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October 5, 2016

The Matchmaker Is In

Matchmakers’ Secret Friction Fighter
 

Friction is what matchmakers see as an opportunity for innovation. It can also sink their best laid plans. Anthony Walton, founder and CEO of Iliad Solutions, joined this week’s The Matchmaker Is In series, hosted by Karen Webster and economist and "Matchmakers" author David Evans, to talk about how matchmakers in payments use testing to increase the odds of their success.

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Client Relationships

MoneyGram CEO Talks MobilePass
 

MoneyGram’s launch yesterday of MobilePass is the latest example of its commitment to moving away from being a transaction-centric to becoming a relationship-centric platform for its global customers. MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes told Karen Webster what this means for the future of MoneyGram – and the customers it serves.
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Marketplace

Why Scaling The Gig Economy Comes Down To Payments
 

In the continuing series on traits that define a “great” on demand marketplace, Hyperwallet VP Tomas Likar, said that there’s one big reason that global marketplaces that serve the gig economy don’t scale: the inability to pay people in far flung locations. Likar offers insights on how to eliminate the manual processes and administrative headaches that can stymie real progress.

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Faster Payments Tracker™

Should Faster Payments Bet On The Blockchain?
 

Clearance granted … immediately? New developments in blockchain technology could be taking Faster Payments to another next level. In the latest Faster Payments Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Karen Hsu, head of growth at BlockCypher, about where the challenges and opportunities currently exist in the blockchain space. Find that, along with the latest headlines from around the space, in this month’s Tracker.

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