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When B2B Payments Is All Talk, No Action


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QSRs Innovate With Kiosks


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PSD2 Takes Center Stage


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Blockchain’s Fix For Healthcare Payments


Data Behind B2B Payments' API Hype


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Alexa Is The New Virtual Roommate


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X-Border: How Many Payments Methods Does A Cross-Border Merchant Need?

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Mania And Madness: A History Of Things People Liked Too Much

Cryptomania has seized the payments community and the public at large. It’s the latter population that we need to worry about, though, if previous cultural manias are any indicator. Sure, Beatlemania and the Twin Peaks fad faded out peacefully on their own, but there’s far too much money tied up in cryptos for them to meet such a gradual end (and end they will, as all manias must). When lots of people enthusiastically buy into trends that they don’t understand, it always seems to end badly. Here’s some that did.

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What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys

Getting consumers to fall in love with innovation is the day job for many a payments innovator. And, according to Karen Webster, they almost always produce innovation that asks consumers to make wholesale changes to what they do now. It’s why she argues that getting consumers to change might be more about asking them not to — and what innovations could be well-positioned to become payments innovation’s path of least resistance. Skeptical? Don’t be. Just watch the monkeys.

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