In setting out to create the 2015 U.K. Consumer Mobile Payment Study, TSYS was looking to provide valuable information to help its clients and other stakeholders navigate the current market trends for mobile payments (and related topics like mobile banking, communication and retailer apps)....
Oberthur Technologies (OT), the French security tech and smartcard maker, announced yesterday (Nov. 12) it has entered a multi-year contract with Costa Rica to provide secure national ID cards to its citizens. Oberthur’s Lasink solution, which utilizes state-of-the-art polycarbonate technology, will support laser-engraved identification cards...
Sometimes innovation in payments and commerce is pretty big, bold and obvious: moving from cash to plastic cards. Moving from plastic cards to mobile, and from shopping in physical stores to doing a lot of it online. And often those big shifts are the result of...
Think removing a sold-derogatory trade from a consumer’s credit file vastly improves their overall score? A new report from VantageScore suggests probably not. Sarah Davies, SVP of Product Management & Analytics at VantageScore Solutions, tells MPD CEO Karen Webster why removing a bad debt from...
Charged-off debts to third parties – sold-derogatory loans in credit speak – leave a huge black mark on the credit histories of consumers. But should they? VantageScore looked at 4.3 million consumers and said not so much.
MasterCard Labs’ first innovation event in Kenya has come away with some agricultural ideas. Having launched MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion — an initiative that MasterCard stated was designed to impact the lives of more than 100 million people around the world “by developing practical and...
We surveyed, we rated and we ranked – and now the results are in. This quarter’s edition of the PYMNTS OmniReadi IndexTM, powered by Vantiv, shows some real improvement in how merchants are optimizing the omnicommerce opportunity – and just in time for the holiday...
For mobile payments to adopt, it has to provide not only a great consumer experience, but one that is 10x better. That’s the view of Nick Nayfack, Director of Product: Mobile at Vantiv, who told MPD CEO Karen Webster, how he thinks mobile will get...
mPOS has hit a plateau. At least that how Verifone’s VP of Mobile Product Marcus Hodge, sees it. Hodges tells MPD CEO Karen Webster what four things mPOS solutions must include in order to hit its stride in enterprise retail.
