Payment Methods

B2B Payments
Leaving The Lost Paper Trail
December 11, 2015

Businesses of all sizes stand to benefit from T&E technology, but many companies, especially smaller ones, are still doing things the hard way -- manually, and with lost time and money following suit. That and other tidbits of information marked the latest annual survey of...

Samsung Pay’s Gift Card Platform Expands To 50 Merchants
December 11, 2015

Samsung Pay has found a niche in the mobile payments space that could help it get a bit more popular with merchants and consumers. It’s doing so by getting deeper into the gift card space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

International
The Clearing House/VocaLink Ink Real-Time Payments Deal
December 11, 2015

VocaLink, the international payments system company based in the United Kingdom, has signed a pact to develop a real-time payment service in the United States, working in tandem with The Clearing House (TCH). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Apple Pay
Apple’s (Continually) Blue Christmas
December 11, 2015

Generally speaking, the good news about a bad week is that things usually get better by comparison. The day after your car breaks down is, for the most part, better than the day before when it did, since although you may have lacked a working...

BlueSnap
The Cure For Mobile ‘Purchase Interruptus’
December 11, 2015

Merchants beware. There’s a new virus to worry about online. It’s mobile “purchase interruptus” and it’s potentially robbing merchants of 36 percent of their sales. MPD CEO Karen Webster and BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier chatted about how much of an epidemic this is, and more...

Europe
Journalism Payments Startup Blendle Approaches Launch
December 10, 2015

Blendle, a small publishing startup, has a dream to create a platform that makes it easy to pay for journalism online and — as a corollary — makes it easier for journalists to get paid online. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Merchant Innovation
XBox’s M-Pay Powered Virtual Mall
December 10, 2015

XBox, in the latest phase of its ongoing war with the outside world and people’s stubborn desire to go there, has launched a virtual shopping destination that will make it possible not only to browse for clothes from the comfort of your own couch, but...

News
Samsung Pay Gets Korean Mass Transit Support
December 10, 2015

On Tuesday (Dec. 8), millions of Korean commuters began using their Android phones to pay for their subway ride using Samsung Pay, Samsung Electronics announced. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

News
Behind Goldman’s Big Tech Pipeline Push
December 10, 2015

Goldman Sachs is seeking to boost its presence in virtual currency, among other areas of payments technology. Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Dec. 9) that the Wall Street behemoth had “applied to patent a virtual currency settlement system” known as SETLcoin. The patent filing is part...