| When Using Phones At The Dinner Table Gets A (Master)Pass Itâs always bad manners to check your phone in a restaurant, unless youâre checking it in order to pay the check. Bruno Degiovanni, VP digital payments Western Europe at Mastercard, told PYMNTS that a new partnership with Eataly â and other dining establishments in Italy â are turning what was once a dining out faux paus into a better customer and restaurant experience. |
| EDITED CEO: Why Every Retailer Needs To Act Like A Software Company Fleet of foot and fickle of mind, consumers are flocking to retailers â online, and to buy direct. In the latest Data Drivers, EDITED CEO, Geoff Watts, tells Karen Webster retailers must learn to act like software companies â and brands must become retailers â as data-driven direct consumer interaction emerges as a macro trend. Three data points tell the story. |
| Moving Mortgages Into The Mobile Era Conventional wisdom says that millennials were never going to be looking for mortgages en masse. Conventional wisdom seems to have been wrong, says Caliber Home Loans EVP of technology Caroline Watteeuw. She and her team have rolled out a mobile mortgage product that she says gives this mobile-centric generation what they need: the right blend of high tech and high touch. |
| | Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™ | | Live-ex: How Integrated Payments Power Wine Trading Platforms The wine industry is huge â valued at $220 billion in the United States alone. But for years, a lack of efficient payments and independent data made wine buying for vintners a challenge to say the least, says Anthony Maxwell, director of wine exchange Liv-ex. In the latest Payments Powering Platforms Tracker, Maxwell tells PYMNTS how the company is working to bring a protected, transparent, payments-ready platform to wine traders, and why integrated payments could be the answer to the industryâs payments bottleneck. |
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