Apple has signed up more than 500 banks for Apple Pay, but some bank executives whose institutions are on board with the...
Pop quiz—what is the best type of customer? Although “rich” might be the easiest go-to answer, “loyal” is perhaps a better answer because,...
Discover CEO David Nelms declared late Tuesday (Oct. 21) that his brand–the largest of the card brands to not join Apple Pay–will...
Nobody in the real world likes failure. When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they...
Mobile ordering is a buzz in Portland’s Starbucks market, as the company announced a new app Thursday (Oct. 16) that will enable customers to order...
Faced with research that shows many U.S. customers consider a strong rewards program more important than interest rates when choosing which credit...
Click here to see this week’s investment tracker. Interview With Spreedly Tokenization is not a new idea, but since the announcement...
You can get a store credit card at just about any retailer. The standard question has left consumers with the often split-second...
MasterCard has agreed to a 2-year-contract to mine user data from Facebook Asia-Pacific, packaging it and then reselling it to banks. “MasterCard...
The idea of using American Express points to redeem various rewards is hardly new, but in a joint rollout with McDonalds, the...
Among the myriad of problems mall-based retailers face in the era of diminished traffic to the traditional shopping box, is the issue...
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There’s nothing better than a juicy story. And the juicy story this week was what is said to have lead up to...
Victor Ho, the CEO of 3-year-old loyalty firm FiveStars, has become a veteran of the capital-raising game as he has built his...
North American Bancard CEO Marc Gardner is not a big fan of shopping at large national retailers, saying that he much prefers...
The Apple Pay bandwagon will have to make room for one more as Capital One has rolled out a new mobile wallet app for cardholders...
Loyalty and CRM services and technology company Brierley+Partners has announced Google Wallet support that will allow customers to better organize their various...
Fashionism.com’s new way to keep customers loyal is as old school as it gets–giving customers cash back to keep them coming back....
Americans holding more than one “rewards” card that offer discounts and cash back for different types of purchases can easily get lost...
After Costco Canada’s decision to jump ship from American Express to the Capital One Platinum MasterCard, and all other MasterCard products which...
There is no question that people are buying things online in ever increasing numbers or that they are creating reams of data...
U.S.-based Shopkick is heading toward full acquisition by South Korean wireless company SK Telecom. SK has agreed to pay about $200 million for...
FiveStars, a 3-year-old loyalty reward firm focused on small businesses, has raised $26 million. “Menlo Ventures led the Series B investment, joined...
Apple Pay may be the catalyst that mobile payments needed to get the payments ecosystem cranking, but that’s not all it did....
Just about everyone seemed absolutely giddy over Tim Cook’s breathless announcement of how Apple is revolutionizing payments. I’m hoping now that maybe,...
Mobile wallets are not easy, a statement proved true better by no business than Clinkle. After 17 month of jokes, 30 million...
Lootsie, a startup that allows advertisers target mobile-only rewards to users, announced today that it has hired its first chief operating officer, Steve Cho....
Apple’s new mobile payments system, Apple Pay, is being hailed as a game-changer — a new way to pay that will be...
At Apple’s announcement of its Apple Pay mobile payments initiative on Sept. 9, something was missing: an accompanying loyalty rewards plan that...
Blackhawk Network announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dallas, Texas-based CardLab, Inc., and online provider of prepaid and rewards cards. The move comes...
Alliance Data systems has agrees to acquire Conversant for $2.3 billion. The purchase will reportedly allow Alliance to form an end-to-end marketing...
It looks like Apple might have a tougher time jumping into mobile payments than the euphoric press coverage would indicated, since the...
The Seven Need-to-Knows About Apple’s New iPhones and Mobile Payments 1. Apple will introduce NFC-enabled iPhones–the 6 and 6 Plus...
Over the past week, PYMNTS.com’s brief’s coverage in this newsletter has spanned a broad variety of issues. In this column, we take...
Apple has reportedly negotiated deals with several leading issuers to extend card present rates to Apple for all transactions involving their cards...
Over the past week, PYMNTS.com’s brief’s coverage in this newsletter has spanned a broad variety of issues. In this column, we take...
Funding Circle, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer loans platform that lets small businesses connect with individuals for funding, has acquired U.S.-based stealth startup LeapPay...
American Express and Discover tied for the top spot in J.D. Power’s annual U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study, American Banker reported on...
Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to...
JPMorgan Chase is eliminating cash-back checks from its rewards program for Chase Sapphire, Chase Freedom and Ink credit card customers, according to...
Earlier this week, the National Retail Federation reported that July retail sales, excluding automobiles, gas stations and restaurants, were flat, growing just...
Amazon on Wednesday (Aug. 13) introduced its own mPOS package—to be called Amazon Local Register—and focused on the tune it knows that SMB...
Condé Nast’s Epicurious is making its second big iBeacon push of 2014. Swirl—the business behind Hudson’s and Lord and Taylor’s recent iBeacon upgrades—will...
Executives always want to know where a particular trend—especially a payment type—will be many years in the future. But it takes a...
Retail real estate developer Simon is moving to make mall-based shopping a little more technologically advanced with beacons. Simon has expanded its...
Call it the efficiency effect, but shoppers are making an increasingly large number of their purchases outside of physical stores—or at the...
Just when things were starting to look up for Blackberry, Apple has swooped in and disrupted it … again. Until now, things...
PayPal has updated it’s iOS app to version 5.5, and with that comes a new ability for users by providing an mWallet...
Yesterday a curious phenomenon swept the nation--a sudden and overwhelming desire to be in a bar of the middle of the work...
Yesterday, ride-sharing start-up and fundraising juggernaut Uber announced a partnership with American Express that will allow Uber users who are also qualified cardholders enrolled...