| Alipay: Building Bridges For Chinese Consumers To US Merchants With more than 3M Chinese consumers coming to the U.S. to spend over $330B a year (and growing), itâs in everyoneâs interest to make commerce an easy experience for them, Alipayâs president of the Americas, Souheil Badran tells Karen Webster. And thatâs just what Alipay is doing for the 600M Alipay users who might be among them, with this weekâs two big announcements re: First Data and Freedom Pay. |
| Semafone: How To Build A Voice Skill For Alexa How do you build a great voice skill for Amazonâs Alexa? Very skillfully, says Ben Rafferty, global solutions at Semafone. As Semafone and others hone their entries for the PYMNTS 2018 Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa, Rafferty says that testing is key, as is walking the fine line between helpful and intrusive. |
| ECI CEO: Building A More Ethical Workplace Culture After 18 months of depressing headlines on this subject, it would be easy to give up on workplace ethics. But Pat Harned, Ethics and Compliance Initiative CEO, thinks there is room for some (qualified) optimism. And a lot of work left to do. She lays it out, by the numbers, in this weekâs Data Drivers. |
| | Credit Union Tracker™ | | NEW REPORT: Visa: Helping CUs Win The War For Millennial Talent Millennials are a tough generation to recruit. Nearly two-thirds are open to new career opportunities, while one in five has changed jobs in the past year. Millennials want jobs that are mission-driven, says Doug Leighton, head of U.S. community accounts at Visa. That, he believes, puts credit unions at a recruitment advantage. In the latest Credit Union Trackerâ¢, Leighton tells PYMNTS how the companyâs research initiative is helping CUs to win the war for millennial talent. |
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