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Education
next 12 months, as security experts and business owners
deal with increased fraud and identity theft.
Check out B2B Vault
It bothers me that some of our elected officials on Capitol
Current Street Smarts author Allen Kopelman Hill are not fully versed on the many benefits of digital
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hosts the B2B Vault: the Biz to Biz Podcast with co- commerce or the highly secure mechanisms we’ve put in
host Justin Owings, who is digital marketing place to support our complex payments ecosystem. Some
director at Nationwide Payment Systems. Some proposed legislation, if not stopped, could potentially dis-
of their general areas of focus include payment mantle our safeguards and take revenues away from con-
trends, fintech insider news and updates, industry sumers and business owners alike.
solutions for high-risk payment processing and
small business payment technology. What trends are you seeing in our space and what other
Drilling down, here are the topics of several recent topics would you like to discuss? Watch this page, Linke-
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• What is the best social media platform for
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• Report on the Alternative Products Expo
• Are sales platforms a waste of time? Allen Kopelman, a serial entrepreneur, is co-founder and CEO of
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CEO of Tilled
• Alternative payments and the current state of
traditional payment methods
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Zooming out
Looking back at the past two decades in this fast-mov-
ing industry, it occurred to me that the biggest changes
have taken place behind the scenes in technologies that
run invisibly in the background. Payments are no longer
something we consumers do but a small part of bigger ex-
periences in retail, hospitality and subscription services, May 6 - 9, 2024
where commerce just happens across a variety of digital
wallets and ride-hailing, retailing and other card-on-file Miami Convention Center, Miami
applications. https://payments.nacha.org/register
Embedded payment solutions enable consumers to stay in
the nirvana of shopping without having to interrupt that
experience by waiting in line to check out in a store or hav-
ing to deal with payment pages online.
Unsurprisingly, these trends are catching on in the B2B
world in what I call the “consumerization of payments.”
Electronic invoicing, accepting digital payment methods
and offering customer portals on business websites are
just a few examples of how B2B merchants borrow from
the B2C playbook. June 10 - 12, 2024
The Roosevelt · New Orleans, Louisiana
I’ve also seen businesses ramp up security to protect infra-
structure and customer data, following recent high-profile https://www.southeastacquirers.com/
data breaches. I expect these efforts to continue over the
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