| Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance There is no shortage of ideas for how physical retailers can benefit from upping their digitization efforts. The challenge for merchants going forward, Michelle Carter, senior vice president global retail sales, data and services at Mastercard, tells Karen Webster, is deciding which big, out-of-the-box ideas to pursue â when and how. And that, she says, requires an open mind about new ideas, a lot of data and a willingness to road-test new ideas to perfect them. Hereâs how to strike the right balance. |
| Consumer-Centric Authentication Playbook⢠|
| The Bank App Feature 54.1 Percent Of Consumers Agree They Want More than 54 percent of consumers want control over their banking appsâ authentication requirements, but they do so for varying reasons. In the Consumer-Centric Authentication Playbook: Taking (Authentication) Control edition, PYMNTS surveyed 2,835 banking customers to explore what having authentication control means for consumers across all demographics â and how having access would change their app usage. |
| Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale â Not Retail â Payments Down Under Australiaâs central bank is the latest to examine the use of digital currency, but for wholesale, not retail, payments. Yet, recent writings from the Reserve Bank of Australia show caution seems to rule the day when it comes to mulling the use cases for central bank digital coins. Hereâs our dive, down under. |
| How UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators The U.S. isn’t the only place where restaurants struggle with the do-they-or-don’t-they sign on to delivery aggregator propositions to expand their customer base. Dan Rodgers, President and Founder of QikServe, tells PYMNTS that independent restaurants in the U.K. feel that same pain, and are exploring a range of new options to bring their customers back into their own digital ecosystems. |
| | Disbursements Tracker™ | | How Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its One Million Contributors Photographers and other creative professionals find aggregators to be extremely efficient at distributing their work, but extremely inefficient when it comes to paying them royalties when their works are used. In the latest Disbursements Tracker, Paul Brennan, vice president of content operations for Shutterstock, discusses how the company is enabling faster disbursements for its 1 million contributors to drive retention and keep buyers coming back. |
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