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Podcast: Data Drivers

Why Credit Unions Can’t Take Member Trust For Granted

Credit unions (CUs) have spent decades cementing loyalty among consumers — so much so that a majority wouldn’t switch for another type of financial institution. However, in the age of FinTech upstarts, CU execs should beware complacency. In the latest Data Drivers, PSCU CEO Chuck Fagan tells PYMNTS how tech-driven innovations can make or break the ties that bind.

Travel Payments

Digital Lending’s $1.4T Travel Payments Plan

Uplift raises $123 million to scale the B2B digital lending platform that’s upped leisure travel package conversions for United, Southwest and American. Uplift President Rob Soderbery tells Karen Webster about the 1.4 trillion reasons why leisure travel’s one of the safest bets in payments — yet remains largely overlooked by payments innovators.

Online Betting

Why Super Bowl LIII Puts Online Betting’s Future Front And Center

The DOJ recently threw a curve ball into the state’s plans for online betting — at just about the same time the biggest betting day of the year approaches: the Super Bowl. Karen Webster talks to Trulioo GM Zac Cohen about how companies that want to play in that space can take steps to make sure those wagers are not pushed back into the black market.

The Grocery Industry’s Self-Driving Future

Consumers increasingly use connected devices to order groceries online, yet still drive to the store to pick them up. Pradeep Elankumaran, co-founder and CEO of digital grocery startup Farmstead, tells PYMNTS that autonomous cars will change that — and, in the process, completely upend the $800 billion grocery sector. That story and more in the latest PYMNTS IoT Tracker.

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