| Why Millennials And Gen Z Could Save 2020's Holiday Shopping Season Things are looking very uncertain as the holiday-shopping season looms, with retailers unsure what U.S. consumers will do. But panelists on the latest âOn the Agendaâ discussion believe younger consumers could save the day, although merchants will have to raise their digital game. Karen Webster discusses with Cosmetics CEO Ric Kostick, Afterpay Co-founder and CEO Nick Molnar and Apricot Lane Boutique CEO Patrick Stewart. |
| Restaurants, C-Stores Prep For A Post-Pandemic Omnichannel Future Convenience stores and restaurants have been hit hard by the pandemic, but Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins tells Karen Webster that many have been resilient, creative and resourceful in making sales. Now, theyâre taking stock of some of the digital pivots that helped them do that over the last six months â like the use of aggregators â to decide what best fits into their post-pandemic plans. |
| Podcast: Disruptive Technologies |
| Why Corporates Want, But Canât Always Get, A Single View Of Their Cash Taking a unified, holistic view of payments in and out and the impact to cash accounts is a necessity for corporates, but Harpreet Grewal, chief operating officer of Volante Technologies, tells PYMNTS that itâs a struggle to get that single view. He should know â he was one of those corporates not long ago. Hereâs what he wishes he had then to make managing cash easier and more reliable. |
| Using 5G To Build Tomorrow’s Smart Cities Today Building smart cities has long been an aspiration for many municipalities, but the pandemic is making that a necessity, Ubicquia CEO Ian Aaron tells PYMNTS. For instance, some cities that set up online schools quickly found out some students lacked high-speed Internet. Here’s how the industry plans to use 5G to change that. |
| Closing Latin America’s $350B SMB Trade-Finance Gap Latin American banks reject about half of small- and medium-sized businesses’ loan applications even though SMBs create roughly half of the region’s trade volume and most of its jobs, Jacob Shoihet, co-founder and CEO of online-financing platform Marco Financial, tells PYMNTS. Here’s how online-financing platforms can fill the void. |
| | B2B Payments Innovation Readiness | | NEW DATA: Pandemic Pushes 70 Pct Of Businesses To Automate Accounts Receivables Fifty percent of businesses say manual processes, sluggish payments and high operating costs have made managing accounts-receivable departmentsâ nerve-wracking over the last six months â pushing 70 percent of firms to make automating AR a high priority. In the B2B Payments Innovation Readiness Report, PYMNTS, in collaboration with American Express, analyzed survey responses from 460 businesses across five sectors to examine the impact of automating AR functions on days sales outstanding and cash flow. |
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