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B2B Payments
Can Virtual Identities Eliminate Fraud?
April 18, 2014

Every year $21 billion goes up in smoke due to fraud based on identity theft. miiCard thinks it has a solution that could cut that as much as 80% per year. PYMNTS caught up with Founder and CEO James Varga about how miiCard’s new virtual...

B2B Payments
New Tools For Banks To Help SMBs Manage Cash Flow
April 15, 2014

Small businesses often struggle with cash management and find themselves guesstimating about how much cash is at their disposal to pay bills, invest in new technologies and services and general operations. A new platform that turns this art into a reliable science is now available...

Alternative Finances
Innovation Comes to HealthCare Payments
April 15, 2014

Healthcare billing is anything but simple.  Among complexities, the billing cycle varies in length, meaning it can be very difficult to know when money is going to be due from payers or available to payees.  Sorting that out presents a major problem for managers and...

What’s Missing from Mobile Wallets: A TSYS Report
April 15, 2014

Mobile wallets are on the rise, and consumers are being given a wide variety of choices when downloading them to their devices. However, according to a TSYS white paper released today, consumers are still hesitant to replace their cards with these mobile wallets. What’s causing...

In Depth
ROAM Recognized As Highest Ranking mPOS Terminal Vendor
April 15, 2014

Earlier in the month, ROAM was the highest-ranking mPOS terminal vendor within ABI Research’s mPOS Competitive Assessment.  A major part of the company’s strategy is to sell to continue to sell to a particular market without limiting themselves to other opportunities. The London-based research firm...

B2B Payments
How Armor Payments Hopes To Make B2B Payments Secure, Reliable and Cost Effective
April 14, 2014

There is an old adage in the construction industry – “fast, good or cheap: pick two,” that could easily be adopted to the B2B payments industry – “secure, frictionless, or cost effective- pick two.” In the B2B space, where buyers and suppliers need each other...

B2B Payments
Fleet Payments Now Anywhere The Road Takes Them
April 10, 2014

To cover Voyager members wherever the road may take them, U.S. Bank announced their pilot program, U.S. Bank Fleet Virtual Pay, on April 9th. This program will enable cardless purchases wherever MasterCard is accepted, expanding payment options that are available for drivers while eliminating the...

In Depth
Read This, Then Develop Your Mobile Commerce Plan
April 10, 2014

ComScore just published its 2014 US Digital Roadmap which is stuffed with amazing data points. We’ve boiled it down to the 5 essential truths about payments, commerce and the US digital consumer and added some of our own key insights so you can plug and...

In Depth
Start-ups Move Into the Big Leagues
April 08, 2014

Several new payments startups earned recognition this week for swimming into the big leagues and, highlight this week’s Startup Roundup. One such company, PayStand, said bye-bye to beta to take on magnate PayPal.