BlackBerry’s smartphone sales continue to show fewer and fewer signs of economic life and seems the company is now following the common advice it is being given. Get out of hardware and make the move to platform services. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
E-payments processing firm Emerging Markets Payments has opened an office in Kenya. The company covers main payment channels such as cards, mobile and ID-enabled payments for more than 130 banks and 30k merchants in 35 countries. In Kenya there are 10.7 payments cards, with a...
Guatemala will be the first Central American country to offer m-POS, with Tigo launching its product. 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 to our daily...
TSYS recently brought on Walter Taylor to serve as the company’s global chief procurement officer. Taylor spoke with MPD CEO Karen Webster on his new role with TSYS, and how he is working to develop innovation through the aggregation of information in a way to...
The race for faster settlement through automated clearinghouse (ACH) payments continues to heat up. And Western Union soon may be in the driver’s seat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Host Card Emulation (HCE) has been hailed as the cloud-based fix for what ails secure mobile payments. But while HCE solves one problem, it still lives in the cloud. Suppose cloud connectivity were unavailable or lost? In a recent podcast interview, PYMNTS spoke with Shaunt...
Alibaba, the popular Chinese ecommerce site, has been making headlines recently for everything from launching a U.S. ecommerce site to announcing that it would soon go public. Now, Alibaba will also be known for being part of the “biggest merger in the history of China’s...
Basware Corp., which supplies accounts-payable and eInvoicing software to businesses, recently expanded its relationship with a European brewing company to assist in its North American operations. The Finland-based firm, which also scored recent deals with an Indian IT solutions provider and a UK hospitality company,...
Two Dubai residents claim that not only did they experience credit card fraud, but that their cards were used to make unauthorized payments to the Abu Dhabi Police. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
