When payments executives talk the current state of the payments ecosystem, there’s always one topic that can’t be avoided: security and fraud. Mobile payment fraud. Mobile deposit fraud. Online fraud. Card fraud. Check fraud. No matter what form of payments we’re talking, there’s always going...
Protecting buyers and sellers on a global scale when it comes to cross-border trading policies is a policy that’s getting more popular in the eCommerce world. Alibaba already had a trade assurance program, but yesterday (July 21) it announced it was upgrading that program to...
The largest P2P marketplace on Earth – Lending Club – is currently worth $7 billion and has seen it loan volume grow 20 percent per month every quarter of 2015 so far. And while LendingClub is the biggest – it is finding itself in an...
As Google rides the YouTube wave, second quarter results topped Wall Street expectations. That speaks to a continued focus on mobile, and also online to offline conversion
Another day, another buy button. It’s not that buy buttons aren’t cool, but it just feels like these days everyone’s got one. There are “proprietary” buy buttons. Facebook put one in Messenger and has added one for ads in the News Feed. Twitter has one....
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Without trust, there can be no commerce. All deals – no matter how complex or simple – have at their center two parties that have to believe in each other: the buyer and the seller. The buyer has to believe the...
As any Boston Red Sox fan knows, a good rivalry can really spice up the action. After thinking for 86 years that there could be nothing on Earth better than breaking the streak by winning the World Series, in 2004 the entire city of Boston...
The problem with security of all kinds is best typified by an experience anyone reading this can relate to — going through the security lines at the airport. After September 11, there are exactly zero adults in the United States who do not understand the...
Facilitating the transfer of money often results in a great deal of misconceptions and issues for both consumers and businesses. But Mike Laven, CEO of Currency Cloud, a B2B cross-border money transferring service, sat down with PYMNTS to discuss how the company’s latest funding will...
