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February 21, 2017

Faster Payments

Faster Payments, Better Validation
 

Making sure that transactions and accounts from which funds flow are valid is a pretty important underpinning of Faster Payments. PYMNTS spoke with Jeni Brantner, VP of Payment Operations at Royal Credit Union, to get his take on the faster payments, better validation landscape just months after launch.

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PYMNTS Data Drivers

For Retailers, Building Curb(side) Appeal
 

Consumers don’t like paying more for anything, unless it’s to get what they want, when they want it. Specifically how many of them do that is just one of three key data points that Curbside CEO Jaron Waldman and Karen Webster chatted about in this week’s Data Drivers.
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Alt-Lending

War-Gaming The Future Of Small Dollar Lending
 

The future of short term, small dollar lending in the U.S. has gone from looking pretty grim to seeming extremely uncertain. So what's a short-term lending innovator to do? Come to Innovation Project 2017, of course — to hear how the CEO of one of the largest such storefronts, the EVP of one of the largest such online lenders, and a State Regulator, handicap the innovation versus regulation conundrum. Continental Investors, Paul Purcell gave Karen Webster a preview of the conversation to come – and now you too.

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Gig Economy Index™

NEW REPORT: Are Slower Payments Crippling The $1T Gig Economy?
 

Eight out 10 gig workers say, they would spend more time working in the gig economy if they were paid faster, according to the latest edition of the PYMNTS.com Gig Economy Index™. The culprit? Good old check and cash, which power payments for over 56 percent of gig workers today. All this needs to change fast else gig marketplaces risk losing talent, said Brennan Smith, senior director of talent and community at Welocalize. Plus find over 800 data points, which map out the state-of-the gig economy.

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