How quaint. No voicemail and guaranteeing calls get answered within three rings. Hear why Jonathan Quin, CEO of UK-based World First thinks that competing with the big boys in the B2B cross border market means taking a page out of a playbook that is decades...
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...
Most large merchants have visions of omnichannel dancing thru their heads, but having to manage multiple acquirer relationships makes that tough. A European startup called Zooz has solved that problem for merchants in Europe and is now headed to the US. What’s their formula for...
Discover’s success with its flagship Discover It card helped the issuer and card network to drive strong growth in second-quarter card sales. But pressure is mounting on the debit side of the business. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Nintendo announced this week that its Wii video game console will now be able to accept payment cards in Japan. It was reported that the update went live yesterday and lets users tap a contactless Suica fare card against the Wii U’s gamepad to access their...
Startup Quandoo wants to take on OpenTable in the real-time restaurant reservation game. And as of yesterday, it had $25 million more in funding to help it in that battle. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Amazon is nowhere near finished in terms of offering customers the latest and greatest digital payment options. According to Payments Source, Amazon released a beta version of a digital wallet for Android and Fire phone users. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
“If PayPal can board me in 5 minutes, why can’t my acquirer?” Automating the boarding and underwriting process has completely reinvented what used to take days (even weeks) and cost a lot of money. But does it save time at the expense of other downside...
GPS + Improved Productivity = Cost Savings that support an effective fleet management solution. That’s the business case for the recent partnership between GPS fleet-management company Geotab and telematics company Enterprise Fleet Management. But how will combining forces help fleet managers control spend?
