Back on January 1, we brought you eight predictions for 2013 from around the payments industry, and had our own expert, MPD CEO Karen Webster, break them down. Now that we’re past the half-way point of 2013, Webster revists her predictions with the past six...
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As it turns out, astronauts and astro-tourists need payments love too. That’s at least the point of view of PayPal, the SETI Institute (a non-profit that is dedicated to exploring “the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe,” and Space Tourism Society – and...
Let’s start the first week of summer by turning the discussion of cash as a viable payment method on its head. Here’s the many-multi-trillion dollar question up for grabs: if cash remains alive and kicking as a payment method over the next decade, then how...
My, how time flies when you are having fun in the digital wallet space! 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...
Let’s face it, the only news that broke last week when Business Week published its story about Google Wallet was that it had been downloaded around 10 million times since its launch two years ago. Frankly, that was about 9,950,000 more times than I actually...
I had a chance to catch up with Mike Passilla yesterday, the newly announced CEO of Merchant Services at Chase and former CEO of Elavon. Mike did an interview a couple of years back with a publication in Atlanta that did an executive profile on...
Really and truly solving the B2B payments’ problem over the years has been a little bit like proving Fermat’s last theorem – lots and lots have tried and a few have even gotten pretty close. But no one has been able to enter the market...
I walked to my little local market this morning in Boston and saw the latest issue of Barron’s on the newsstand. The cover story is all about U.S. Millennials: those 18- to 37-year-olds who, according to this article, are the future of the U.S. economy...
