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Cross-border Payments
PYMNTS Talks Back: PayPal’s Marcus Jumps to Facebook, The Payments Implications of the Apple Ecosystem,...
June 14, 2014

Some pretty big stuff got the payments industry talking this week. PayPal’s President moves to Facebook, World Cup revelers can’t get Brazilian currency and a mobile payments innovator claims HCE isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. That was just Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!...

B2B Payments
Can Fleet Card Activity Gauge U.S. Economic Health?
June 13, 2014

As the economy goes, so go corporate fleet programs? That might not be entirely true, but an analyst on June 11 inquired about whether a top executive at WEX could gauge any modest improvement in the U.S. economy based on what the fleet card provider...

Redefining What B2B Commerce Really Is
June 13, 2014

Ten years ago, InsiteSoftware was developed to bring ecommerce solutions to manufacturers.  Over the last decade that vision has developed and expanded to provide ecommerce solutions to address the unique needs of B2B and B2C sites by providing commerce platforms for distribution and retail organizations,...

Cybersecurity
EMV In The U.S.: It Will Be A Long Ride
June 13, 2014

By the time the card networks’ EMV liability-shift deadline takes effect in October next year, potentially far less than half of the nation’s cards and payment terminals will comply. Legislation and various controversial issues, such as whether to support PINs or signatures for authentication or...

B2B Payments
Agrawal: Western Union Seeing B2B Gains, Expects More To Come
June 13, 2014

Fueled in large part by its 2011 acquisition of Travelex, Western Union has made great strides in growing its B2B funds-transfers activities. But with just a 2 percent market share, the company’s interim CFO, Anil Agrawal sees a bright future as it looks to tap...

Will Discounts Drive Bitcoin Adoption?
June 13, 2014

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Cybersecurity
MasterCard Sees Revenue Opportunities In Tokenization
June 13, 2014

Like all processors, MasterCard sees revenue opportunities from the growing use of payment card tokenization and other fraud-prevention measures. Later this year, for example, the network expects to launch its Digital Enablement System, which would support the tokenization of clients’ card data. But MasterCard expects...

Company Profile
CluckCluck: The App For Calling, And Paying Babysitters
June 13, 2014

Ton of apps help parents find babysitters. But one, called CluckCluck, allows parents to not only communicate with them but pay them as well. PYMNTS.com spoke recently with co-founder Heather Estenson Joyce to learn more on how this payments app can help cash-strapped parents strapped...

B2B Payments
How TSYS Is Working To Ease Procurement Pain
June 12, 2014

TSYS recently brought on Walter Taylor to serve as the company’s global chief procurement officer. Taylor spoke with MPD CEO Karen Webster on his new role with TSYS, and how he is working to develop innovation through the aggregation of information in a way to...