Payments people love to talk about rails — whose rails are the fastest, cheapest, most secure, most accepted, most compliant. Consumers, not so much. In fact, as Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards pointed out to Karen Webster in the most recent edition of their “how...
With 2020 rushing toward us, a new decade means its time to take stock of where we are and where we’re headed in financial services. Charles E. "Chuck" Fagan, CEO of PSCU, tells Karen Webster the state of the credit union is strong — but to keep...
Consumers live in a real-time world. Their use of mobile devices fuels the expectation that what happens on the other side of a click or a swipe will be delivered in real time — or as close to it as possible. That expectation increasingly extends...
Millennials are on the move, professionally. And in an age where apartment rents are rising faster than incomes, shared housing proves salvation – unless they choose the wrong roommate. As Ajay Yadav, CEO of Roomi tells PYMNTS’ Karen Webster via Topic TBD, the firm has...
Vending machines: You put in your couple of bucks, you get a bag of pretzels; end of customer/brand transaction — right? Not anymore. Mike Lawlor, chief services officer at USA Technologies, tells Karen Webster how your father’s vending machine has evolved to become a next-generation...
Subscriptions have come a long way from book-of-the-month clubs and magazines. Today, they are the hottest payments model to hit the retail and enterprise market. BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier tells Karen Webster about how their work with Autodesk has given rise to a whole new...
It happened in retail, and now it’s happening in banking: technology is effectively “democratizing” the industry, putting companies of all sizes on equal ground in terms of their opportunities to serve customers. Richard Steggall, Co-Founder and CEO of Urban FT, shares his perspective with MPD...
What could possibly get in the way of a sale once a consumer has loaded up her virtual shopping cart and hit “buy?” At that point, the promise of a sale should be more or less like the set-it-and-forget-it RonCo oven of online retail –...
While “the dress” made its rounds on social media for its changing colors, the fraudsters made their own rounds – this time visiting the iTunes stores, Apple Pay and Apple, the retailer itself – in colors that no one could possibly see. This week...
