When it comes to mPOS there are only three things that merchants want: business apps, business apps, and business apps. That’s what ROAM’s VP of Marketing and Solutions Scott Holt told MPD CEO Karen Webster that he’s hearing from his customers. Oh, and how they...
Banco del Bajío, a leading Mexican bank, announced Thursday (Oct. 9) that it has licensed TSYS’s PRIME 4 card management solution. Banco del Bajío will leverage PRIME issuing support to manage credit and private label card portfolios, as well as its loyalty and installment...
German payment card issuers are facing a major threat. They largely depend on Multilateral Interchange Fees – but currently, proposed interchange fee changes in the EU could shake up the nation’s financial ecosystem. In a recent podcast, Tom Stankiewicz, Director of Business Development at TSYS...
Smart, fast-moving, adaptable and flexible. No, we’re not talking about the latest payments innovator, we’re talking about the cybercrook. They’re finding new ways to wreak havoc with payments. But what if there was a way to fight the crooks’ intelligence with even more intelligence? On...
The recent shifts in the payments industry – Apple Pay, an independent PayPal, a publicly traded Alibaba – has forced everyone to think well beyond secure payment transacting to secure identity enablement. Marek Juda, Managing Director at Oberthur Technologies told MPD CEO Karen Webster what’s...
North American Bancard CEO Marc Gardner is not a big fan of shopping at large national retailers, saying that he much prefers a local boutique where personalized customer service is a much higher priority. The problem is that when he looks at his PayPal mobile...
“Cardholder data will become increasingly available to the fraud community – making it more difficult for issuing banks to identify the point of compromise, and easier for fraudsters to monetize that data they have with transactions that are reliant on card data alone,” says Nick...
Apple Pay has the potential to influence the direction of a lot of things in payments, and today, we’d like to add “omnichannel” to the list. While the tech giant is brand new to payments, its ability to mobilize an ecosystem is above all others....
The biggest surprise in August’s retail sales numbers was actually of no surprise to Sarah Quinlan, SVP of MasterCard’s Market Insights. Quinlan’s read of those tea leaves all along pointed to continued spending. Yet Quinlan told MPD CEO Karen Webster that she’s not as convinced...
