Dispatch Issue: 3/24/2021

Here is your link to the archived edition of MAC Dispatch for the week of March 24, 2021.

https://multibriefs.com/briefs/mac/MAC032421.php

Articles in this week's issue:

MAC UPDATES

• MAC announces change in membership dues structure
• New leadership and growth opportunities are open

INDUSTRY NEWS

• Banks large and small turn to fintech friends for modernization
• Digital banking trends evolve in 2021, but customer needs stay the same
• Digital wallets are now the most popular payment method in the world
• More physician practices move to contactless payment options
• 3 classes of account fraud that can cost your company big time
• Kessler hotel chain takes high road on crypto payments
• Payment trends that are empowering consumers
• Afriex raises $1.2 million seed to scale its payments and remittances platform across Africa
• QR code payments are convenient, great for distancing, and targets for fraud
• Real-time payments: Everything you need to know
• SPAC boom or bubble? Another fintech SPAC launches amid lurking question
• The future of payments: 3 forces challenging the status quo
• The U.S. unemployment system is plagued by $63 billion in fraud and dysfunction