“Contagious products and ideas are like forest fires. They can’t happen without hundreds, if not thousands of regular Joes and Janes passing the product or message along.” That’s just one key takeaway from Jonah Berger’s 2013 New York Times bestseller “Contagious: Why Things Catch On.”...
Litle & Co., a subsidiary of payment processing services provider Vantiv, has announced the launch of a new solution called Recurring Engine, according to a November 6 press release. Recurring Engine allows card-not-present (CNP) merchants to simplify the steps needed to process subscriptions and recurring...
To commemorate the one-year anniversary of our MPOS Tracker, a monthly report designed to organize the mPOS ecosystem and sponsored by ROAM, we’ve released a new infographic that illustrates how the mPOS sector has exploded from its inception in 2012 to today. In just over...
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There’s an ongoing debate raging in the point-of-sale (POS) sector, in conference halls and boardrooms, and it’s fault line lies on the rapid technological developments that have upended the sector in recent years. Both sides agree advances in the cloud and software will impact the...
Discover and the National Payments Council of India (NPCI) have announced an agreement that will enable India’s RuPay debit card to make international payments by July 2013. RuPay global cards will be issued and accepted on Discover, Diners Club International and PULSE networks for transactions...
It’s hard not to feel optimistic about mobile payments adoption, especially in the face of mobile’s sheer momentum: just last week, new data from comScore found that mobile commerce is growing at a rate of 30 percent year-over-year, and that multi-platform users now account for...
Monitise announced on Friday its appointment of Visa Europe representative Steve Chambers, who will join the Group’s Board and serve as a Non-Executive Director, according to a company press release. Chambers has an extensive background in the payments sector, and was formerly chief information officer...
In a deal worth about £11.25 million in shares, UK-based mobile money firm Monitise has decided to buy partner First Eastern from their Asia Pacific joint venture, according to a company press release. Approximately three years ago, Monitise united with First Eastern “in a bid...
