Mobile Commerce

B2B Payments
MasterCard’s Big Play For Small Businesses
May 13, 2014

Small Businesses create two out of every three jobs in the US and keep the wheels of commerce spinning. Today marks the first day of a weeklong celebration of the role of Small Business in driving this country’s economic growth engine. Ed Glassman, MasterCard’s Global...

B2B Payments
Swedbank Gains Assistance In Its Multichannel Banking Strategy
May 13, 2014

Swedish savings bank will use hardware and software solutions from NCR to help address rising consumer demand in Baltic states for technology and online tools for enhanced banking access and education.

B2B Payments
The Rx For Healthcare Payments
May 13, 2014

The past year has been a busy one for healthcare, with drastic changes in coverage, insurance options, taxes, and overall reform. The 2013 Trends in Healthcare Payments report showcases the market trends that are impacting the industry.

In Depth
The Straight Scoop on EMV, Tokenization and P2PE
May 13, 2014

Data security breaches have had heads spinning throughout the payments ecosystem as merchants sort through a variety of options designed to keep cardholder data safe. While it is now clear that there is no “silver bullet” to be found, there is merit in having a...

Cool
Point And Click With No Schtick
May 13, 2014

XX Startups promise to make payments life a breeze. EMV. eCommerce. OpenStack. All at the click of a mouse.

First Data: April Same-Store Spending Up 4.1 percent
May 12, 2014

Warmer weather last month got more folks to leave their homes, and to shop. Same-store spending in April grew 4.1 percent, a full percentage point above March’s year-over-year growth, according to First Data’s SpendTrend report. Other research, however, suggests consumer confidence in their financial situation...

Mobile Commerce
Cashless Society? Are We Nearly There?
May 12, 2014

Maybe the cards filling up consumers’ wallets are just making less room for cash, but nearly eight out of 10 (78 percent) U.S. consumers carry less than $50 with them at any one time, with 49 percent carrying $20 or less, new survey data show....

Merchant Innovation
Square Ditches Its Mobile Wallet
May 12, 2014

As of May 12th, Square will no longer be offering its mobile wallet for download from either the Apple or Google stores, though they are now offering Square Order. This function will allow users to both pick-up orders from, and pay at  Square merchants right from...

Media Center
Budgeting: Are Prepaid Cards the Future of Personal Financial Management?
May 12, 2014

Motherhood. Apple pie. Budgeting. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch but a new report from i2c on the benefits of prepaid as a budgeting tool might actually give that “b-word” more status in the eyes of consumers these days and issuers a new...