Why Less Can Be More In Winning The Global Payments Game Going global isnât easy, but according to Albert Drouart, director, international at Braintree, itâs easier than many merchants think. Drouart said by thinking that they need to be all things to all people â all at once â merchants can over-complicate the problem. That includes thinking they must accept more payments options than are needed to attract a cross-border buyer. In fact, he tells Karen Webster, itâs the worst performing merchants that accept the most payments methods. He explains why. |
When Gated Payments Open Loyaltyâs Gates Merchants want loyalty â and consumers want something in return. In an age where choice abounds and fickleness does too, how to create the bond that weds convenience with a feeling of exclusivity for consumers with return on investment for loyalty programs? Gated payments may hold the answer, as Zipline CMO Kristen Bailey tells PYMNTS. |
Why Innovationâs Fast Pace Shouldnât Slow Down FI Payments Payments innovation has reached a frenzy, and itâs something that has many bankers more stressed than smiling â but not Brian Dorchester, EVP of operations at First American Payment Systems and this weekâs commander in chief. Dorchester tells PYMNTS why the speed of innovation is the best thing thatâs happened to payments in decades. |
| X-Border Receivables Report™ | NEW REPORT: Volvo Gives X-Border Car Leasing A Tune-Up One million international students come to the U.S. to study each year, and those who want to buy a car get a lesson in cross-border payments friction. Payments are often made with cash and, upon graduation, their parents must sell the vehicle from halfway across the world. In the March X-Border Receivables Report, Volvo's VP of sales, Rick Bryant, tells PYMNTS how the automaker has solved this problem by giving its car leasing program a cross-border tune-up. | |