October 18, 2022
JPMorgan Backs Tilia to Advance Payments for Virtual Economies
Comprehensive payments platform Tilia was backed by J.P. Morgan for an unspecified amount to further develop its payment processing solutions for in-game transactions and virtual economies. Tilia converts in-world tokens...
October 18, 2022
Move Over, Millennials — Gen Z to Start Calling the...
When we see what’s transpired in the past three years, the utility of long-term outlooks becomes clear as the businesses that paid attention to trendlines in 2020 in many cases...
October 14, 2022
How 28 Payments Experts Weathered Q3’s Business Headwinds
Waiting for the other shoe to drop — inflation or recession? — turned into the underlying theme of a third quarter as major retailers like Amazon double-dipped on annual...
October 05, 2022
Do US Consumers Want a Super App?
Even before super apps made a major splash in the U.S., these monolithic, multi-faceted digital platforms were already staging a comeback of sorts. Their re-emergence comes in the wake of...
October 03, 2022
What 2014 Teaches Us About the Future of Payments and...
In 1963, Nobel-prize winning physicist Dennis Gabor wrote that the future can’t be predicted, but it can be invented. Gabor, who won the Nobel for inventing the hologram, explained in...
September 30, 2022
Grocers Dip Toes Into Metaverse as Restaurants Dive In
As restaurants and grocers compete for consumers’ food spending, restaurants have been quicker to go where younger consumers have been going — the metaverse. Yet, Walmart, the world’s largest grocery...
September 28, 2022
Amazon Beefs Up Tech Stable and Digital Ecosystem Ahead of...
In a flurry of announcements ahead of its upcoming Prime Early Access Sale, eCommerce giant Amazon made clear that its second sales event of the year will be as much...
September 23, 2022
Checkout Data Helps Icons (and Upstarts) Flex Brand Muscle
Ideas around using data insights to pinpoint what value and experience really mean to consumers as huge economic trends overlap are the obsession of brands, merchants and payments firms as...
September 07, 2022
California’s Unfair Competition Law: An Existing and Flexible Response to...
Competition and monopoly power in technology platforms have become global issues in the past decade. In many cases, challenges to those platforms have struggled to adapt the antitrust laws to new technological and...
