| Ondot On The Real-Time Data Future Of Financial Services There have been many efforts to create that all-in-one financial services dashboard for consumers, but even the most successful efforts have struggled. The trouble, Vaduvur Bharghavan, president and CEO at Ondot Systems told Karen Webster, has been that while their core offerings are valuable, they make consumers work too much. He explains how he intends to leverage virtual cards and dynamic analytics to enable a new, more contextual, financial services model. |
| The Merciless Conflict Within Merchant Onboarding Payment services providers live in a merciless world. Merchant clients want a robust product offering and a simple, quick onboarding process â two desires often at odds with one another. In a new PYMNTS webinar, Karen Webster and Agreement Express CEO Mike Gardner talk about how to strike a profitable balance between those two ideals, and why just a little clarity on the part of the service provider can go a long way toward attracting retailers. |
| Gold: Sourced Digitally, Ethically And Via Blockchain Can blockchain help improve transparency of â and even the ethics surrounding â the gold supply chain? Emergent Technology Holdings helps track where the precious metal comes from and where itâs headed. According to Mitch Davis, the companyâs chief commercial officer, itâs helping boost liquidity for traders and investors, too. |
| | Bitcoin And Blockchain | | Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors Ten years after PayPal launched, it had 60M users across 190 countries. Ten years after the iPhone launched, it had sold 1.2B of them. Ten years after the first publicly circulated version of Satoshiâs paper on bitcoin, Karen Webster says its promise as the "internet of money" isnât worth the digital paper it was printed on â and why the new kingpin of hype, blockchain tech, is just as much at risk of falling to the same hype-infused fate. |
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