“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...
Name: The Consumer Headquarters: N/A Founded: N/A Employees: N/A Market Capitalization: N/A Key Stats: 1. 7.1 billion Number of consumers, with one added every eight seconds 2. 7.3 billion Number of active global mobile phones expected by 2014 3. 13.6 billion Number of payment cards...
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...
Russell Simmons will be back at Innovation Project 2014 but with a new twist with a spotlight on international companies trying to claim their stake in the U.S. payments and commerce markets. Our international innovators have a just few minutes to give Simmons an overview...
Developing Your Payments Sixth Sense Psychologists have recently acknowledged that something commonly referred to as “the sixth sense” really does exist. Some attribute these strong hunches or “feelings” about what might happen in the future to people being uniquely in synch with the Earth’s magnetic...
Like the vast majority of U.S. consumers, Asian-American shoppers split their purchases between value-oriented and premium items, visit a diverse selection of shops and seek out deals – both online and offline – when possible. However, new data from Nielsen suggests that Asian-Americans are different...
The consumer shopping experience is changing as quickly as smartphones, loyalty apps and access to mobile payments platforms are being put in their hands. As Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster pointed out in a recent commentary piece, shoppers have also become more thoughtful in...
For any of you who might still question my assertion that traditional advertising and loyalty businesses will soon be pushing up daisies, Nielsen’s recent report on how consumers buy will, without a doubt, convince you that I’m on to something. Nielsen has access to scanner...
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...