The Fed’s new mobile survey data contains a treasure trove of information on how mobile payments and digital wallets are doing. To guide us through the mass of data MPD CEO Karen Webster relies on a well-known and highly rigorous statistical technique to ferret out...
FastCare, a Miami-based urgent care center, announced March 27 that it is now accepting more forms of payment, including credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. The change reportedly is designed to add greater convenience for users of the company’s service.
Use of mobile devices instead of cards to facilitate point-of-sale transaction is a goal that continues to challenge industry players seeking to make it happen. An upcoming TSYS white paper will examine the issues affecting mobile wallets and what the industry must do to address...
Global Payout on March 27 signed an agreement with motorcycle courier supporter ABRATRAM to provide customized payment solutions combined with cash-management options and member benefits.
Have you heard? 2014 is the year mobile payments is going to take off. Gartner thinks so, ABI predicts a strong year, and even Bain & Co. thinks the mobile-payments explosion is just over the horizon. Unfortunately, it seems consumers haven’t yet gotten the...
China appears embedded in a competitive battle between state-run banks and such large Internet companies as Alibaba over control of the nation’s mobile-payments market. Regulators there appear to be moving in the banks’ favor. Not so, apparently, is the case in New Zealand, where new...
The payments and banking industries are making progress in getting more U.S. consumers to use their mobile devices to access bank and card-account information, a new Federal Reserve Board of Governors report released March 25 shows. As of December last year, 33 percent of all...
Over the past week, the IRS deemed bitcoins taxable property, giving critics even more ammo to blast what Warren Buffet has dubbed “a mirage” and a man that Andreessen sort of slighted this week for his criticism of the cryptocurrency. That said, a small gun...
NACHA’s April 6 – 9 PAYMENTS 2014 will feature more than 130 educational sessions and plenty of networking opportunities specifically geared toward payments executives and professionals. Find out more here and make plans to attend.
