Sarah Quinlan, SVP Market Insights at MasterCard Advisors, gave MPD CEO Karen Webster a brand new scoop on Black Friday predictions, consumer expectations and what today really means for merchants.
What does Goldman Sachs see in Financeit? An opportunity to bring point of sale financing to the home improvement industry. Michael Garrity, Financeit’s Co-founder and CEO, takes MPD CEO Karen Webster inside the next payments opportunity ripe for disruption.
This week, while watching the drama that was Square’s IPO unfold, something occurred to the PYMNTS staff. Everything you need to know about Square’s story up until now you can learn this weekend by binge watching the Star Wars movies. Or at least the first five...
While revolutions and sudden disruptions get a lot of airplay in the commerce ecosystem, big changes rarely happen all that suddenly or act as total departures from what came before. The smartphone, particularly as conceived by Apple, has utterly changed the world as we know it,...
The curse of the “Uninnovatable Product:” that rare instance of a product that simply cannot be improved with innovation because there’s nothing to improve. It’s its own apotheosis and any change is probably a bad idea, even though it seems counterintuitive that in a world...
Ingenico, a French-based global payments provider, announced today (Nov. 12) that it is partnering with Aava Mobile to launch a merchant-specific tablet that will run on Intel technology and integrate both contactless payments and point of sale management features. “Our partnership with Ingenico Group and...
TSYS and TranSend, a provider of payments infrastructure software, announced yesterday (Nov. 10) that its RevChip EMV application is certified. TranSend’s RevChip product is tailored specifically to the U.S. market and is designed to remove the complications of EMV security certification for Value-Added Resellers (VARs), Integrated...
Life was famously compared to a box of chocolates 21 years ago on the grounds that one “never knows what they’re gonna get.” Which, as it turns out, is almost a perfectly good metaphor for the payments and commerce ecosystem, though perhaps with a minor caveat. ...
While retail executives are mostly background players, this week they’ve been oddly front and center. And two execs, in particular, made the rounds on social media and 24-hour cable news. Both probably wish they hadn’t. Taco Bell Corporate Manager Benjamin Golden started the week off...
