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B2B Payments
How Ripple Labs Simplifies B2B Payments
May 21, 2014

What can the Ripple protocol do that basic core banking infrastructure can’t? Move money in real time, efficiently, securely and at a lower cost. The Ripple protocol was recently adopted by Fidor AG bank in Germany to increase the speed at which money could move...

Acquiring
Vantiv, Mercury CEOs Discuss Growth Post-Acquisition
May 21, 2014

Vantiv's recently announced plans to acquire Mercury Payment Systems rounds out its strategic roadmap with an integrated business solutions platform serving small and midsize businesses. As CEOs Charles Drucker (Vantiv) and Matt Taylor (Mercury) told Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster in a recent podcast...

Financial Inclusion
The mPOS Pioneer And Its Future Plans
May 21, 2014

The world was a different place in 1999-cell phone use was just leaking into the mainstream, Palm Pilots were the next big thing and almost no one had ever thought about the concept of a mobile point-of-sale. Well, almost no one-as it turns out Infinite...

CEO Series
CEO Series: BlueSnap Takes Charge in Cross-Border Payments
May 19, 2014

In this installment of the PYMNTS CEO Series, Karen Webster speaks with Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap, to learn his thoughts on payments innovation, how the industry is changing and more. Where does Dangelmaier believe young innovators should look for innovative ideas, and what advice...

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Can Camera Phones Improve Online Conversions?
May 16, 2014

Shopping cart abandonment in an increasingly mobile world is the result of a the lengthy and often tedious check out process that consumers don't have the patience (or finger dexterity) to tackle. Payments and software-as-a-service company Jumio says it has cracked the code on this...

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Budgeting: Are Prepaid Cards the Future of Personal Financial Management?
May 12, 2014

Motherhood. Apple pie. Budgeting. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch but a new report from i2c on the benefits of prepaid as a budgeting tool might actually give that “b-word” more status in the eyes of consumers these days and issuers a new...

Company Spotlight
Will Wallets Mobilize Mobile Point of Sale?
May 12, 2014

Go big or go home. Recent industry trends show that top mobile point-of-sale players are now fixated on distribution – gaining scale and volume by forming partnerships and enhancing their mPOS platforms. Many of these partnerships are taking shape thanks to the interest in integrating...

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Family-Friendly Financial Facts
May 09, 2014

Do you know how many people prefer using credit cards as their primary instrument of choice? Or the number of financial institutions offering mobile P2P? Find these answers and more on this week’s Friday Factoids.

B2B Payments
The Biggest Unrealized Opportunity in B2B Payments
May 06, 2014

There are a lot of things that get in the way of enterprises using electronic methods to pay each other. One of the biggest is forcing buyers and suppliers to adapt to entirely new processes. NVoicePay says it has cracked the code on supplier enablement...