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The Buyers: Teen Retail Engagement
Retail // August 17, 2017

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. With each passing decade, the buying patterns of teens undoubtedly and unequivocally see a shift alongside the advances in technology. While one day a...

Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?
Faster Payments // May 04, 2017

While P2P transactions are gaining popularity, can they address the age-old discomfort of splitting bills among friends? For the latest issue of the Faster Payments Tracker™, PYMNTS caught up with Venmo’s COO Mike Vaughan about some of the “awkwardness of money” that P2P can create,...

NEW REPORT: What Faster Payments Means To Venmo — And The P2P Use Case
Faster Payments // May 03, 2017

While there are plenty of tools that make it easier to get money deposited into a bank or debit card account, there aren’t many that make it easier to ask your friends or co-workers to cough up the cash when you pick up the tab...

Interviews & Exclusives
Vouchr Founder On Using P2P To Reinvent The Gift Of Cash

October 25, 2017
Differentiating a banking and mobile payments platform from its competitors can seem like an impossible task. When two services provide only basic functionality it’s easy to see why consumers and even business clients might see both as interchangeable – but there’s a new frontier in money transfer, and taming it means finding new ways to […]

NEW REPORT: What Faster Payments Means To Venmo — And The P2P Use Case

May 03, 2017
While there are plenty of tools that make it easier to get money deposited into a bank or debit card account, there aren’t many that make it easier to ask...