The Green Sheet

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Friday, October 4, 2024

Quick takes: Things that caught our eye this week

Highlights from this week range from a study on SMB perspectives on integrated payments and embedded finance to a new voice AI productivity tool designed to eliminate keyboards to a free guide to help online retailers prepare for the coming holidays, and changes at Amazon affecting thousands of SMBs.

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Merchant Sales Podcast
September 27th, 2024

Leveraging AI to Land More Sales and Streamline Customer Service

Discover how AI is streamlining sales, approvals and customer service in this week's interview with Dave Fiegle, president of the AI Agency. Then James describes how he uses AI in his businesses, and Patti reports on how regulators are honing their focus on BNPL.

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Online Edition – Issue 24:09:02

Instant payments: Are we there yet?

By Patti Murphy

Getting U.S. financial institutions to adopt new, faster, better ways to facilitate payments is a bit like turning around a giant ocean liner. It will get done, eventually. But it requires a lot behind the scenes work, and a lot of moving parts.

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Resource Guide

Bluu (United Merchant Services, Inc./Up Solution)

Community Voices

This week's featured contributor:

Industry Insights | BHMI

Since its founding in 1986, BHMI has become a leading and trusted provider of software solutions focused on the back-office processing of digital payment transactions. BHMI's Concourse Financial Software Suite®, a unique integrated collection of back office products, allows companies to adapt to the rapidly changing world of payments quickly and easily.

Pioneers In Payments

Pioneers In Payments is a video series produced by BHMI that seeks to provide payments professionals with valuable insights and advice via recorded interviews with payments industry experts.

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Company profile from GS240602

Drive revenue, scale operations with B2B cellular connectivity

OptConnect began life in 2000 as a Grant Victor company, providing cellular routers for ATMs. After years of selling routers as ATM accessories, the company expanded into other markets and established OptConnect LLC in 2009, a global wireless connectivity provider that offers a range of cellular connectivity options, from self-managed to fully managed solutions. Chris Baird, president and CEO of OptConnect, said the company is focused on simplifying connectivity. "One size doesn't fit all, especially when it comes to cellular connectivity," he said, adding that OptConnect provides IoT project expertise, resources and support.

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