The word is out about instant payments — a fact made largely indisputable by the numbers. According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Disbursement Tracker, 64 percent of consumers have heard of instant payments and are interested in knowing more, a dramatic uptick over 2017...
Don’t think of them as mere podcasts — though PYMNTS certainly does a lot of podcasts, discussing with payments and commerce experts the hottest topics of the day, with each conversation not only digging into the past and present but having an outlook toward the...
Industries are abuzz with the fast-growing potential of machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence that allows programs to change, adapt and, obviously, learn from new data without requiring additional programming effort and human intervention. While these intuitive computing capabilities look to innovate and...
Merchants in Aalborg, a city in northern Denmark, have deployed a wide array of sensors throughout their annual Christmas market to track the movements of shoppers, according to VentureBeat. For the 2014 holiday season, the Aalborg City Business Association has installed BlipTrack, a system made...
To a degree that would likely shock an outsider, the payments industry loves a thrill. The industry’s favorite adjective is “disruptive” and an invisible disruption is, well, intuitively something that sounds objectively impossible—like a round square. Why such an atmosphere would attract innovative and revolutionary...
What does a Chief Ninja do on his summer vacation? MPD CEO Karen Webster got a chance to find out when she chatted with LevelUp Chief Ninja Seth Priebatsch about the company's latest expansion this summer, which will move LevelUp into a crowded but lucrative...
Since the Great Recession, buyers and suppliers seem locked in a perpetually adversarial cycle when it comes to billing. Dynamic discounting aims to disrupt the adversarial cycle with an associative one where buyers and suppliers share incentives to collaborate. PYMNTS spoke to Ariba’s Director of...
Big data is only useful data when there is a business vision to ground it. Sears General Manager of “Big Data” Ankur Gupta, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to discuss how data-driven retailers are using new tools and technologies to make omnichannel real...
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...
