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Retail: The Tip Of The MPOS Iceberg
September 27, 2013

“Consumers like the convenience that [mobile point of sale] (mPOS) solutions provide in traditional retail stores and say they are willing to recommend retailers that use those solutions to their friends.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Two Other Problems Digital Wallets Solve
September 26, 2013

Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

The Durbin Amendment
September 24, 2013

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Can Plastic Notes Clean Up Cash’s Act?
September 20, 2013

Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which companies grabbed the most headlines – for better or for worse – this week, and...

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Discover’s Diane Offereins Named Among 25 Most Powerful Women In Finance
September 18, 2013

Diane Offereins, Discover’s executive vice president of payment services, has been named one of the 25 most powerful women in finance, per American Banker. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Discover Expands In Europe With New Diners Club Deal
September 13, 2013

Discover subsidiary Diners Club International announced a new relationship with Atos-owned electronic payment service Worldline on September 13, a press release revealed. Gerry Wagner, Discover’s vice president of global acceptance, said the move will allow Discover to expand its services further into Europe. Get the...

Podcast
September 13, 2013

Welcome to our PYMNTS.com Podcast Page. Here, we gather the industry’s thought leaders, those debuting new and robust solutions, influencing the industry’s emerging topics and pulling the micro-trends together to form cutting–edge strategies for exclusive interviews and candid talks that span the world of payments....

Report: Consumers “Almost Never” Change Payment Types
September 12, 2013

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a working paper on June 20 that shed new light on essential consumer behaviors that have long remained mysteries in the payments industry. Namely, how loyal are consumers to their favorite payment instruments, and how often do they...

SDK Launch Takes LevelUp From Product To Platform
September 11, 2013

Since its 2011 launch, LevelUp has been a product, an app that consumers can download to make mobile payments at participating merchant locations and that merchants can use for payment processing. With the launch of LevelUp’s software development kit (SDK) on September 11, however, the...