There are weeks of smooth sailing in the payments and commerce ocean, and then there are those weeks when the sailing is decidedly rougher. For a lot of players this week, there were far more of the latter than the former, as some big names...
One might have thought the low watermark for digital security headlines came the week before last, with the near-continuous revelations that Jack Dorsey had fallen victim to a SIM swap identity theft attack and Apple had accidentally left a large exploit in iOS for the last...
The official end of summer is now less than two weeks away, but payments and commerce got an early jump on getting back to the fall work schedule. There is lots of motion in the markets, with Apple officially moving into the world of being a card issuer (with...
As temperatures nationwide heated up, the world of payments and commerce followed suit. Between the commerce explosion that was the celebration of Prime Day and the blistering rounds of questions various Big Tech reps endured on Capitol Hill, things got and stayed unseasonably warm across...
Between the big news about Libra and the segment-wide spin-up for Prime Day in two weeks, one might have assumed we have hit something of a lull between news events, if for no other reason than to let the big payments and commerce players catch...
Facebook and Libra won the lion’s share of headlines this week, as it seems everyone who is anyone is payments and commerce was either joining up or offering their ideas on the project. But there was plenty of action below the fold this week as...
There were plenty of introductions last week. Stripe rolled out chargeback protection, Apple rolled out its take on sign-in authentication, Mastercard launched an open banking platform and Visa and Western Union paired on a global push to card payments – and those are just the top headlines. But, as often happens in...
Summer may be about to begin, but apparently someone forgot to send payments and commerce players the memo about slowing down for the vacation season. It has been a busy week, to say the least — with things everyone thought were happening off the table,...
Some changes, advances and adjustments are expected – they are clearly part of a long-term strategy playing out, or an obviously useful pivot that expands what a brand can do. And then there are changes that no one could have foreseen, because “pivot” doesn’t quite...
