Mobile Commerce

Alibaba’s Stock Slumps — Again
September 01, 2015

Amid the turmoil that has rocked the Chinese stock market and names that are traded on the U.S. exchanges, one name stands out among many, and that’s Alibaba. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Mobile Commerce
PayPal’s New Way To Make Pals Pay Back
September 01, 2015

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Hill Ferguson — PayPal’s SVP Of Consumer Business — Is Moving On
September 01, 2015

It looks like former eBay/PayPal CEO John Donahoe will not be alone taking a long vacation post-PayPal spinoff. Hill Ferguson, who is currently product and engineering boss for PayPal’s consumer business, is bowing out. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Europe
Apple’s Good News In The UK — The Contactless Payment Cap Has Been Upped (Slightly)
September 01, 2015

Apple Pay launched in the U.K. around a month ago — albeit with one very sharp limit. Consumers, due to a cap on contactless payments methods (like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, contactless cards or just about anything that makes use of NFC) were limited to...

Apple Pay’s Heading Off To College (In Oklahoma)
September 01, 2015

This week the University of Oklahoma will be a payments pioneer as it becomes the first university to accept Apple Pay across its campus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Cross-Border’s Best-In-Class Merchants
September 01, 2015

You want to succeed in cross-border commerce? No better place to start than by looking at the merchants that are at the top of their game. In a recent webinar about the latest X-Border Optimization Index, John Phillips, Head of Marketing for Digital River World...

“First, Let’s Kill All The (Payments) Innovators!”
August 31, 2015

Dick The Butcher, in Shakespeare’s "Henry VI," famously proposed “first let’s kill the lawyers” as the most appropriate way to jumpstart the overthrow he was cooking up. Fast forward a few centuries and MPD CEO Karen Webster posits that The Clearing House’s (TCH) latest white...

International
MasterCard On Building Silk Road 2.0
August 31, 2015

As China sees slowing growth, to levels not seen in a quarter century, there’s a silver lining, says MasterCard. It lays out the three pillars that it believes will not only enable a stronger China and its trading partners, but SMEs, in particular. A new...

Cool
Consumers Make The World Go ‘Round Edition — Visa Checkout, Credit Rating And Cybercrime
August 31, 2015

Well, it’s finally come upon us. The last “official” week of summer has arrived. And after last week’s thrills and spills on the stock market, most of us are hoping to ease into the last week doing positively normal things like wearing white (it is...