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How The B2B Mid-Market Drives Loyalty Through Online Payments

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While the coronavirus crisis certainly accelerated the drive toward digital, the mid-market's commerce digitization push was well underway before the pandemic hit. Corporate buyers are quickly shifting their purchasing habits online, and seeking more efficient experiences from product sourcing through to checkout.

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Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations

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Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. Telecommuting, online education and moving to a cashless and virtual financial system will likely become the norm,” he told PYMNTS. This most recent black swan is proving that online financial services are a lifeline service.”. Let me share an actual example.

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eBay: Offline Payment Preferences Are Changing Online Habits

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The pandemic is proving to be a tough loyalty test for retailers, as they are competing for customers’ attention in an environment where competition is still present in both online and in stores. They are beginning to value placing more emphasis on being able to pay however they like, for example. One recent study found that 51.7

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FinTech Innovation Eases B2C Sellers’ Entrance Into The B2B World

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It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. For example, Disque pointed to capabilities for FinTech to automatically enforce payment terms and route transactions via the appropriate payment method without manual intervention from the seller.

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How Subscriptions Bridge The Online/Offline Learning Divide

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Certain segments of the market have surged, with millions of new subscribers for movie and TV streaming platforms, meal kits and other product boxes. The survey cited above also found that 17 percent of consumers had canceled streaming subscriptions during the pandemic, for example.

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The Innovative ‘Green Shoots’ Growing Out Of COVID-19’s Scorched Earth

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The uncertainty injected into the market, as Ning Wang, co-founder and chief business officer at PingPong , told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, is having undeniable effects worldwide – which are not likely to wear off anytime soon. An Opportunity for Innovation .

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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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’.