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August 19, 2019

The Monday Conversation

LendingClub CEO Talks Interest Rates, Credit … And Their Bank Charter Quest

Interest rates are volatile, fears of a recession are spiking, central banks are cutting rates. In an interview with Karen Webster, LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn lays out how the firm has positioned itself over the last three years to grapple with a range of macro-driven challenges — and where a bank charter fits into its longer-term plans.

 

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SMB Payments

Can Email Change The Payments Game For SMBs?

There’s only one thing more pervasive than paper checks — and that’s email. In a new PYMNTS interview, Bento for Business Founder and CEO Farhan Ahmad explains how SMBs are using email to send payments and onboard suppliers — bringing digital efficiencies to payments between trading partners.

 

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Mobile Commerce

Why It’s Time To Break Mobile Commerce Stereotypes

Mobile commerce isn’t just for millennials. Sri Narasimhan, head of strategy, partnerships and business development at LISNR, digs into new research on consumers and their mobile commerce habits and explains why merchants must look beyond the mobile commerce stereotypes for growth and expansion.

 

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IPO Anniversary

Happy 15th IPO Anniversary Google!

Fifteen years ago today, Google went public. With a market cap north of $800B, it’s come a long way from the company that Yahoo said wasn’t worth more than $3B in 2002 and the stock The New York Times reported only suckers would buy the day it IPO’d. Here’s a look back at the 15 years that GOOG (now part of Alphabet) has been a publicly traded company.

 

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Subscription Commerce Conversion Index™

How Merchants Can Reverse The Subscription Churn Curse

Subscription commerce is flourishing yet merchants still find themselves in a world of customer churn. For the latest Subscription Commerce Conversion Index, PYMNTS analyzed more than 160 businesses and 2,100 consumers and found five things that drive subscription abandonment for 75 percent of subscription commerce merchants. Here’s what they are and how merchants can reverse the subscription churn curse.

 

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