These are possibly the last moments before AI starts to have a massive impact on daily consumer life. However, the challenge of bias in AI remains a big potential problem and must be overcome for it to win needed trust. Mastercard SVP and Head of Brighterion Sudhir Jha sat down with me to discuss overcoming the challenges for AI - and how to ensure it takes its proper role in the payments ecosystem. Full video discussion: https://bit.ly/2PXubba …see more

Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek talks to me about how they expanded their real-time global payments capabilities to include real-time account-to-account transfers to an account or a mobile wallet for select banks or digital wallet providers in 17 countries. …see more

#BlackFriday is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season and this year 151 million consumers got their Black Friday shopping groove on. This year, that groove was more online than at a physical store, but with all income groups spending at least 25% more this year than last. Millennials were the biggest spenders. That’s according to our hot-off-the-presses study of more than 2,000 U.S. consumers to find out what they bought, where they shopped and how they paid. Here’s what we learned. Full Study: https://bit.ly/2LbNknZ Tags: #blackfridayshopping #blackfridaystudy #onlineshopping #ecommerce #consumerstudy #millennial #holidayshopping #spending …see more

Facebook announced its plans last week to create a global #payments system based on #cryptocurrency and #blockchain rails. Like #Facebook Credits that launched a decade ago this month, is pretty much DOA. I sketched out a fictional, three-act play speculating the details, and thoughts as to why. Ready for the curtain to rise? …see more

In 2012, Grab 's founder tapped into a transportation friction that became the foundation for the 10-country, 650-million consumer, mobile financial services ecosystem that operates today. Fresh off its latest $4.5 billion capital raise, Grab’s Senior Managing Director Reuben Lai takes me inside the Grab ecosystem to explain that journey, why it has its eye on launching global remittances and the complexities of scaling a platform across such a diverse cultural, social, economic and regulatory landscape. Full Article: https://bit.ly/2UvsVgD Tags: #grab #rideshare #ridehailing #mobile #finance #technology #fintech #digitalpayments #marketplace #platform …see more

Seamless #commerce has been buzzing around #retail all year - but, as WePay Co-Founder Richard Aberman tells me, most of the ecosystem is still thinking narrowly when throwing the phrase around. Checkout itself is crucial, and shouldn't be friction-filled, he says. However, to build truly seamless commerce going forward, it’s going to require taking a much bigger picture view of the commerce journey - for both buyers and sellers. …see more

Let’s play buzzword bingo: “AI” is so abuzz right now, it’s positively ablaze. However, does its usage live up to the label that the financial services and #payments industry has given it? Not really. In the new study, The #AI Gap, PYMNTS interviews executives at 200 FIs and analyzes over 12,800 #data points. The research discovers that only 5.5 percent of #banks actually use what experts call “true AI” to reduce false-positives and fight #AML , as well as optimize credit and other payments and #banking products. Get all the details here. …see more

We asked 4,000 consumers across the U.S. who just came out of a grocery store why they went, how they picked that store, what they bought, how they paid and how their favorite grocery merchant could make shopping there better.

Venmo  made paying friends social when it launched in 2009, and today, it’s made paying merchants social, too. Pay With Venmo lets anyone with a Venmo account shop and pay at 2M U.S. merchants that accept PayPal — with a single click. I talked with PayPal  COO Bill Ready  to get an inside look at how it works, the Instant Pay feature that is rolling out too and what both mean for the future of commerce — made social. …see more

David Weiss, president of YapStone, explains why market specialization or focusing on specific verticals can be the best path to growth and scale for companies in the FinTech space

How can you create a more innovative firm in 2021? Maybe you start by allocating so many non-billable hours each month for employees to improve something about their job - a process, technology, whatever. #radicalcpa #cpas #accountants #cpalove #accountantlove #innovation …see more

A lot of times #CPAs are just one Google search ahead of our clients, and we have to figure out how to make everything work very quickly. We're doing it though. Give yourself a pat on the back today. #radicalcpa #covid19 #cpalove #accountantlove …see more

✋ if you consider yourself a creature of habit and you're a little more comfortable in a world of "knowns" rather than "unknowns." It's ok, most #CPAs are. And as we continue to step boldly into our "next normal," there are bound to be some mistakes. That's why tomorrow, Thursday June 11th, I'm talking with Heather Satterley, CPA, EA, MSI of Satterley Training & Consulting to help us AVOID those common mistakes and growing pains. Tune in at 12 noon EST on 6/11 for Let's Get Radical...LIVE!. Special thanks to ADP for making this session happen. #CPA #accountant #RadicalCPA #CPALove #AccountantLove …see more

Had fun today doing a virtual event with Dr. Toby Groves !!! Love that it was all female panels talking ML and AI and accounting data audit standards! #diversity #radicalcpa #botkeeper #cpas #accountants #audit #cpafirm #fintech #tech with Melisa Galasso …see more

Wishing all my friends an #AuditorProud Day from the other side of the office #neveranauditoralwaysintax #radicalcpa

So incredibly proud of the 20K+ Google employees that stood up and said "Enough is enough." It absolutely sickens me that byzantine "good old boys'" network styles of management still exist, where the higher you are, the more protected you are, and you can get away with everything because HR and the company will shield your actions and find a way to get rid of the so-called "troublemakers" who are actually victims of harassment, abuse and management toxicity. If you're part of the management status quo, your days are coming to an end. Learn, once and for all, that employees matter. #MeToo started it. People are rising and demanding to be treated like humans in the workplace. Clearly employees have had enough. They have the power of choice to not work for toxic, inept managers and companies that treat them like crap. And they are finding their voice and speaking out. If you're in a similar situation, speak out. Technology changed everything. The world is your audience. And we're listening. …see more

Incredibly proud of my good friend and colleague Nancy Liang for receiving this prestigious award!! No one deserves it more - her tireless passion, customer obsession and high bar for excellence help make Alexa the most awesome product of its kind. Congrats Nancy!! …see more

New Integration of CLIQ® products inside Genetec® Security Center. https://lnkd.in/eE5scT7 #AbloyForTrust #Telecom #PROTEC2CLIQ #CriticalInfrastructure #Security #AccessManagement #Utility #criticalinfrastructure #abloyfortrust #criticalinfrastructureprotection #abloy #padlock #petrochemical #utility #infrastructure #oil #cybersecurity #oilandgas #celebratesuccess #security #telecommunications #energy #transportation #gas #cloudsecurity #engineering #globalsolution #assaabloyglobalsolutions #railroad #accesscontrol #cip #utilities #windfarm #renewableenergy #sustainability #padlocks #innovation #technology …see more

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POLL: HELPING BUSINESSES SURVIVE COVID-19 As we continue to focus on strategies to help small and medium businesses through the COVID-19 global pandemic, I would like to get your views on what key strategies you believe businesses should focus on. Please take a few minutes and check out my poll. #covid19 #innovation #business Stephen De Blanche Tim Collins Hans Zachar Carmen Williams Dries Zietsman (MBA) Justine McFarlane Kriben Reddy (MBA) Nicola (Nikki) Peel Robin Wagner Sudhish Mohan Chad Reimers Lisa Thomas Jeannine Naudé Viljoen Ndivhu Nepfumbada …see more