Merchant Innovation

Inside Digital River’s Data Driven Approach To International Expansion
March 25, 2015

Today (March 25) at 11:45 AM PT, Digital River will present "By the Numbers: Data Driven Approach to International Expansion" at Merchant Risk Council conference in Las Vegas. Managing over $35 billion in online transactions per year, the company "has access to a wealth of...

Another $921M Invested And Optimal Bets On Skrill
March 25, 2015

One of online gaming’s hottest rivalries is at an end. Yesterday, Optimal Payments – parent company of the Neteller digital wallet – announced its $1.2 billion dollar acquisition of Skrill – parent of the eponymously named mobile product. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Apple’s New Support For Merchant Partners
March 25, 2015

In an attempt to up the number of merchants currently accepting Apple Pay – as well as highlight the ones who already do – Apple is pushing a new website. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

MasterCard Labs Has A New Leader With A New Mandate
March 25, 2015

Betty DeVita has been appointed MasterCard’s chief commercial officer of payments innovation, research and development. DeVita is now tasked with bringing the technologies developed in MasterCard labs to the markets that they hope to disrupt. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Merchant Innovation
Gap’s Next Innovation — Vending Machines?
March 25, 2015

If there’s one takeaway to learn about how Gap CEO Art Peck is approaching its retail future it’s that he’s willing to try almost anything on the tech side to see what gets customers excited. This may mean — as he once said in an...

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Kabbage To License Its Lending Platform
March 24, 2015

It is no secret or surprise at this point that small business lending has been broken since the Great Recession in a way that seems stubbornly resistant to improvement – if you’re a small business looking for capital. Depending on what measure one uses, between...

Three Ways MasterCard Pushes FinTech Forward
March 24, 2015

MasterCard is teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to once again power the highly selective, four-month virtual startup accelerator program called Commerce.Innovated. As the start of this year’s Spring Class is just around the corner, PYMNTS caught up with Gone!, a startup participant last year...

Williams-Sonoma’s Recipe For Payments Success
March 24, 2015

Retailers are realizing that to stay relevant in today’s hyper-competitive environment, they’ve got to set themselves apart by tailoring their retail experience and tapping into whatever drew the customer to the retailer in the first place. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Amazon’s Customer-Centric Focus
March 24, 2015

“Everybody’s talking and no one says a word,” wrote John Lennon in his popular “Nobody Told Me,” song from 1984. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....