Opinion

Large Merchants To Amazon: Like The Fox In The Henhouse
October 09, 2013

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Blackberry To ISIS’s Rescue
October 08, 2013

ISIS is working on an app for the Blackberry 10 operating system. When I saw this story on Friday the first thing I did was to check the date. I mean, could it really be right that ISIS is spending time developing applications for the...

Apple’s Mobile Commerce Mojo
October 04, 2013

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Commentary
Payments Breakthrough, Beachheads And Sinkholes
September 29, 2013

Last week was quite the exciting week in payments as several big players really put their money where their mouths were and made a few strategic plays. ACI grabbed Official Payments to bolster its position in online bill payment, and WorldPay snagged one of its...

MCX and the Giant Payments Networks: A Payments Fairy Tale
September 16, 2013

Once upon a time, there were four payments networks that ruled the land called Payments in the United States. They created rules and regulations that every merchant in the land had to abide by – and even imposed fees that those merchants had to pay...

PayPal Puts Another Nail In NFC With Beacon Launch
September 09, 2013

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How Mobile Changes What We Do Every Hour Of Every Day
August 25, 2013

I’ll bet you didn’t know that each year for the last 10, the U.S. government has been collecting data on how Americans spend their time each day. That agency isn’t the NSA (shame on all you cynics out there) but the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

The Six Things That Will Change the Future of Payments
August 18, 2013

Well, it’s that time of year … summer is (sadly) coming to a close, the kids are headed back to school and 2014 strategic planning sessions are kicking off. If you’re someone who is leading, contributing to or relying on the output of these sessions,...

“Fee Cap” And Those Other Three-Letter Words In Payments
August 04, 2013

“Fee Cap” consists of two three-letter words that strike fear into the hearts of any business executive in any industry. Seeing those words as connected to your business means only one thing – your profits are going to get trashed and you’ll need to figure...