| Online Ordering's Return Round Trip Report |
| NEW DATA: Discounts Can Help Merchants Reduce Holiday Returns Two out of three shoppers have already returned or intend to return the purchases they made during the 2020 holiday shopping season â but offering even a 5 percent discount can help retailers convince almost 40 percent of consumers to think twice. In the Online Ordering's Return Round Trip Report, PYMNTS surveyed 2,268 consumers and found that offering discounts can help avert holiday sales returns. |
| Why Even The Haven JV Couldnât Fix Healthcare Even the combination of Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway couldnât bring a quick fix to healthcare, as the companies recently disbanded their Haven venture. But as direct-to-patient platform Sesame CEO David Goldhill told Karen Webster, breaking the negative cycle of the industryâs ever-increasing prices and rising patient out-of-pocket cost depends on transparency and simplicity. |
| Electric Vehicles Join The
On-Demand Economy Get ready for âmobility as an amenity.â A 3-year-old company called Envoy is bringing the on-demand, sharing economy to electric vehicles (EVs). Co-founder Aric Ohana told PYMNTS that his companyâs business model is based on community and reducing the cost of ownership. |
| Will SPACS Be Back (With A Bang) In 2021? SPACs were wildly popular in 2020. But will these “blank check” investment vehicles, an alternative to traditional IPOs, see continued favor in 2021? Caveat emptor, as the saying goes. PYMNTS breaks it down. |
| | Digital Transformation Of The Treasury | | J.P. Morganâs Takis Georgakopoulos Looks Toward Payments Modernization The corporate treasurerâs role was dramatically transformed amid a pandemic that fueled the need to optimize financial strategies, rethink business models and embrace digitization like never before. Along that journey, treasurers are turning to their banks for the tools and guidance to achieve their goals. Takis Georgakopoulos, global head of wholesale payments at J.P. Morgan, tells Karen Webster about the bankâs own modernization strategy to support clientsâ treasury optimization and enterprise agility for the long term. |
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