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How B2Bs Can Capitalize On eCommerce
August 26, 2015

eCommerce is coming to the enterprise. A recent study found 93 percent of B2B companies are ready to move buying online, but making the transition is anything but easy. Craig Peasley, Head of Product Marketing for eBay Enterprise sat down with PYMNTS to discuss why...

Making Payments Easy For Mobile Merchants
August 24, 2015

Small, mobile merchants want one and only one thing: a simple way to take their customer’s favorite payments methods. Flint CEO Greg Goldfarb describes how he thinks he's cracked the code for mobile merchants and their interest in becoming more integrated with Apple Pay and...

In Depth
Google Says: Retailers’ Big Back-To-School Takeaways
August 20, 2015

Many associate the end of summer with the beginning of the annual back-to-school shopping season - but according to Google’s Trend report that idea is a little behind the times. So who’s buying what, when and with what device? PYMNTS helps you read the Google...

PayPal Goes Big On Buy Buttons
August 20, 2015

When “Mad Men” went off the air earlier this year, a slew of think pieces, listicles, memes and blog posts flooded the Internet, dissecting how different the world of 1960s was from the 2010s. And while those differences were hashed out in terms of style,...

Alternative Finances
iwoca Rides The Rising Alt Lending Tide
August 18, 2015

They may call August the lazy days of summer, but don’t tell the team at iwoca that - they just secured $20 million in new venture funding and their CEO is on tour in Asia with the U.K.’s Prime Minister. They’ve been a bit under...

Gift Cards As A Second Currency
August 13, 2015

For those who might find gift cards to be impersonal, change is on the horizon. Seth Barnes, Head of Marketing at United Online, shared with PYMNTS the vision for the new mobile gift card app Swappable, and how the technology behind it could subvert perceptions...

In Depth
Small Business Confidence On The Mend
August 11, 2015

U.S. small business confidence took a major hit recently, as the optimism levels of SME owners plummeted to a 15-month low of 94.1 in June, down from 98.3 the month prior. But the latest Small Business Optimism Index results show small business confidence made a...

In Depth
Spending Expectations Slow For US Consumers
August 10, 2015

Americans polled in the latest Survey of Consumer Expectations from the New York Federal Reserve Bank are not looking to splurge on much in the coming year.

In Depth
Tackling Omnichannel Fraud
August 07, 2015

A picture is worth a thousand words, it is said. So here’s an infographic that sums up what happens when two of the biggest buzzwords in payments come together: Omnichannel and Fraud.