Merchant Innovation

B2B Payments
WEX Has Canada In Its Cards
May 23, 2014

Fleet card provider WEX plans to take it fleet card to Canada, as more of its U.S. customers have operations in both countries. WEX has grand global growth plans overall, fueled by expanding relations with such fuel companies as ExxonMobil.

Merchant Innovation
Study: More Than Half Of mWallets Will Feature mPayments
May 23, 2014

Mobile-contactless payments have long been widely predicted to be on the verge of exploding, but the boom as of yet has not been felt in the marketplace. While we’ve heard it before, Juniper research predicts that soon we will all see it as well. In...

Media Center
Clover and Ignite Payments: What Sets Their Bond Apart
May 22, 2014

Integrated business solutions are the new “black” in merchant acquiring, offering new value to merchants and new value to the acquiring industry and distribution networks that serve them. Noel Fundora, SVP of Ignite Payments, and Mark Schulze, co-founder of Clover, sat down with MPD CEO...

Exclusive Series
How to Woo Multi-Channel Shoppers: A Strategy for Merchants
May 22, 2014

Consumers move seamlessly between their connected devices 21 times every hour, doing everything from texting to shopping. They expect retailers to be in lockstep with them and things that were once thought of as innovative as now “table stakes.” In this exclusive interview, Mike Passilla,...

Merchant Innovation
Apple Confirms WWDC Keynote, New Product Announcement Expected
May 22, 2014

Thought it has become standard procedure for Apple to lead off the World Wide Developers Conference with a keynote speech, the polymath tech company has only now just confirmed that it will be delivering their WWOC keynote on Monday June 2, 2014, reports 9to5mac. CEO Tim Cook...

Merchant Innovation
What’s Driving Mobile Commerce Growth?
May 22, 2014

New research about the growth of mobile commerce over the next few years has the web buzzing. But we thought that knowing exactly what retail segments are driving the growth and where the biggest share of spend is and will be over the next several...

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...

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...

Apple’s Angela Ahrendts To Focus On China And Mobile Payments
May 20, 2014

Three weeks into her tenure as Apple’s head of retail, Angela Ahrendts is outlining a three-part strategy for Apples retail future. It includes a stonger emphasis on China as a market, mobile payments, and revamping the end-to-end sales experience at brick-and-mortar Apple stores. Get the Full...