Coffee Chat with Eric #4: Payments innovations making gift cards faster, cheaper, and safer

Feb. 10, 2025: In this week's Coffee Chat, I'm excited to share three organizations using innovative technologies to make payments and/or gift cards faster, cheaper, and safer for merchants:

• Flexa Network: Sponsoring/exhibiting at the Merchant Advisory Group conference this week

• Retail Alliance Foundation: A recently formed non-profit coalition that will utilize the power of the blockchain to enhance the future of gift card capabilities

• NeoCurrency: Exhibiting at Succeet GmbH. They can provide a demo of their proprietary Reward Block capabilities

A coffee chat video ‘shout out’ to the payments teams at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Regal, Ulta Beauty, and Sheetz for being first to market with implementing fraud-free digital currency and crypto payments. 📣