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Embracing New Payment Tech Worries Retailers
August 23, 2016

Trying to meet the high expectations of today’s consumers by introducing new payment technology can be a daunting task. Vaughan Rowsell, founder and chief product officer for Vend, says many retailers are grappling with this issue and worry that the undertaking of providing omnicommerce opportunities...

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Know Your Customer Redux
August 23, 2016

Know Your Customer takes on a very different meaning at WePay. Kurt Bilafer, WePay Global Vice President, talks about how KYC is the only way to move a payments relationship past just the transaction.

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Have Millennials Sworn Off Credit Cards?
August 23, 2016

If the latest data from The New York Fed is correct, credit card use has been exploding in the United States of late — a fact that is notable in and of itself given the multi-year hiatus from credit card debt many Americans took (voluntarily or otherwise)...

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Behind the Tech Stock Resurgence, Warning Bells … Or Not
August 22, 2016

Could tech stocks be hijacking the U.S. stock market? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...

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For Payments Stocks, Some Small Gains, Bigger Decliners
August 22, 2016

Not much movement on the winners this week, but some relatively outsized swings on the declining side of the payments stock index made for some decidedly lopsided performance among the names we track. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Bridging The Great Payments Digital/Physical Divide
August 22, 2016

Cash may still be king on the receiver side when it comes to cross-border remittances, but that’s changing. In Friday’s episode of Topic TBD, Karen Webster and MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes chatted about how a dominant physical player in the space is navigating the need...

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Tune In To Payments Reality Check!
August 22, 2016

“Reality Check” was a TV show that aired in 1995 about a couple of kids who moved into a house and found a computer that was left behind by the previous owner. These kids – Samantha and Nick – soon discovered that the computer was...

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The Unicorn Shoe (Wing) Drooping Towards Dropping?
August 18, 2016

The worries over valuations tied to unicorns, by now universally defined as the tech firms with implied valuations above $1 billion, have ebbed and flowed, depending on what time of the quarter or even the day it might be. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Recurly Launches Recurly Analytics To Help Businesses Optimize Revenue
August 17, 2016

Recurly, the subscription management platform, announced on Wednesday (Aug. 16) the immediate availability of Recurly Analytics, a new capability that surfaces data-driven insights for informed decision-making and revenue optimization. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...