The Weekender

eCommerce
Making Every Site One-Click To Checkout
January 21, 2016

The “Amazon experience” one click checkout – is what every merchant aspires to deliver. Klarna’s North America CEO North America Brian Billingsley and Provenir MD Paul Thomas tell MPD CEO Karen Webster that starts with authenticating the consumer behind the scenes and integrating credit into...

The Big eCommerce Short
January 20, 2016

Shorting the stocks of online merchants whose volumes are exploding: unthinkable, right? Not to Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap, who explains to MPD CEO Karen Webster that some 40 percent of eCommerce merchants’ sales never convert — and the merchants aren’t even aware of it....

Point of Sale
Cayan To Retailers: Put Your POS In The Cloud
January 18, 2016

  It’s clearly not business as usual in the point-of-sale world. Not only are customers expecting easier, faster and more secure methods at checkout, but so are retailers. And that means that merchants must be more nimble, more mobile and able to more easily integrate...

The Science Of Fighting Fraud
January 13, 2016

  A psychologist, biologist, anthropologist and physicist walks into a high tech cybersecurity firm…. Seriously. Psychologists, biologists, anthropologists and physicists are among the six or seven profiles who fraud technology company, Forter CEO Michael Reitblat tells MPD CEO Karen Webster, make the most effective and...

Merchant Innovation
Optimizing The Paperless Trail
January 13, 2016

There’s more to going paperless than cost savings. Paperless, reinvented, can serve as a channel for brands to reach consumers in an entirely different (and captivating) way. Chuck Cordray, CEO of Inlet, joined MPD CEO Karen Webster to offer a glimpse into how digital delivery...

PYMNTS Weekender | Apple Pay Fraud
March 06, 2015

  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...

The Weekender: Innovation Inspiration
November 14, 2014

All innovation is inspired by something. Sometimes innovation is inspired by the opportunity to be part of something that has the potential to be big and transformative – the ability to think differently by using existing assets to create new ways for others to take...

The Weekender: Apple Pay Gets Launch Day
October 17, 2014

Well, you know what they say. An Apple Pay a day keeps the plastic cards at bay…and starting Monday, October 20th, that is, in fact, what Apple hopes will happen. We get some perspective from experts and agree to disagree about its impact. For our...

The Weekender: Enterprise Payments Gets Innovative Groove Going
October 10, 2014

This week the focus was all about enterprise payments - the part of payments ecosystem that is just getting its innovative groove on. There were many interesting conversations this week with innovators looking to transform an ecosystem that is so big, they defined it as...