PulseWallet is demonstrating a cardless point-of-sale solution at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas that uses of PalmSecure biometric technology by Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc. “For the first time the public will see how smoothly and efficiently the complete solution, integrated...
CardinalCommerce, which prides itself as being a pioneer and an innovator in consumer authentication, has various plans in store for customers this year, chief among them being a dashboard merchants can use to adjust their security protocols. The company is conducting a survey to gather...
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in 2014. We’ll update this list regularly, with funding dates, amounts, and quick company bios. Missing...
By Michael Patrick McSweeney (@mpmcsweeney) From a merchant’s perspective, business analytics can be useful for improving customer experiences, increasing operational efficiency and crafting long-term strategy. However, for some merchants, organizing all of this information can be cost-prohibitive or, at the very least, a daunting task...
Customers who use the Royal Bank of Canada’s iPad app can now send money to contacts through Facebook Messenger networks, Finextra reported on December 11. The P2P feature uses a person’s mobile phone number or email address to process the payment. Our social P2P solution...
“And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws,” ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are. The Target data breach is old news to most people by now, but the...
Facebook is being sued by an Arkansas lawyer and political blogger Matt Campbell for allegedly using data from private messages to improve the effectiveness of its advertising, Business Insider reported on January 2. Campbell filed the class-action lawsuit on December 30 in the U.S. Disctrict...
Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which companies grabbed the most headlines – for better or for worse – this week, and...
To paraphrase the immortal words of Yogi Berra, predictions are really hard, especially when they’re about the future. That’s why we’ve made it our annual tradition at PYMNTS.com to round up a few predictions across a range of topics that others have gone on record...
