04 March 2014 Irish Airline Ryanair is collaborating with PayPal Ireland to help advance sales. Their goal is to enable Ryanair customers to buy flight tickets using PayPal’s smartphone software. As a member of Ryanair’s board, Louise Phelan, PayPal vice president of global operations for...
04 March 2014 Users of a new Google Chrome plugin called Zinc Save can make easy purchases on Amazon via their Dwolla account. Zinc Save works by syncing a consumer’s Dwolla account with Amazon when they log in after downloading the plugin. This process facilitates...
04 March 2014 Home Depot has appointed a new U.S. retail president in a bid to expand and enhance the company’s Web profile. Craig Menear, who previously served as Home Depot’s Southwest division manager, first joined the company in 1997. His last position was head...
04 March 2014 MasterCard has announced that it has expanded to seven new markets in Africa. The development raises the number of African markets that accept MasterCard to 48, the company said in a March 4 press release. MasterCard products and services are now accepted in...
04 March 2014 A new study from the Yankee Group has poured some cold water on mobile payments adoption. Only 16 percent of smartphone owners have used their device to make a payment in-store, the study found. Of those, 73 percent use them five times...
04 March 2014 One of Citigroup’s banking affiliates, Banamex USA, is being hit by twin inquires related to fraud and money-laundering regulation compliance. Banamex, which provides banking services to communities in the United States and Mexico, recently revealed in SEC filings that it had been...
04 March 2014 Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in 2014. We’ll update this list regularly, with funding dates, amounts, and quick...
04 March 2014 Online payment fraud resulted in billions of dollars in losses last year. Stopping fraud without impacting the experience for trusted customers is critical for organizations where any fraud prevention measure that adds to customer friction is a non-starter. Attend this webinar to...
A new ad from American Express premiered Sunday night, featuring the issuer’s new spokeswoman: Tina Fey. Seems a good fit for a card designed for the multi-tasker, given her personal life as an actress, author and comedy writer, not to mention she’s also a mother....
