From a leading card network’s digital ambitions to greater clarity on a social network’s payment strategy, this year’s earnings season has produced lots of interesting insights for folks in the payments industry. To bring it all together, PYMNTS.com has summarized what we’ve learned so far...
How can banks remain relevant with SMBs? By enabling innovators that solve their biggest payments, billing and banking problems. This may sound like heresy to a traditional banker but that’s the strong medicine that the industry has to take in order to serve SMBs. It’s...
Competing with disruptors is out and embracing disruption is in, says Capital One’s Head of National Small Banking and Digital Platforms Brian Hamilton. He told MPD CEO Karen Webster that FIs are wrong to think any differently and innovators are wrong to think that FIs...
There are lots of options for SMBs to embrace new technologies to manage their accounts receivables, payments and invoicing. But as far as technology has come, most smaller businesses still use paper and manual processes to collect outstanding receivables. But why?
Now we know. Visa plans to be as dominant in the digital world as it is in the physical card world today. Charlie Scharf, Visa’s CEO, laid out Visa Digital Solutions, to the world during yesterday’s quarterly earnings call also acknowledging that Visa needs to...
Sure, most people know they can turn to Amazon or eBay for their online shopping needs, but how many company owners turn to those sites for their business needs? Surprisingly, more than one might think. With reports showing that the B2B online marketplace is growing,...
How quaint. No voicemail and guaranteeing calls get answered within three rings. Hear why Jonathan Quin, CEO of UK-based World First thinks that competing with the big boys in the B2B cross border market means taking a page out of a playbook that is decades...
The mobile payments market just got rocked, as LoopPay announced it secured an investment from Visa. What does a card network that has invested tons in NFC and EMV want with a mobile payments solution that leverages mag stripe technology? Well, providing their issuers and...
How consumers interact with computers while online says a lot about them. So much so that a British company believes it can use individuals’ so-called eDNA to market products that can alleviate the need for sites to require usernames and passwords. But what will consumers...
