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Commercial Card Innovation Puts SMBs In The Spotlight

PYMNTS

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. US Bank Instant Card Connects With Concur Expense.

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Use This Framework for Better Bank Innovation

South State Correspondent

Every bank wants to be “innovative,” but the truth is innovation is difficult. Add to that a bank’s resource constraints, compliance demands, budget goals, legacy IT infrastructure and talent gaps, and innovation for a bank is extremely difficult. The Problem of Bank Innovation. Framing Innovation.

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Canadian prepaid market bolsters innovation rail for businesses and consumers

BankInovation

Prepaid payments are primed to be the main innovation rail for the Canadian payments market, as developments in automated banking and consumer technology make headway and market size grows. The Canadian prepaid market in 2019 had $3.74

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The State Of Main Street In 2020’s Second Half

PYMNTS

The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. That requirement of rapid change left many Main Street merchants deeply shaken and worried about their futures.

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Why JPMorgan Wants A Piece Of The SMB POS Market

PYMNTS

For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. Morgan is focused on enabling payments for the millions of small businesses that are the lifeblood of Main Streets across the U.S. – Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009).

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

PYMNTS

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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Retail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?

PYMNTS

percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty. That, in fact, is one of the main findings in the new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by FinTech firm AEVI. Things have changed, though, he said — one reason why that innovation finding carries such weight. “I