PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

population, which undermined central goals of the funding: to provide immediate financial relief to businesses and consumers and to stimulate a flatlining economy. Some are embracing self-service online tools such as websites that allow employees to access information about their pay, vacation time, benefits and other topics.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The crux of the Payments and The Platform Economy Playbook is that with 162 million workers in the U.S. and Europe currently involved with the gig economy, projected to be serving 86.5 million consumers by 2021, sharing economy platforms can’t just meet customers’ needs – they also have to anticipate them.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Today’s “gig economy” is a big enough force in business that a quick Googling of the term will pull up an impressive 14.9 One of those pages is our quarterly Gig Economy Index , which takes the quarterly pulse of the gig worker. Gig workers , on the other hand, seem to like working gigs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014. The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

As more people flock to the gig economy, there are increasing challenges around developing and supporting benefits and/or benefits programs for these workers. The gig economy doesn’t have an infrastructure in place that supports these types of benefits, which begs the question: Whose job is it to make this a reality?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Here’s a topic for debate. The topic was addressed in a PYMNTS interview with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of FinTech at Visa and Venkatesh Saha , head of expansion (Middle East & APAC) at TransferWise. That can help gig economy workers and freelancers get paid more quickly, in their currencies of choice.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

And although banks follow fair lending laws and don’t offer special treatment for younger borrowers, flexibility can be beneficial for millennial and Gen Z customers who have embraced the “gig economy” of non-W-2 income. “If Budgeting is especially important for first-time homebuyers, notes Burmis.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The digital economy is here and, for many consumers, it has become a way of life. In a recent webinar, Karen Webster dug into this topic with Fiserv ’s Tammi Shapiro, vice president of electronic payments product strategy and management, and Paul Diegelman, vice president of electronic payments partnerships and business development.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This is not a new topic of conversation. Kids of parents born in the 1940s had it the best, not surprisingly, given the intersection of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the rapid expansion of the economy that followed — driven by the wholesale shift from a farm-based to a manufacturing-based economy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

No question about it, Uber is emblematic with the ability to use technology to turbocharge the matchmaker economy. As Uber expanded its platform with new services, such as UberEATS , Uber drivers were presented with more opportunities to make money by delivering food to consumers in between gigs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Today, we thought we’d set the table for 2017 by reprising seven of the, ahem, more controversial topics of conversation. A large portion of them work as part of the gig economy , and many rather like it that way.

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