Payment Methods

Social Financial Platform Connects Corporate Rebates With Communities
February 20, 2015

Enacomm Inc., a customer-service company specializing in prepaid debit and cash card maintenance, has been selected to host a customer self-service solution for PayForward, a social finance platform that allows members to turn corporate rebates into funding community and personal causes, according to a Feb....

Mobile Commerce
Can Google Ignite An mWallet, Compete With Apple Pay and Herd Cats?
February 20, 2015

Google has high hopes for its mobile wallet and two big challenges.  One is the lurking 800 pound gorilla that is Apple Pay, and the other involves the complexities of herding cats. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

International
China’s Massive Red Envelope Mobile Scheme
February 20, 2015

While Westerners celebrated the New Year in early January and are now a month and a half in to failing to live up to their various resolutions, the Chinese are just getting started. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

How Unattended Retail Doubled Apple Pay’s Merchant Footprint
February 20, 2015

When Tim Cook announced at Apple's last earnings that Apple Pay was being accepted at 200k new merchant locations, no one focused on the fact that those merchant locations were part of the retail’s big blue ocean: unattended retail. Stephen Herbert, Chairman and CEO at...

Visa Checkout Coming To 16 Global Markets
February 20, 2015

Visa is extending its reach in the online payments space through the addition of Visa Checkout to 16 markets across the globe in 2015. Customers in 10 countries can now sign up for Visa Checkout, but Visa announced yesterday (Feb. 19) that an additional six markets...

Payment Card-Stealing Malware Creator Pleads Guilty
February 20, 2015

The Swedish mastermind behind malicious software that was used to steal payment card data and passwords from thousands of computers pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday (Feb. 18), Bloomberg News reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Loyalty & Rewards
Judge Says AmEx Is Anti-Competitive
February 20, 2015

American Express can’t prevent merchants from suggesting that customers use a less-expensive payment card, a federal judge ruled on Thursday (Feb. 19). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Boston’s Billion-Dollar Blizzard
February 19, 2015

If someone from Boston tells you that a year’s winter is the worst he’s ever seen, listen to him, because he’s seen (and shoveled) a lot of them — and that’s the way the winter of 2015 is getting described thanks to nearly 7 feet...

Google Bags Kenyan Payments Scheme
February 19, 2015

Google announced on Feb. 16 that it will be terminating its Kenyan cashless payment program BebaPay on March 15, in a move that is being described as a quiet retreat from the payments space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...