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...
Historically, banks have gotten a bad rap for being slow to innovate, and those who attempt to do so often find themselves struggling to keep up with new, tech-based alternatives that threaten their business and their business model. In some ways, the bad rap...
Ten years ago, the three national credit bureaus got together to start a challenger to credit scoring’s dominant player. Out of that, VantageScore was born, and its new scoring model eventually gave 30 million-35 million consumers a score and access to credit. VantageScore President and...
The Apple v. DOJ battle has made encryption a household word. But what’s the right conversation to be having about keeping consumer and payments data secure and private? Michael Reitblat, founder and CEO of Forter, and Shaunt Sarkissian, founder and CEO of Cortex MCP, joined...
As long-gestating technologies are beginning to gain traction and present a clearer picture of the payments landscape, Bill Lodes, SVP Business Development & Strategy at First American Payment Systems, shares with MPD CEO Karen Webster the unique role that independent software providers (ISVs) will play...
Turning browsers into buyers has a lot to do with capturing consumers at the right time, in the right context and at the point they are ready to convert. Getting from point A to point B, of course, isn’t always an easy feat. It’s also...
Headlines herald a sea change in payments as traditional lenders link with tech-savvy startups. For FinTech CEO Max Eliscu, the founder of both LSQ Funding Group and Viewpost, the news is not news at all. He has been bringing innovative B2B technology to banks and...
Advancements in technology often mean the end of payment gateways. But USAePay, which has been around since 1998, stands as an example of how companies in the space can thrive by adopting innovations in the realms of omnichannel and security. CEO Ben Goretsky shares his...
