“If only Apple weren’t so secretive, if only we knew what their intentions were toward mobile commerce,” said every payments player everywhere at some point ever. Bad news: the team at PYMNTS cannot read Apple’s mind. Good news: PYMNTS can do the next best thing--read...
Amazon has removed a lot of the friction associated with shopping on and offline: easy checkout, fast delivery, massive product inventory. Yet Safwan Zaheer, a global product and strategy exec for a top global bank, said retailers can harness the power of digital to enable...
We have seen a lot of interesting announcements of late, with more expected to come. HCE is providing a path to include NFC in cloud based services; PayPal launched drag and drop integration, and One Touch experience; key hires point to a new wave of...
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Although some public retail companies this week reported better second-quarter same-store results than others, for varying reasons, the mood among the merchants’ executives was good. Helping drive those feelings are positive economic signs from July that have continued into August, while some, such as Target,...
In June, Federal Reserve Financial Services hosted a series of town hall meetings to discuss a variety of initiatives designed to improve B2B transactions, along with P2Ppayments. Among the goals include speeding up transactions, improving efficiency, enhancing payment safety and security, improving cross-border payments, and...
The business travel itinerary is no longer limited to the already developed world, and while European and American markets are still growing, B2B travel in BRIC countries is growing faster. According to a recent report released in August 2014 from Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) and...
There’s no question that virtual currencies such as Bitcoin have traditional payments regulators upset, given the relative transaction anonymity they bring to the table. Moreover, they continue to be a risky venture for consumers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau noted earlier this week, the first...
Square, which was just the subject of a less-than-glowing story in FastCompany, published a blog post about the Top 10 negative myths about its service on Thursday (Aug. 14). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
