In Depth

Bitcoin Strikes For The Gold Standard
February 13, 2015

When people say someone is as “rich as Croesus,” they’re talking of to a time (B.C. time) when gold was first starting to be used as a currency. A time when Croesus of Mermnadae, the last King of Lydia, had accumulated an ungodly amount of gold...

How To Be A Top Scorer In The Payments Innovation Index
February 12, 2015

Pii360 – The Payments Innovation Index – is a proprietary index that accurately measures what more than 100 companies across 10 segments in payments have done to innovate and how experts in payments view the success of these companies in bringing those innovations to market....

LendUp’s Hand-Up For The Financially Underserved
February 12, 2015

There is currently enough snow on the ground in the greater Boston area to fill Foxboro stadium over 90 times, with another 2-4 feet being predicted by Monday (Feb. 16). Given the fact that global warming seems to have abandoned New England, payments innovators may...

WePay’s Cross-Border Payments Strategy
February 12, 2015

When Google tapped WePay to tackle its mobile-commerce payments problem, it didn’t just give merchants an easy way to use its two-tap instant Buy system, it helped gave them an easy way to do business cross-border and gave birth to an interesting partnership. Get the...

Rubikloud Wants To Make Big Data Useful And Easy At The Same Time
February 11, 2015

What do professional baseball, Google, political forecasting and retail all have in common? A love of big data. Whether that comes in the form of Billy Beane harnessing its power to build a better baseball team, Nate Silver taking all the fun out of the...

The Changing Face Of Turkish Commerce
February 11, 2015

When most people think of commerce and Turkey, the first image that jumps to mind is probably of Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar (pictured below). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

At The Intersection Of Disruption And Innovation
February 11, 2015

This past summer, PYMNTS.com CEO Karen Webster explored the idea of innovation and what it means to be disruptive. As Webster noted, the term has become part of our everyday vocabulary to describe the products and services that help make our lives easier. But it’s...

The Cure For The Not-So Common Coupon
February 10, 2015

Coupons have become game changers in India. 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, you agree...

In-Store Retail’s Slow Start To 2015
February 10, 2015

Googling the phrase “the fate of physical retail,” will not tell one much about the fate of physical retail – though it will give one a fairly good insight into what the chatterati were all in agreement about vis a vis retail at any given...