platform economy

Friction Fighters: How to Monetize Friction and Ignite Platforms in the Digital Economy
Friction Fighters: How to Monetize Friction and Ignite Platforms in the Digital Economy
February 12, 2024  |  Opinion

Decisions, Decisions It is said that the average person makes 35,000 decisions a day. Some, like whether to have oatmeal or eggs for breakfast, don’t...

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Platform Economics: How Instacart Leverages Time Into Profits
Platform Economics: How Instacart Leverages Time Into Profits
November 16, 2023  |  David S. Evans

Time is our most precious asset. Each day, we get just so much. Twenty-four hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. If we don’t use it, we...

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UK Financial Regulator Grants Mangopay E-Money Banking License
UK Financial Regulator Grants Mangopay E-Money Banking License
November 01, 2023  |  Commercial Payments

Luxembourg-based FinTech Mangopay has been granted an electronic money institution (EMI) license by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the company announced in a Wednesday (Nov....

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Payments And Platforms Play Well Together
Payments And Platforms Play Well Together
July 29, 2020  |  Payments Powering the Platform Economy

As virtual marketplaces displace (and replace) the physical variety at a dizzying pace, payments speed and security are paramount concerns. When transactions and payments occur...

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Platforms And AI Are Powering Real Estate Investing’s Digital 3.0 Shift
Platforms And AI Are Powering Real Estate Investing’s Digital 3.0 Shift
June 25, 2020  |  Real Estate

Stock markets are whipsawing. Bond yields, gyrating. Crypto? Bouncing around, to put it mildly. The pandemic has sent any number of investments tumbling, soaring, then...

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Payment Orchestration Platforms Conduct Business
Payment Orchestration Platforms Conduct Business
May 04, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

Payment orchestration platforms (POPs) are suddenly everywhere as solution-shopping for the great American reopening gets underway in earnest. The inaugural edition of the Payments Powering...

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Platforms Dance To The Gen Z Tune
Platforms Dance To The Gen Z Tune
February 04, 2020  |  Platform Payments

By the end of 2020 four in 10 shoppers worldwide will belong to Gen Z, the consumer group born more or less between 1996 and...

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Care.com Deal Offers A Premium, But (Trust) Issues May Linger
Care.com Deal Offers A Premium, But (Trust) Issues May Linger
December 23, 2019  |  Gig Economy

This is a platform that will take some, well, care. As reported Friday, Dec. 20, IAC, which operates several media brands, announced a pact to...

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