Brilliant minds came together over the past few weeks to address three complicated industry problems, and on March 20 we learned which were winners of this year’s Innovative Payments Think-A-Thon.
Did you know that Russia exports $160 billion worth of oil and natural gas each year? That 80% of Kenyan mobile-phone customers use their phones to make mobile payments? That the human population will consume 16 billion jellybeans between now and Easter? If not, keep...
Hackers seems to be taking a break (OK, we know they’re not). But there were no major merchant data breaches to report again this week. Perhaps the plenty of activity around creating and introducing defense mechanisms is having an affect.
Payments Hall of Fame and the Lifetime Achievements Award winners have been chosen, and tonight at the Innovator Awards presentations we will learn who will be among the winners of a number of prestigious honors at the Innovation Project event in Boston. And a drum...
Many consumers have returned to using cash, driven by fear of using payment cards that merchants might let get compromised with insufficient protections. As the amount of cash they handle increases, a new survey report suggests merchants in turn should work to improve their cash-handling...
Pangea Payments enables international cash-to-cash transfers, providing a platform that is convenient and easy to use for consumers. Pangea Founder and CEO Rahier Rahman spoke with Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster in a podcast interview, discussing Pangea’s innovative idea and where the company is...
It’s rare that the top innovators in the world meet in one location, but that’s just what’s happening today in Boston, as the Innovation Project 2014 kicks off at Harvard University. Though the media are not invited to attend, PYMNTS.com will provide exclusive coverage of...
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Point-of-sale (POS) integration platform eThor provides software that creates a two-way communication between local merchants’ POS systems and user devices. In a recent podcast interview, eThor Founder and CEO Gary Ziegler told Karen Webster, CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, that the company has also built...
