What is the tipping point for mobile payments? It’s not just infrastructure, as our latest Data Drivers details. According to Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Mobile, the lure of making everyday tasks simpler is what turns dabblers into devotees in developed and developing nations.
Hold the phone. Hold on. Recognize that phone number? It’s yours. But it’s not you. And someone’s using that number to do some bad stuff. Welcome to the world of call center fraud, where numbers gain data and data gains dollars and other ill-gotten gains...
Can bricks-and-mortar survive the eCommerce onslaught? In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Dave Barrowman, who serves as Vice President of Innovation at Skava, said that in the physical retail space, the death of physical retail remains greatly exaggerated. With some ingenuity and attention to...
Bitcoin — and the technology that enables it — has certainly had a rather fast trip from obscurity to mainstream awareness. In January 2009, the so-called “Genesis Block” came into existence to the delight of an extremely small but very passionate cadre of cyber currency enthusiasts. In...
Our latest Data Drivers finds Karen Webster chewing the fat with Suneera Madhani, CEO and founder of Fattmerchant. The skinny? How to slim down those processing fees and monthly statements.
At least two-thirds of consumers who go online apply for a loan. In our latest Data Drivers, Joe DeCosmo, chief analytics officer at Enova, and Kevin King, director of product marketing at ID Analytics, tell Karen Webster how the use of fraud data can reduce...
25 billion and $43 trillion. That’s the annual volume of transactions logged as part of NACHA’s faster payments scheme and the value in trillions of dollars. And that was just the first of about 15 key data points about the U.S.-only ubiquitous faster payments scheme...
When the U.K. implemented Faster Payments, fraud tripled as fraudsters exploited the vulnerabilities of a new system that moved money in an instant. In the latest Data Drivers, BioCatch’s head of Cyber Strategy tells Karen Webster how new tools and technologies can slow fraud to...
Our latest Data Drivers delves into a dichotomy: SMB owners look with optimism toward future growth but look askance at their prospects for grabbing the funds needed, via credit, to fuel that growth. Fundbox CEO Eyal Shinar told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that the odds are...
