To retain and fuel student enrollment for the 2020-2021 academic year, vertical payments company Flywire has unveiled a new framework. The “Planning with Confidence in the COVID-19 Era” report is based on input from institutions, global student communities and industry affiliations with insights to help...
With his experience working with companies located in hurricane zones, Joel Wilhite, CFO of AvidXchange, knows how to properly execute business continuity planning, a necessity for companies in uncertain times. The accounts payable (AP) automation technology company helps businesses harness technology to run once-manual business...
It’s easy to make things complicated. It’s harder to make them simpler, especially when it comes to payments. In a Masterclass interview with Karen Webster, Bob Butler, president at Payrix, said turning payments from a cost center into a profit center increases companies’ value to their...
To stay competitive, especially with digital startups unencumbered by legacy systems, traditional financial institutions (FIs) need to deliver seamless customer services to individual consumers and enterprise customers alike. To that end, Vincent Caldeira, chief technologist for FSI in APAC for Red Hat told PYMNTS, FIs...
From cash and coins to mobile wallets to wearables … to invisible payments. About 90 percent of purchases are still being made in-store, but the payment modalities are changing — and rapidly. To that end, said Matt Good, senior vice president and general manager of...
Amid the seismic changes that have refashioned the payments landscape over the last few years — as large players get ever larger (such as the $22 billion Fiserv-First Data deal) — there is an opportunity for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies and digital marketplaces to monetize payments....
FinTechs are helping companies understand and optimize their total cost of payments acceptance through technology. Modo Founder and CEO Bruce Parker said there are many different drivers of that cost. Big online eCommerce, gig economy or other merchants “tend to have a lot of different...
(Warning: This article contains puns aplenty, fowl indeed). Bird, the scooter company, may ruffle some feathers in the very cities and locations where it seeks to engender goodwill — more so than it already has. And, beyond that, here are some key questions: Will its...
Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with next-generation commerce firm Sightline Payments to deliver cashless, mobile and omnichannel programs to over 45 gaming resorts, state lotteries, digital gaming and sports betting sites across eight states, i2c announced on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Founded in...
