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Gig Economy

Truth And Myth In The Gig Economy
 

Yes, the younger generation is embracing the gig economy, but the project-based work and online marketplaces aren't just for millennials. PYMNTS’ Karen Webster sat down with Hyperwallet CEO Brent Warrington to discuss the ingredients that make up the new on-demand workplace in the United States and beyond.

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In Their Own Words Series

Divido’s Smart Path To POS Financing Growth
 

Divido entered the Point Of Sale (POS) installment lending game three years ago for a simple reason, its CEO and co-founder Christer Holloman, said — it was a space that was a few decades behind its more modern, scalable, technologically-driven solutions. Divido was built to be both — and has gotten some recent help from Mastercard’s Start Path, Mastercard’s Amy Neale shared. Hear that story, In Their Own Words.
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Regulatory Tracker

Dodd-Frank Rollback Tops Regulatory Landscape
 

Big picture (regulatory) thinking dominated news surrounding financial services and payments this past week. In the U.K., a contentious election brought “hard” and “soft” Brexit into question, while Dodd-Frank got a vote-down by the United States House of Representatives — and next stop, the Senate.

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“Siri — Will HomePod Be A Huge Hit?”
 

A week ago today, the world got its first look at Apple’s HomePod, the device that CEO Tim Cook said will “reinvent music.” Music, Cook said, is in Apple’s DNA — and the product even borrowed its last name from the revolutionary Apple device that launched in 2001, the iPod. But that, Webster said, may be the only similarity they share. She said that iPod’s brilliance was solving a huge problem for consumers and music labels — and, because it did so, it changed how music was bought and consumed. The HomePod’s four-inch woofers and seven tweeter array, she says, seems designed to solve a completely different one. Here’s why.

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