The payments industry this year will continue to see a lot of investment in new technologies, and while that will create disruption in the market, it will create opportunities as well, contends Greg Pesci, president of ProPay. In a recent podcast interview with PYMNTS.com’s...
Move over, Wii. Currently, free and low-cost apps are what gaming consumers are downloading and playing these days, most of which are on mobile devices. In a recent podcast interview, MPD CEO Karen Webster spoke with BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier to learn just how these...
It’s not all that easy to make payments to another business across borders, especially for SMBs. The process tends to be opaque and costly. The Currency Cloud is a small start-up with a big idea: fixing this for businesses of all sizes. PYMNTS caught up...
Pop Quiz, how many rewards program are you a member of right now? If your answer is in the family of “ummm, I don’t know, a lot?” then according to New York Times Reporter and best-selling author Charles Duhigg, those rewards programs are failing both...
Ask any merchant how much they liked their onboarding process. It's generally pretty cumbersome - but for a reason. Assessing the risk of a new merchant is nothing to be taken lightly. But Recombo has completely innovated that process, making it less costly, quicker, and...
Every year $21 billion goes up in smoke due to fraud based on identity theft. miiCard thinks it has a solution that could cut that as much as 80% per year. PYMNTS caught up with Founder and CEO James Varga about how miiCard’s new virtual...
MPD CEO Karen Webster and BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier went around the world to explore the opportunities and challenges of doing business in some of the most dynamic markets for commerce. Here are a few highlights about what it will take to win in these...
In a tight credit market and fragile economy there are still a lot of things that the FI and payments community can do to help SMBs succeed. Eugene DeSilva, MasterCard’s Group Head responsible for the Global SME Segment within the Global Commercial Products Group, tells...
Healthcare billing is anything but simple. Among complexities, the billing cycle varies in length, meaning it can be very difficult to know when money is going to be due from payers or available to payees. Sorting that out presents a major problem for managers and...
