Dispatch Issue: 1/20/2021

Here is your link to the archived edition of MAC Dispatch for the week of Jan 20, 2021.

https://multibriefs.com/briefs/mac/MAC012021.php

Articles in this week's issue:

MAC UPDATES

• Keynote Speaker Announcement at Tech Day(s)!
• Level Up 21 moves virtual

 INDUSTRY NEWS

• 2021 predictions for the payments industry
• 82 percent of small business owners ready for digital payments
• AI rides to rescue of analog accounting processes
• Incremental steady change won't cut it for payment companies
• Payment technology to propel post-COVID travel rebound in 2021
• Payments in 2021: What lies ahead after the digital boom
• Virtualized B2B payments: Poised to kill the paper check — and the plastic card
• Federal agencies, states compete to be fintech regulator
• QR code: It's cool again
• The owner of TikTok launches its electronic payment service
• X1 raises $12 million for smart credit card
• 'Cash crash': 1 in 3 people blocked from paying with notes and coins during pandemic
• IRS warns South Carolinians of potential COVID-19 relief payment scams