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Main Street?s Digital Shift, ATM Innovation, PPP Loans Top This Week?s News

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We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift. It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech.

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How Much Can Technology Improve Healthcare Payments?

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Touted by observers and industry players as one of the top trends that could impact medical billing and data management for 2018, the technology is increasingly being viewed as part of the path to better efficiency in payments. No matter the technology, companies hoping to make profits in healthcare payments have a tough road.

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The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate

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Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Do FIs want to navigate card programs through that?”. Near-Term Challenges.

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Why Installment Payments Are Fashionable This Holiday Season

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Consumers — especially millennials and Generation Z — are looking for new commerce experiences during the 2019 holiday season. However, they are also hesitant to pay for those new experiences with credit cards or other traditional financing options. How Bridge Millennials Are Driving More Demand For Flexible Payments.

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Mastercard Buys POS Financing Provider Vyze

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Mastercard has moved into point-of-sale financing with the acquisition of Vyze, a FinTech firm the payment card network calls an “an end-to-end platform that facilitates financing options for merchants’ customers at checkout.”. As well, Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards.

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Today In Payments: Savings Rate Surges To Highest Level In 39 Years; Big Lenders Process Half-Million Loan Applications

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NEW DATA: Two-Thirds Of Main Street SMBs Are Not Ready For The Post-Pandemic Restart. Yet less than a third of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are adapting their operations to meet consumers’ post-pandemic expectations. Tradesy CEO: Millennial Women, Louboutin Shoes And Restarting The Economy.

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PSCU CEO: Debit Still Wins With The Resilient Consumer

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The overall cautiousness and sense of financial prudence, he said, can be seen in the fact that consumers are embracing debit transactions over credit, using cash on hand rather than choosing to build their liabilities on a credit card. That's what the millennial and younger consumer prefer to use.”.

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