Victor Ho, the CEO of 3-year-old loyalty firm FiveStars, has become a veteran of the capital-raising game as he has built his firm to support more than 5,500 merchants and about 4 million cardholding shoppers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
North American Bancard CEO Marc Gardner is not a big fan of shopping at large national retailers, saying that he much prefers a local boutique where personalized customer service is a much higher priority. The problem is that when he looks at his PayPal mobile...
Construction spending in the U.S. construction fell in August, after a slight increase in July. The 0.8 percent decline was the second fall off in the last three months and weakness was spread across all three major sectors—residential, non-residential and government projects, reports The Associated Press....
Although B2B payments are often held up as lagging behind the times, Bob Dowd—Managing Director of Global E-Commerce for the Cambridge Mercantile Group—thinks critics tend to miss the tremendous strides the space has made over the last 5 years. Cambridge moves money around the world—with...
Existing payment schemes were created with the understanding that payments are going to be (and stay) domestic. That old school way of thinking doesn’t reflect today’s increasingly global business landscape. As an innovator in the B2B payments space, Serial Entrepreneur and founder of a stealthy...
The Apple Pay bandwagon will have to make room for one more as Capital One has rolled out a new mobile wallet app for cardholders that is Apple Pay compatible. The app is intended to offer users a clear look at their Apple Pay transactions, in addition to...
Alibaba and Tencent are engaged in a struggle to control the internet, both in China and possibly worldwide. Their latest battlefield will apparently be financial services, as each have won approvals from Chinese authorities to set up privately owned banks. Get the Full Story Complete...
Commerce is going universal. As online, mobile and physical shopping increasingly mesh together, merchants are seizing their chance to deliver a holistic customer experience via multiple channels and mobile devices. One way to go about this strategy is by taking advantage of hyper-local commerce, according...
The three months through September were still the busiest for IPOs in four years and would have been even if Alibaba had never set foot in the U.S. and gone public. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
