MasterCard announced that it has released its Ukash Travel Money Prepaid card designed to give UK tourists the best possible foreign exchange rate this summer, according to a company release. Launched by Ukash, a payments innovator, there are no charges for sign-up, transactions, or ATM...
Ton of apps help parents find babysitters. But one, called CluckCluck, allows parents to not only communicate with them but pay them as well. PYMNTS.com spoke recently with co-founder Heather Estenson Joyce to learn more on how this payments app can help cash-strapped parents strapped...
The global mobile POS market is still on fire, with analysts predicting double-digit growth through 2018. But what’s driving that growth also happens to be what will define who’ll win in the end. Ingenico’s Jean Marc Thienpont, EVP Mobile Payments Solutions and COO of ROAM,...
We admit it – we thought that just bringing you the monthly updates on mPOS was getting a little long of tooth. So, we decided to get a little “jiggy” with the mPOS Tracker. Starting this month, we’ll be going well beyond tracking only the...
With all of the market changes occurring today, acquirers and the independent sales agents working with them, have had to learn more sophisticated ways to manage their merchant relationships. Education has become a chief conversation-starter, driven by market moves to EMV, data encryption and other...
Don’t “over-rule” your fraud system. Don’t let the 95 percent suffer at the hands of the 5 percent who shouldn’t have to. Oh, and think you can substitute good employees for good documentation? Think again. These are but 3 of the 10 fraud solution “no-no’s”...
Ingenico announced yesterday that it has taken on a rebranding and launch of a new visual identity, according to a company release. Transitioning from a payments terminal provider to a seamless payment services provider, Ingenico will now be called “Ingenico Group” and will use the...
Mobile-money firm Montise has brought in former Visa executive Elizabeth Buse as co-CEO to run the “day-to-day” corporate operations as well as technology, product, sales and marketing. This will leave current CEO and founder Alastair Lukies to develop external relationship with partners and industry stakeholders and...
Wallets like Starbucks just can’t survive, and HCE provides issuers with the solution they need to capitalize on mobile payments. Well, that’s the view of Bill Mann, Senior Vice President of Strategy for New Business Innovation at CA Technologies. PYMNTS got the scoop on his...
