Card-linked offers have been singularly unimpressive as a category. They’ve been around for years and raised a ton of capital, but have failed to turn the heads of merchants or consumers. MPD CEO Karen Webster says that two things could change that – mobile phones...
Apple and Google Android have just recast mobile wallets as smartphone utilities – putting them in the same category as cameras, maps, weather, the app store and any other app that comes preloaded on their smartphones. Not every mobile wallet, of course, just theirs.
“Are we there yet,” though, is shorthand for “When will all of the time and money and investments we’ve made in mobile payments actually pay off?” The person most likely to pose that question is the CEO who’s been hearing “20xx is the year mobile...
To no one’s great surprise, we added another “Pay” player to payments last week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
So here’s a question. When is a prepaid card actually a credit card? Here’s an answer: When the CFPB says so. The CFPB recently released nearly 900 pages of proposed rule changes for prepaid products which would reclassify some prepaid products as credit products. That...
Remember the piece I wrote last week about whether payments can save the Internet ad giants? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...
What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Google and Yelp have in common with goldfish? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...
MCX’s Interim CEO, Brian Mooney, starts his first day on the job today. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....
Blame it on the promotional run-up to the December 2015 release of Star Wars Episode 7, but the subject of the mobile wallet “wars” seems back in the news. And like all wars – intergalactic or otherwise – there’s no shortage of opinions about who’ll...
