Executive Insights

Executive Insights
Citi: Treasurers, Embracing RTP’s Bright Future — While Bracing For Dark Days Ahead
December 02, 2019

It’s said that change is the only constant in life. So it is with business, with payments, with the ways we pay — when and even where and certainly how. The ripple effects of the digital age have touched the ways firms manage cash, and...

Executive Insights
2017 In Payments: The Year Of …
December 15, 2017

A lot can happen in a year. What makes one stand out from another? How shall 2017 go down in the history books? Search Google for “2017: the year of…” and it becomes clear that many have seen this as a year of “death” and...

Alternative Finances
Sears’ Big Data Omnichannel Adventure
July 28, 2014

Big data is only useful data when there is a business vision to ground it. Sears General Manager of “Big Data” Ankur Gupta, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to discuss how data-driven retailers are using new tools and technologies to make omnichannel real...

Alternative Finances
“As Transformative As The Birth of Money”
July 03, 2014

The closing days of Q2 2014 and the dawn of Q3 has seen the cross-border eCommerce world shaken up twice—first with Stripe’s deal with China’s Alipay and then with yesterday’s announcement that Ingenico is acquiring GlobalCollect. BlueSnap CEO Ralph Danglemaier tells MPD CEO Karen Webster...

Company Spotlight
What Drove Consumer Spending in May?
June 24, 2014

April showers bring May flowers … and consumer spending, as it turns out. MasterCard SVP Sarah Quinlan tells MPD CEO Karen Webster that spending by consumers remains strong, fueled by travel and increased spend in a retail category that may surprise you. Listen in to...

Acquiring
A LOOK INSIDE THE CLOVER™ STATION’S ECOSYSTEM
June 18, 2014

Ecosystems rule and one need not look further than Apple to see the powerful innovation that they can unleash. MPD CEO Karen Webster goes deep with three key stakeholders in the new Ignite Payments ecosystem designed to unleash entirely new sources of value to merchants....

Alternative Finances
WePay Names New CFO
June 17, 2014

Payments industry veteran Steve Pellizzer has joined WePay as the company’s new CFO. Pellizzer spoke to MPD CEO Karen Webster about his 12 years in the business and how that’s prepared him to manage the evolving needs of WePay’s dynamic customer segments.

Controversial
Step Aside, Mobile: Banks and Retailers Should Hold Onto Traditional Coupon Strategies
May 29, 2014

Consumers are using their smartphones for all things retail these days. Well, not all things. When it comes to collecting coupons, many are still relying on more traditional methods like newspapers instead of turning to their mobile devices. In a recent podcast interview with PYMNTS,...

Exclusive Series
Apple Interviewing Execs for New Payments Business
April 23, 2014

According to reports, Apple is interviewing senior executives in the payments industry to help create an electronic payments business.