| Visa On Scaling Cross-Border B2B Payments
Solving todayâs cross-border B2B pain points doesnât have to mean building an entirely new global payments network from scratch. Kevin Phalen, Visaâs head of global business solutions, tells Karen Webster about last weekâs successful test of Visa's B2B Connect solution. The test proves itâs possible to leverage Visaâs interconnected global network of 15,000 FIs and distributed ledger technologies to create a portfolio of innovative global B2B solutions that gives corporates and central banks what they say they most want: transparent, streamlined and secure cross-border payments at scale. Read More... |
| For FIs, Risk Becomes Reputation (And Vice Versa)
Know your customer. Know your customerâs customer. Commerce is a linked chain and for FIs, what they do not know will hurt them. In the latest Topic TBD, Jane Hennessy, G2 Web Servicesâ head of external relations, describes how reputation monitoring can make all the difference when it comes to uncovering risk.
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| The Up-And-Down Edition: Bitcoin, Chase Pay And Amazon Prices
Thanksgiving week is here â and with it the somewhat official kickoff to the ups and downs of the holiday shopping season. Bitcoin had its ups and downs last week, Chase is the latest to suffer the ups and downs of igniting mobile payments. And Amazon decided to bring the price of organic turkey and yams way down to give Prime members a pick-me-up before dinnertime. Another week. Another Data Dive. Read More... |
| | Retail Reinvention | | What Walmartâs Resurgence Means For Retail And The âPaysâ
The same media that put Walmart out to pasture a little more than a year ago is now gushing over its ability to âmake Amazon sweat.â Karen Webster said that watching the strategic volleying as these two retail behemoths jockey for retail preeminence has made for great business sport over the years. She also believes that as different as they are, Amazon and Walmart today share a strategic focus that complicates the future success of other retailers â who will need help from other âpaysâ to survive in the years ahead. Find out what that is, and then tell us who you think is best positioned to make a difference. Read More... |
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