PYMNTS Podcasts

Mary Beth Joiner, senior vice president, relationship management at Comdata Corporate Payments, said that there have still been pockets of resistance in making the great B2B digital pivot. Corporate executives had been focused on price — the costs involved in shifting to digital payments — but now they are more focused on two other “Ps,” -- process and pain. Here’s how forward-looking, digitally-focused improvements can be made.

This year’s holiday shopping season will look like none ever seen before. As shoppers continue to flock to digital commerce, merchants’ CFOs and treasurers won’t only be tasked with ensuring consumers’ online payment demands are met. J.P. Morgan Merchant Services CEO Max Neukirchen tells Karen Webster how CFOs must wield the power of data to adjust their liquidity management strategies in an omnichannel sales environment.

The pandemic a mergers and acquisitions, the deal-making and IPO booms within the payments space. In an interview with Karen Webster, Jim McCarthy, president at i2c, said that a great digital shift will spur tie-ups of all sorts as incumbents seek to move quickly to modernize their tech stacks. Here’s who might be in the cross-hairs and why.

The Covid-19 pandemic advanced digital progress about ten years over the course of ten weeks, leaving community banks and credit unions playing catch up with their big bank and FinTech competitors in terms of digital offerings. The goods news, OnDot's head of product solutions Randy Piatt told PYMNTS, is they can get there with the right focus on building the right foundation.

The public sector is facing two key challenges today: under-investment in technology, and a mass exodus of talent as 40 percent of its employees get ready to retire. Luckily, digitization can tackle both of these issues. Ceridian Industry Principal, Public Sector Gianluca Cairo tells Karen Webster how payroll modernization can attract a younger generation of employees looking to make a difference with their work.

In corporate banking, the unified, holistic view — of where payments are going, what’s coming in, what it means for cash accounts — is becoming a necessity. In a podcast interview with Karen Webster, Harpreet Grewal, COO of Volante Technologies, said several friction points still exist in corporate banking, but they are issues that can be solved through the joint efforts of traditional financial institutions(FIs), FinTechs, and cloud technologies – all of them, working together, to disrupt corporate payments.

Shim Steinmetz of MerchantE discusses the cash flow challenges that many businesses are facing and what it will take for firms to live, survive and thrive.

Lukayn Hunsicker of Feedzai discusses the rise in electronic payments and the subsequent rise in fraud, as well as ways financial service providers can fight it.

Covid-19 changed a lot of things, but consumes enthusiasm for online gaming, Fiserv’s senior vice president of gaming and sports solutions George Connors told PYMNTS in a recent conversation is undimmed. But that doesn't mean that consumers expectations for their experiences haven't risen, or that online casinos don't have a lot of strategizing to do around payments and disbursements.