Payment Methods

India M-Wallet Streamlines Bank Transfers
March 16, 2015

One97’s mobile wallet payment service Paytm, an India-based and Alibaba-backed service, has launched a feature in its mobile wallet that will allows its customers a more streamlined bank transfer process. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Balanced Shuts Down, Hands Customers To Stripe
March 16, 2015

Balanced is shutting down. The peer-to-peer marketplace payments platform announced on Friday (March 13) that it will stop taking payments on June 11, and has selected Stripe for customers who want to migrate to a new payments service with a minimum of hassle. Get the...

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Green Dot/Walmart Deal To End Soon
March 13, 2015

Green Dot might lose its contract with Walmart, which is causing a lot of buzz regarding the future of the company’s namesake prepaid card. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Report: 80 Percent Of Companies Fail Payment Data Security Tests
March 13, 2015

According to a report put out by Verizon Communications, four-fifths of companies fail interim compliance assessments for payment card data security. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

MasterCard On Barcelona’s Biggest Themes
March 13, 2015

This year’s Mobile World Congress may have ended a week ago, but post-conference conversations on where mobile’s going next abound. Following exciting, game-changing announcements made by MasterCard and other key players in the space, MPD CEO Karen Webster sat down with Jorn Lambert, Group Executive...

Walmart, Visa Deal Streamlines Prepaid Reloads
March 13, 2015

Walmart’s list of low-cost ways to pay for prepaid cardholders just got bigger with an option from Visa’s prepaid card portfolio. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Merchant Innovation
Donahoe: EBay Must Continue To Disrupt Itself
March 13, 2015

Outgoing eBay CEO John Donahoe won’t be running the company after it splits off PayPal later this year, but that change is characteristic of what he sees coming for both e-commerce and payments: They’re blurring and splitting apart, Donahoe said in an interview for PwC’s...

GameStop Now Accepting Apple Pay (And Buying Other Stores’ Gift Cards)
March 12, 2015

Mobile payments the Apple way got a boost on its continuous if somewhat slow march to wide retailer acceptance with the announcement earlier this week that GameStop will be accepting Apple Pay.  The video game and entertainment retailer joined the Marriott hotel chain and crowdfunding...

How FIs Go From ‘Top-Of-Wallet’ To ‘Front-Of-Phone’
March 12, 2015

When it comes to getting consumers to use their cards on mobile devices, FIs need to find new ways to stay relevant in a highly competitive space. Card apps therefore need to offer more than just an on-off functionality, says Angel Siorek, VP of Channel...