Payments and AI Turn Creators Into Shoppable Stores
Social Commerce // October 30, 2023

Creators wield significant influence in commerce — when they recommend products, they inspire and shape their followers’ choices. But the journey from inspiration to purchase is often encumbered by multiple steps like social media scrolling, product searching, link hunting, and price comparisons. This can discourage...

52 Mondays 2021: And Just Like That, The Connected Economy Takes Off
Karen Webster // December 27, 2021

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52 Mondays 2020: The Year Of Speed, Scale And Seismic Shifts in Payments
Karen Webster // December 28, 2020

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Mastercard’s New President Of Europe On EU’s Digital Payments Transformation
Digital Payments // June 08, 2020

The pandemic has introduced new variables into innovations, payments and commerce — setting up headwinds in some cases as businesses shutter, and tailwinds as consumers and enterprises embrace digital transactions by necessity. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Interviews & Exclusives
When AI Becomes the Travel Agent, Who Owns the Journey?

August 17, 2026
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Mastercard’s New President Of Europe On EU’s Digital Payments Transformation

June 08, 2020
The pandemic has introduced new variables into innovations, payments and commerce — setting up headwinds in some cases as businesses shutter, and tailwinds as consumers and enterprises embrace digital transactions...

You Heard It Here First: Best Of 2018’s Monday Conversations

December 24, 2018
There has been a lot of concern in recent years that conversation, as an art form, is dying. The BBC has written a think piece or two on it —...

WePay: ISOs, ISVs And The Future Of PayFacs

April 23, 2018
The road to becoming a payments facilitator, according to WePay founder Rich Aberman - is long, expensive and technologically complex. For some ISOs and ISVs, he noted, it is also...