| Tech Taking The Bite Out of Student Loan Debt: One Employer Benefit Plan At A Time At $1.6T, student loan debt is bigger than credit card debt and crippling kids who can take 21 years to pay it off. Itâs a problem just waiting for tech to solve, Tuition.io CEO Scott Thompson tells Karen Webster, whose tech platform is helping employers structure benefit plans that can cut the term of those loans in half. Hereâs how. |
| Why AP Management For SMBs Is More Than Making A Payment Middle market companies need help navigating the complexities of accounts payable (AP) management â especially when it comes to cross border, cross currency payments. Tipalti CEO Chen Amit tells PYMNTS why SMBs specifically need more than just a way to pay their suppliers. |
| Kids Eyeglasses Get A Mobile And 3D Makeover Kids, mobile apps and a 3D experience â no, not a game but a new way to fit kids for eyeglasses. In a new PYMNTS interview, Gabriel Schlumberger CEO of Fitz Frames, talks about how tapping into the things kids like to do, helps parents get them doing something they might not want to do â get new glasses. |
| Amazon Presses The Gas On Voice-Assisted Cars The connected vehicle ecosystem stands as a $230 billion per year retail opportunity, according to PYMNTS research. And that’s why Amazon is racing to beat other players to gain a dominant voice-assisted spot within those new cars and trucks where payments will surely be riding shotgun. We dig into what’s down the road for this emerging and massive area of commerce. |
| | Sharing Economy Platforms | | NEW DATA: Consumers Want Sharing Economy Platforms To Verify Their Identity Even with the growing threat of fraud, seven in 10 consumers are asked to provide only an email and passwords to open and then access accounts with sharing economy platforms. So how do consumers feel about platforms using security measures that hail from the age of the dial tone? PYMNTS surveyed 3,585 consumers to find out which methods they would use to access those platforms, if they were only given the choice. And why. |
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