| Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook⢠|
| Inside TickPickâs Instant Payments Play Ticket sellers want to get paid instantly and without any surprise fees. But marketplaces that canât do that risk alienating sellers, says Brett Goldberg, CEO of TickPick. In the latest Payments and the Platform Economy Playbook, Goldberg discusses how instant payments and a simplified, transparent fee structure helps them keep â and attract â sellers. |
| Why Platforms Hold The Key To Igniting ePayables Fact: paper checks are still alive and kicking when it comes to paying suppliers, and accounts payable (AP) professionals even like sending them. Matt Clark, president and chief operating officer of Corcentric, tells PYMNTSâ Karen Webster that changing that paradigm means changing the lens through which payors view the order-to-pay process. Hereâs why a platform approach â and paying attention to suppliers â really matters. |
| LATAMâs Payments Innovation Renaissance Latin America is a complex payments market to serve because its needs are so diverse. There are advanced markets like Brazil and markets like Mexico, where nearly half of all adults are unbanked. Players that bridge the gap, Jumioâs Latin America Director Samer Atassi told PYMNTS, stand to reap big rewards as the regionâs payments rebirth evolves. |
| Libra’s Long Week In Washington The thermometer hit 100 degrees in Washington, DC last week — in and outside the Capitol — where Facebook’s David Marcus faced two days of grilling by lawmakers over Libra. Some applauded the innovation — but most said it was far, far away from prime time. Here’s what went down. |
| | Retail Innovation | | What Stranger Things Teaches Us About Attacks On Big Tech What does buying spinning shoes at 37,000 feet, Season Three of Netflix blockbuster, Stranger Things, and town hall meetings organized by small merchants in 1893 have to do with the grilling given Big Tech on Capitol Hill last week? Plenty, says Karen Webster, who says theyâre all proof points about the importance of consumer choice, and the power of the consumer, not lawmakers, to drive change when the status quo no longer meets their needs. |
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