| Roundtable: Should Tech M&A Be Locked Down During The Pandemic? The pandemic has forced many aspects of business life to pause, including much of the action in mergers and acquisitions. Now, some lawmakers even want to ban M&A until the economy returns to normal. Karen Webster hosted a live roundtable with six experts from the academic, legal, regulatory and investment realms on how merger policy should change now â if at all â and whether Big Tech deserves the scrutiny thatâs come its way. Hereâs what you missed. |
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| ECB: Setting The Stage For Pan-European Real Time Cross-Border Payments Sweden recently became the first nation outside the eurozone to join TIPS, the European Central Bankâs real-time payment platform â setting the stage for other countries to do so in the future. In the latest Faster Payments Tracker®, PYMNTS spoke with the European Central Bank to understand how Swedenâs decision to join up lays the legal and technical framework for Pan-European real-time cross-border payments. |
| How To Make Instant Payments Ubiquitous From shopping, to gaming, to public disbursements, the last few weeks have been an object lesson for the entire world about how much the world needs instant payments now. The only way to do that, Ingo CEO Drew Edwards told Karen Webster, is to make instant payments ubiquitous â and that means giving people as many options to receive a payment as they have today to make one. |
| Why Fraudsters Like ‘Delivery Attacks,’ And Why AI and ML Alone Won’t Stop Them Lockdowns tied to the pandemic have spurred criminals to shift their cyberfraud schemes and exploit new avenues of attack. Carl Tucker, vice president of managed risk services at CyberSource, tells PYMNTS how advanced technologies can help detect and prevent some of these, but warns that artificial intelligence and machine learning alone won’t get the job done. |
| Why Consumers Are Embracing Digital Life — And Why 23 Pct Will Leave Offline Behind It will take more than just the 'Great Reopening' of brick-and-mortar stores, theaters and restaurants to lead to a great reopening of consumers’ wallets and purses. Instead, months of stay-at-home orders have created a digital seismic shift that could permanently upend daily life. Here’s why a significant number of U.S. consumers might stay with commerce done in bits and bytes even after the U.S. economy opens back up. |
| | Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker™ | | Igloo On Payments As A Strategy, Not Just A Way To Pay As summer approaches, consumers are letting their credit cards cool off â even on seasonal essentials like ice coolers. Retailers must offer payment choices to drive sales, although offering too many options can quickly turn customers frosty. In the latest Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker, Brian Garofalow, vice president of eCommerce for cooler retailer Igloo, discusses how providing flexible payment options adds value, but why retailers need to be strategic about the payment methods they accept. |
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