Swatch’s next move toward joining the wearable payments market just got a big backer to help the plan move forward. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
Chances are that the things on consumers’ holiday wish lists this year are exactly what fraudsters’ wish for too. Michael Reitblat, Co-founder and CEO of Forter, gave MPD CEO Karen Webster a look into the mind of the cybercriminal, what they’ll be buying online with...
JPMorgan Chase is taking online security seriously — so much so that it will begin disabling customers’ access to their accounts through third-party software if they don’t take additional verification steps. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
How Airbnb is making the leap into corporate travel, and giving road warriors options beyond hotels and motels.
Email marketing drove 18 percent of holiday spend in 2014 – as did the Monday and Tuesday after Thanksgiving – and not the weekend in-between. Digital River’s holiday shopping list for retailers offers new advice on how they can grab consumers’ attention across the growing...
The weather has been warm all around the U.S. — much to the irritation and chagrin of the nation’s retailers. But the investment marketplace has had just the opposite “weather pattern;” in fact, it’s been a decidedly chilly place for the last several weeks. The weather...
With Facebook and Twitter paving the way for the rise of social commerce, the concept of shopping via social media is transitioning into a new commerce sector of its own. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
The massive disruption of the retail space has plenty of merchants scrambling after things like social commerce without quite knowing what exactly they should be doing to help their businesses. While plenty of startups have managed to isolate this or that customers’ preferences and activities...
What can the payments industry learn from retail (and vice versa)? PYMNTS breaks that down -- plus explores the seasonal hiring boom’s effect on retail security, as well as the continued gaps in consumer password protection -- in this Thanksgiving edition of the Retail Security...
