In Depth

B2B Payments
B2B Breakthrough: Discover, Ariba Launch AribaPay
May 08, 2013

Really and truly solving the B2B payments’ problem over the years has been a little bit like proving Fermat’s last theorem – lots and lots have tried and a few have even gotten pretty close. But no one has been able to enter the market...

Company Spotlight
Discover, PayPal Make Merchant Acquiring Momentum
May 07, 2013

On August 22, 2012, Discover and PayPal announced a partnership that positioned the two entities as real threats to the established payments landscape. Now, just eight months later, we’re starting to see the fruits of that partnership, as Discover’s offline PayPal operating rules officially came...

Company Spotlight
ROAM, Ingenico Take On mPOS Ecosystem With New Growth Strategy
April 16, 2013

French payments terminal company Ingenico is aiming to grow its annual revenue to above $2.3 billion in 2016. Essential to this growth is mobile point of sale powerhouse ROAM. Just a few weeks ago Ingenico laid out plans during its Investor Day to accelerate its...

Company Spotlight
ROAM Focuses On International, Mobile Growth With New Exec
April 09, 2013

Scott Goldthwaite was named new Senior Vice President of Operations at ROAM less than two weeks ago, on April 1, 2013. A man with experience at payments innovators such as Payment Planet, Hypercom, WAY Systems and other companies, Goldthwaite’s resume speaks for itself when it...

Company Spotlight
MWC Day One: Visa, ROAM, Samsung, NFC And More
February 26, 2013

Welcome to Day One of PYMNTS.com’s Mobile World Congress 2013 Recap: a comprehensive look at all the most important payments announcements and coolest stories from MWC2013 in Barcelona, Spain. We will be live on-site for all four days of the conference and aim to bring...

Hmmm
MasterCard’s Gary Flood On The Global Mind
February 21, 2013

What does the concept of the “Global Mind” entail? At The Innovation Project 2013, we’re determined to find out. First coined by former Vice President Al Gore around eight years ago, the Global Mind is the result of technology connecting people and information from all...

Innovation, Regulation And Payments Hubs: Global Payments’ Future
February 19, 2013

It’s obvious that the global payments ecosystem is undergoing rapid innovation. What’s less apparent is what’s causing such change. To discuss some of the key factors that drive the global payments system, Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster spoke with Matt Friend, managing director at...

Financial Inclusion
Improving the Economics of Small-Balance Accounts
April 21, 2011

Global financial inclusion surveys show that there are billions of low-income individuals who want a safe place to save, and evidence suggests that they are willing to pay for it. Many low-income individuals are currently able to store small values with licensed financial service providers....

Cool
Educating the Next Generation of Security Professionals
April 21, 2011

Editor’s Note   In the world today, few topics are more talked about and less understood than “cyber security.” Almost daily, it seems, we hear of another threat to the computer systems that support and control the world’s critical infrastructure. Attacks on government and industry...