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Meeting Consumer Demand With Speed-Of-Life Payments

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The digital economy is here and, for many consumers, it has become a way of life. Direct deposits, push payments, eWallets, same-day ACH transfers, PayPal, Zelle and myriad other platforms and tools are now second nature. But, with this progress comes friction in the form of a payments patchwork. Supply and Demand.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. A Couple of Important Dots.

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Dynamics’ Next Generation Payment Cards crack a 30-year lack of card innovation by embedding a full computer architecture inside a payments card. After a month-long screening process, we narrowed the pile to the newest and most innovative ideas in fintech.

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Deep Dive: Reinventing Supply, Demand And Purchasing In The COVID-19 Era

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The COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts are already being felt across various business sectors, and efforts to reduce its spread are sending ripple effects through supply chains and shifting B2B and consumer-to-business (C2B) payment practices. Plenty of systems outside payments are also being affected, resulting in massive in-house strategy shifts.

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Sleepless In Payments

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Sleep experts contend that people just sleep less than they used to, maybe even as much as 20 percent less than even a few decades ago. That is unless you live in Melbourne, Australia, where things seem pretty chill. Those guys and gals sleep the most of anyone in the world – about six and a half hours a night – and pretty peacefully.