Opinion

The Most Frequently Asked Question About Mobile Payments
June 08, 2015

“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...

Why Android Pay Isn’t Really About Payments At All
June 01, 2015

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...

The CFPB, PrePaid Cards And Protecting Consumers To Death
May 26, 2015

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...

The “Why” Behind Google Buy
May 18, 2015

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...

Can Payments Save Internet Ad Giants?
May 11, 2015

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 Four Fatal Flaws And What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Them
May 04, 2015

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....

Who Won’t Win The Mobile Wallet “Wars” And Why
April 27, 2015

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...

Karen Webster
Why Square’s Greatest Ambition Has Become Its Biggest Threat
April 20, 2015

“Dorsey is the only guy in the industry who’s thinking about payments in a deep way, and Square is the only payments company that’s innovating on hardware, software, and price. Now, as we approach the launch of the Starbucks collaboration, I think we’ll see this...

Could Amazon Do To Groceries What It Did to Books?
April 06, 2015

Amazon’s launch of Dash might be the best look we’ve had so far into how Amazon thinks about omnichannel. 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...