Beyond The Buzzword

Payments Canada says cash will never die, despite the move to cashless, but explains how financial data that travels with payments can speed the digital trend.

Buttons, buttons everywhere. But confusion needn’t reign in eCommerce, says Rambus' CTO, Chakib Bouda. In the latest Beyond the Buzzword, he delves into Secure Remote Commerce, illustrates how interoperability and integration will let consumers pay in just about any manner in which they choose -- and predicts tokenization will be mandated.

In this episode of Beyond the Buzzword, GEOBRIDGE CTO Jason Way discusses the gaps in tokenization and the standards needed for increased data security in payments.

PEX CEO and Founder Toffer Grant discusses spend management and its significant shift, opening up new revenue opportunities for businesses.

Hedging doesn't have to be risky. Cambridge Global COO Mark Frey discusses how hedging for firms operating across borders can be a useful and profitable tool.

Sandboxing is how innovators test and learn before putting products in the public’s hands. The main way to do it wrong, according to Renovite? Not doing it.

Deirdre Ives, managing director for Wirecard, North America, tells Karen Webster that the gig economy has come a long way from even a decade ago, where, amid the financial crisis, people freelanced because their full-time jobs disappeared.

KYC for the digital age is no easy task across billions of consumers. In this episode of Beyond the Buzzword, Trulioo CEO Stephen Ufford states that mobile networks can help build a level of trust that hearkens back to the days when commerce was done face to face.

Attempting to cleave hype from hope and reality from the headlines surrounding the promise of distributed ledger technology, Karen Webster speaks with Michael Ting, SVP of Digital Markets at Hyperwallet. The first step: defining blockchain.

Andrew Wind, principal product manager at Worldpay, says that beyond implementation, there’s confusion as to whether contactless payments are considered a part of “card-present” or “card-not-present” transactions.

A platform by any other name may not, in fact, wield the same amount of strength. This was the topic of discussion in this episode of Beyond the Buzzword, as WePay Co-Founder Rich Aberman and Karen Webster talked about what it means to be a platform — and where the term is most relevant. https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2018/wepay-merchant-platforms-saas/

There are two ways merchants can ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s (PCI SSC) Data Security Standards (DSS): Smaller merchants may be able to use self-questionnaires, while larger merchants may require a data security firm to provide an on-site assessment. In this episode of Beyond The Buzzword, IntraNext CEO, Patrick Brown tells Karen Webster that the commonly held belief that PCI SSC both sets and enforces the standards is simply not the case.

Drew Edwards, Ingo Money CEO, helped clarify the nomenclature and delved into push payments, a form of instant payments. https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2018/ingo-money-push-payments-vocabulary/

What is loyalty, anyway? To get to the basics behind the buzzword, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster posed that very question to Ravi Venkatesan, CTO of Bridge2 Solutions. https://www.pymnts.com/news/loyalty-and-rewards-news/2018/loyalty-rewards-bridge2-solutions/