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Innovation In Bill Payment
April 20, 2015

Twice in his recent discussion with MPD CEO Karen Webster, Peter Kwakernaak, the CEO of AcceptEmail, compared his company to Apple. Not that he was saying they were one and the same, mind you. Rather, Kwakernaak drew the comparison as an example of what he...

The Backward/Forward Card Security Solution
March 23, 2015

Since the beginning of 2015, there have been over 20 major data breaches logged in the United States; Anthem, the Mandarin Hotel and Chick-fil-A are three of the biggest, but it seems that the international cybercriminal community is determined to surpass 2014 in its efforts to illegally harvest data from...

How Forter Is Fighting Cybercrime
March 16, 2015

A psychologist, a criminologist and a biologist walk in to a cybersecurity firm reads at first like the setup of an extremely conceptual joke. It is not. It is, however, actually how Israeli cybersecurity firm Forter is building a next generation platform to outthink an...

Tab: Is The Future Of Payments Social?
March 09, 2015

  In 1640, the English poet John Donne famously wrote in meditation 17 “No man is island.” Given the contemporary limitations of travel and communications in the 17th century, that was clearly intended as a metaphorical explanation of the nature of humanity, rather than any...

Stellar And Solving The Unexpected Tragedy Of The Financial System
March 02, 2015

“The unexpected tragedy of our financial system is that the less money you have, the more expensive it is to send money around.” Those are the words of Joyce Kim, executive director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a small non-profit with a big goal: to...

Why Worldpay Is Changing The Payments Conversation
February 23, 2015

In 1985, bright colors and shoulder pads were the height of fashion, the perm was the nation’s most popular hairstyle, and WHAM was behind the No. 1 and No. 3 most popular songs of the year (Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” broke up the WHAM party at...

Mozido, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Acquisitions
February 16, 2015

Mozido is on a roll. In December 2014, the cloud platform mobile payments and retail engagement solutions provider made the significant acquisition of CorFire. And last week, (Feb. 10), it announced that it had acquired PayEase. Although Mozido’s Founder and Chairman of Global Strategic Initiatives, Michael...

Is The Integrated POS System The Future Of Financial Services
February 02, 2015

There’s an old joke, told in many forms where one person asks for directions to a famous place, followed by the wrong type of direction. “How do you get to Radio City Music Hall?” “Practice.” “How do you get to Harvard?” “Study.” And while we...