A year and two months before the world would be introduced to the iPhone, the notion of buying anything on a mobile device other than a ringtone — much less using it to actually initiate the purchase and pay for the item — was nary more than...
Last week, TSYS’ Sarah Hartman and Adam Smitherman shared new data with Karen Webster about the state of payments in Canada and the U.S. in a live broadcast. Some of what was disclosed was rather interesting, maybe even surprising. For instance, more than 50 percent...
Alipay, the digital payments platform, of Alibaba’s financial arm, Ant Financial, is ready for its biggest global expansion: Europe. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren delivered a speech yesterday (April 4) at the bank’s 2016 Cybersecurity Conference highlighting the economic and cyber risks financial institutions are facing today. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Since the time of ENIAC-sized mainframes taking up entire gymnasiums, the processing power of the average computer has grown as exponentially as their sizes have shrunk. The number of transistor chips on a single microprocessor has roughly doubled every two years since the ’60s, and the...
Having discovered an interest in product discovery, Ebates has ponied up some cash to support a company in that space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
Retailers are busy. Can they be expected to take a hands-on approach to every security threat that emerges in the industry? Possibly not. But, as recent instances have proven, the very least that retailers need to do is stay educated about potential risks and the...
As millennials have overtaken the workplace, so too have their preferred ways of communication. And if email was the way their parents gossiped, joked and actually talked about work at work, then Slack is the way they do it now. Get the Full Story Complete...