FDA eCig Crackdown Boosts Appeal Of Online Authentication Federal regulators in the U.S. are making it harder for young consumers to buy eCigarettes, and that push risks driving more of the business online. The crackdown points to the importance of ID authentication around new use cases, like eCigs, that have captured the regulators' attention. PYMNTS speaks with Reinhard Hochrieser, director of product management at Jumio, about whatâs next. |
Will Faster Payments Spur Healthcare Innovation? Healthcare disbursements are complicated, layered processes, still dominated by paper checks. TransCard CEO Greg Bloh and Mastercard EVP of Digital Payments and Labs Jess Turner tell Karen Webster that giving healthcare insurers the ability to push money to consumers in real time can shorten the distance between insurer and consumer â and create powerful incentives to change consumersâ healthcare habits. |
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Wirecard On The True Path To B2B Payments Innovation In the latest addition of the PYMNTS Masterclass video series, Deirdre Ives, managing director of Wirecard North America, a payment services firm, takes viewers on a trip through the various issues involved in building a better B2B payments and commerce machine â tech innovation, FinTech partnerships and others â to help them figure out how to best make progress in this fast-moving, increasingly complex world. |
| Unattended Retail Tracker™ | How Smart Kiosks Are Solving Retailâs Last-Mile Problem Offering two-day delivery is the new standard â yet, even that isn't fast enough for consumers who want to buy products on the go. Vending machines are helping eTailers bridge this gap, says Swyft CEO Gower Smith. In this monthâs Unattended Retail Tracker, Smith tells PYMNTS how smart kiosks are helping eTailers solve their last-mile challenges while solving consumers' last-minute buying needs. | |