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April 5, 2019

Pot Payments

The Next Big Cashless Play: Cannabis

Legal cannabis presents a rare opportunity for payments to move cash to digital. However, faulty perceptions could hold FIs back. Green Bits CRO Charlie Wilson tells Karen Webster how the legal landscape will soon change for pot payments, and about the homework that payment players must do now to realize those gains.

 

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Retail Reinvention

Retail, RFID And Real-Time Sales

No more sales associates stressing to figure out whether more red sweaters, size M, need to be reordered or just put back on the right shelves. In a new PYMNTS interview, RADAR CEO Spencer Hewett tells Karen Webster how RFID can cost-effectively crack the apparel store’s mystery inventory problems, and drive more sales.

 

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PODCAST: Matchmaker Is In

One-Stop Digital Procure-To-Pay For One-Person Shops

Entrepreneurs start businesses for many reasons. For HoneyBook CEO and Co-founder Oz Alon, it was because he was starting to become like his father: a solo entrepreneur with paper invoices and proposals all over the house. The HoneyBook digital platform, which just raised $28 million, solves the paper and payment problem for solopreneurs. Here’s how.

 

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Gig Economy Index™

How Gig Work In The US Became A Career

For a growing share of Americans, “side gigs” are now main gigs. In Q4 2018, nearly 40 percent of non-seasonal gig workers didn’t have a regular job, and instead pursued gig work year-round — an 18 percent increase since Q3 2018. In the latest edition of the Gig Economy Index, PYMNTS surveys more than 10,000 Americans and discovers the three big factors driving the rise in career gig workers.

 

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