Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
How Technology Is Leveling The Playing Field In Banking
April 06, 2016

It happened in retail, and now it’s happening in banking: technology is effectively “democratizing” the industry, putting companies of all sizes on equal ground in terms of their opportunities to serve customers. Richard Steggall, Co-Founder and CEO of Urban FT, shares his perspective with MPD...

The Force Behind Connected Commerce
March 23, 2016

“Car 54 Where Are You?” meets payments. Yep, the talking police patrol car that was the star of 60’s TV is looking less like a hokey comedy and more like the inspiration for many a payments innovator with visions of voice activated apps under the...

Payments Innovation
Payments Integration Without The Friction
March 23, 2016

Can payments integration — in an environment of expanding channels and payments methods — be both easy and fast? Daniela Mielke, Vantiv’s chief strategy and product officer, told PYMNTS that it can, provided that it also doesn’t mean developers first must become payments experts. Mielke...

Meter Feeder Lets Consumers Pay Via GPS
March 21, 2016

Who has time to pay for parking meters? Clunky change, dipping cards, pressing buttons — no thank you. The drivers of the future are paying for their meters — how else? — with an app. According to a recent article by TechCrunch, Meter Feeder is a mobile app that...

Payments Innovation
D+H And The Clearing House Are Teaming Up To Take On Real-Time Payments
March 18, 2016

Tech firm DH Corporation and The Clearing House will be partnering to provide real-time payment options in the United States for financial services firms. Going forward, partner financial institutions will be able to leverage D+H’s core, payments and channel applications as an access point for...

The Oracle At The Intersection
March 16, 2016

This week is a big week for PYMNTS.com as they will play host to their annual Innovation Project. It is an annual pilgrimage I look forward to every year. I have had the great privilege of serving as an IP judge for the last three...

Payments Innovation
Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail
March 14, 2016

Pay attention now because this is going to be absolutely, positively revolutionary. And it’s going to shake the payments industry by its ankles. What is it you ask? Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering...

A Guided Tour Of Payments In Latin America
March 11, 2016

Cash is still king. Installment payments rule. Fraud is hard to spot. Online and mobile rule. That’s the lay of the payments land in Latin America. Martin Schrimpff, Co-Founder of PayU and MPD CEO Karen Webster recently took PYMNTS peeps on a fascinating tour of...

YellowPepper’s Quest To Digitize Payments In LatAm
March 11, 2016

Prior to his company’s appearance at Innovation Project, Serge Elkiner, Cofounder and CEO of YellowPepper, spoke with PYMNTS about the 10-year journey of bringing mobile payments to Latin America, the additional payment solutions that YellowPepper is now putting into place in the region and how...