Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
The month of November was ushered in by the Red Sox World Series Parade of Champions in Boston (did I mention that...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
I think I mentioned in an article a while back that I have this odd fascination with old advertising- early turn-of-the-century stuff...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
Strategic planning season is in full swing in payments! And, the land grab for data and projections on everything from consumer spending...
Be truthful. How many times have you asked the following question: “How long will it take for mobile commerce to reach critical...
Economists have a famous saying .. never make a prediction that you don’t plan to outlive. Turns out it’s pretty good advice,...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
What a difference a day makes! Twenty four hours after PayPal announced its “Payment Code” update, Amazon threw down the payments gauntlet...
ISIS is working on an app for the Blackberry 10 operating system. When I saw this story on Friday the first thing...
How many people have you heard say that Apple’s best days are behind them? Well, I can tell you that it is...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
Last week was quite the exciting week in payments as several big players really put their money where their mouths were and...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had...
Once upon a time, there were four payments networks that ruled the land called Payments in the United States. They created rules...
Whoa baby, the mobile payments landscape just got a whole lot more interesting. PayPal launched something yesterday called PayPal Beacon. The media...
Coauthored by Ben Carsley, Managing Editor (@BC_PYMNTS) Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent...
Coauthored by Ben Carsley, Managing Editor (@BC_PYMNTS) Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent...
I’ll bet you didn’t know that each year for the last 10, the U.S. government has been collecting data on how Americans...
Coauthored by Ben Carsley, Managing Editor (@BC_PYMNTS) Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent...
Well, it’s that time of year ... summer is (sadly) coming to a close, the kids are headed back to school and...
Coauthored by Ben Carsley, Managing Editor (@BC_PYMNTS) Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent...
Coauthored by Ben Carsley, Managing Editor (@BC_PYMNTS) Welcome to What's Trending In Payments - a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent...
“Fee Cap” consists of two three-letter words that strike fear into the hearts of any business executive in any industry. Seeing those...
August, as it turns out, is the second most popular month for weddings, coming in a fly’s eyelid second to June. This...
Back on January 1, we brought you eight predictions for 2013 from around the payments industry, and had our own expert, MPD...
Uh oh. Shaw’s Supermarket here in Boston made a little bit of news in the run-up to the 4th of July holiday....
How’s this for a breaking development in the world of mobile payments? The Clearing House will announce today that it will launch...
As it turns out, astronauts and astro-tourists need payments love too. That’s at least the point of view of PayPal, the SETI...

Let’s start the first week of summer by turning the discussion of cash as a viable payment method on its head. Here’s...
My, how time flies when you are having fun in the digital wallet space! Since we all had such a great time...
Let’s face it, the only news that broke last week when Business Week published its story about Google Wallet was that it...
I had a chance to catch up with Mike Passilla yesterday, the newly announced CEO of Merchant Services at Chase and former...
The Fed issued its update recently on the state of the mobile U.S. landscape two years after its Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup...

Really and truly solving the B2B payments’ problem over the years has been a little bit like proving Fermat’s last theorem -...
I walked to my little local market this morning in Boston and saw the latest issue of Barron’s on the newsstand. The...
Three guesses - and the first two don’t count - on who said this about what topic and when. "I think it's in its...
Just about everyone by now knows the story of JC Penney, or JCP as the brand is now known. In forty characters,...
Seven years into the retail payments game, search giant Google has struggled to find its footing in the retail payments game. The...
Visa, Chase Deal Personifies Payments Platform Trend Social Media Sentiments: Who Really Drives (Or Deters) Mobile Payments? The Innovation Project™ 2013 was...
Payments has always been about platforms, of course, given the sector's two/multi-sided structure. But the big news that broke across the industry...
Neiman's Loyalty Lessons Facebook Gets Physical MasterCard made plenty of news on Monday at Mobile World Congress. It announced the launch of...
NFC At MIT: Which Wallets Will Win? Neiman's Loyalty Lessons The "Facebook goes offline" development of last week got me to thinking...
Payments Breakthrough, Beachheads And Sinkholes MCX and the Giant Payments Networks: A Payments Fairy Tale It was starting to get a little...
Neiman's Loyalty Lessons Bad Data Makes Bad Decisions I had the pleasure of moderating a very fun panel right before Christmas (Doesn’t...
PYMNTS Prophecies: Our Take On Eight 2013 Predictions 2012 Year In Review Happy 2013 everyone! Aren’t holidays just the best for catching...
2012 Year In Review Ready ... Set ... Wait! Will NFC continue to struggle in 2013? Will Apple fall in the battle...