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August 2, 2018

The Financial Invisibles Series

The Financially-Strapped Consumer Next Door

While most people have a certain mental picture of a financially fragile consumer, the most at-risk consumer in today’s economy is probably better-educated and higher-earning than that stereotype. It’s a scenario that Unifund VP Steve Ashbacher says is becoming increasingly common, as more consumers stretch to “keep up with the Joneses” and end up falling further behind in their monthly expenses. Brand new data, he says, underscores that point.

 

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Bridge Millennials

How Bridge Millennials Are Reinventing The Gas Run

How does the first generation of connected consumers with spending power buy their gas? The same way anyone does — with a credit or debit card. But that’s not how they want to — and brand new data from a study of 10,000 of those consumers details what station operators must do to earn the business and loyalty of this powerful consumer bellwether.

 

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B2B Payments

Putting B2B Payments' Biggest Fallacy In Context

Speed? Not the most important thing when it comes to B2B payments. Transparency is, Barry Rhodes, EVP and head of Payments at iGTB, tells Karen Webster — and FIs would do well to give corporate clients that visibility if they hope to keep their business.

 

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Last Mile Delivery

Chairish And UPS Team To Solve Sellers’ Big Shipping Friction

The excitement over scoring that one-of-a-kind item from a home-furnishings consignment marketplace can be quickly dashed when it takes forever to receive it — and items arrive damaged, or worse. Chairish Founder and CEO Gregg Brockway told Karen Webster that a new, exclusive pair-up with UPS is aimed at solving that problem for sellers — and the buyers who await their ‘chic and unique’ finds.

 

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