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MasterCard Keeps Its Promise To Developers
July 23, 2015

MasterCard put its heart on its sleeve (or online) last week when it made a formal declaration expressing its commitment to developers. Why now, and what have the results been? Sebastien Taveau, Chief Developer Evangelist, Open API Initiative at MasterCard, shares all with MPD CEO...

B2B Payments
Making Credit Scoring “Plug & Play”
July 22, 2015

Lenders must adopt new credit score models in order to reach the true credit eligible universe, says model developer VantageScore Solutions. One way for lenders to bring new data and scoring methods alongside their in-house models is to adopt a “Plug & Play” approach. But...

Are Retailers Ready For The $1.8T Omnicommerce Opportunity?
July 22, 2015

Consumers will spend $1.8T shopping on their phones in the next two years? The quarterly Vantiv OmniReadi Index debuts today with an in-depth, quantitative assessment that suggests that most merchants don’t seem all that ready to cash in. With an average score of 64 out...

Omnicommerce: Driving Adoption Through Incentives
July 21, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image image=”153864″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”MOBILE COMMERCE BY THE NUMBERS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Oswald%3A300%2Cregular%2C700″][vc_separator color=”grey” align=”align_center” style=”” border_width=”” el_width=””][vc_single_image image=”153866″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css_animation=””] Source: Mobile Ecosystem Forum: Global Mobile Money Report, 2015 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=””]...

Will Motion Code Slow Online Fraud’s Momentum?
July 17, 2015

The EMV shift will move a lot of offline fraud online — this we know. What we don’t know, exactly, is how to address it. Martin Ferenczi, President of Oberthur Technologies (OT) North America, shares a pretty nifty solution – Motion Code. To enable it,...

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Making Sense of Data’s Deluge
July 15, 2015

Making sense of the ton of data out there is both an art and a science. Payments execs need the right analytics tools (science) to confidently interpret multiple data streams to pinpoint key consumer behaviors (art). MPD’s CEO Karen Webster sat down with Fred Grigsby...

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MasterCard’s Report On Consumers And Data Security
July 09, 2015

  What worries consumers more – having their house robbed or having their financial information compromised? The answer to that, along with fresh new insights about how consumers feel about money and the security of their payments and financial assets was the topic of conversation...

Digital Identity In the Physical World
July 09, 2015

  [vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Is your digital identity really you? As Philip Andreae, Vice President, Field Marketing North America at Oberthur Technologies, discussed with MPD CEO Karen Webster on a recent podcast, it is you — but only from the perspective of the merchant...

Tokenization Goes Private
July 06, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]MasterCard’s news earlier this month that it will be the first network to add tokenization support for private label (store-branded) credit cards was nothing if not big. Among the first retailers to participate will be BJ’s Wholesale Club,...