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Omnicommerce: Driving Adoption Through Incentives
July 21, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image image=”153864″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”full”][vc_custom_heading text=”MOBILE COMMERCE BY THE NUMBERS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Oswald%3A300%2Cregular%2C700″][vc_separator color=”grey” align=”align_center” style=”” border_width=”” el_width=””][vc_single_image image=”153866″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css_animation=””] Source: Mobile Ecosystem Forum: Global Mobile Money Report, 2015 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=””]...

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The Cost (and Complications) of Omnichannel Loyalty
July 20, 2015

Is the (loyalty) juice worth the squeeze? That’s how consumers are sizing up the loyalty benefits offered by retailers – benefits they expect to “wow” them across every channel they use. So, how far are merchants willing to bend their business models in pursuit of...

The Bitcoin Link Between Greece And Latin America
July 17, 2015

What do Greece and Latin America have in common? They keep showing up in headlines about bitcoin. In fact, an International Business Times article yesterday titled “What Greece can learn from bitcoin adoption in Latin America” digs into the question that many have been asking for weeks: Can bitcoin help...

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Apple Pay In The UK
July 17, 2015

Coming out of the All-Star game last weekend, it is surprising that the curveball of the week didn’t come out of baseball. In fact, it didn’t even get pitched in the United States. No, this week in an epic fit of Apple being Apple, Cupertino...

Company Spotlight
Making Sense of Data’s Deluge
July 15, 2015

Making sense of the ton of data out there is both an art and a science. Payments execs need the right analytics tools (science) to confidently interpret multiple data streams to pinpoint key consumer behaviors (art). MPD’s CEO Karen Webster sat down with Fred Grigsby...

Kabbage, Cooperation And Why We Can All Be Friends
July 14, 2015

As any Boston Red Sox fan knows, a good rivalry can really spice up the action. After thinking for 86 years that there could be nothing on Earth better than breaking the streak by winning the World Series, in 2004 the entire city of Boston...

Bitcoin – “It’s Like Punk Rock”
July 10, 2015

Up until recently, if you typed “Greece” and “bitcoin” into Google, you would not get much in return. It’s amazing what a Greek debt crisis will do for search results. Last week, PYMNTS’ Bitcoin Tracker explored how the crisis had given bitcoin a boost — as prices...

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SlimPay Grabs $16.6M To Make Recurring Payments Easy In Europe
July 08, 2015

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css_animation=””]Like most modern wonders, the magic of automatic billing is something that is easy to overlook – probably because no one really likes thinking about paying bills as there are many, many more interesting ways to spend money. Which is...

The Greek Debt Crisis And Bitcoin
July 03, 2015

Is bitcoin the way to avert Greek’s debt crisis? Well, if you simply look at the price of bitcoin – which has been rising in lockstep with the intensity of the crisis – you might be tempted to say yes.   Since late last week, bitcoin...