In Depth

Why Global Financial Inclusion Programs Fail
November 18, 2014

For well over a decade, players across the payments space and all around the world have been trying to crack the code on delivering mobile financial services to the un-and-underbanked consumer. And despite many great ideas and the urgent need to move those without bank...

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A New Approach To Gift Card Bulk Purchasing
November 18, 2014

InComm on Monday (Nov. 17) unveiled a B2B E-commerce store for purchasing multi-brand physical and digital gift cards in bulk, including prepaid debit cards. The twist is that the site, called InComm Incentives, promises “timely tracking” that sees where orders are in the fulfillment process....

B2B Payments
Mass Payments And The Global Marketplace
November 18, 2014

Managing the “dozens of ACH islands” that exist around the worldwide in order to pay hundreds or even thousands of payments to suppliers is typically time consuming and expensive. But that’s exactly the problem that Chen Amit, set out to solve four years ago when...

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More Than Half Of B2B Purchases To Happen Online By 2017
November 16, 2014

Fifty-two percent of business buyers expect at least half of their purchases to be made online in three years, said a new study released from Accenture and Forrester. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

B2B Payments
Lyft’s Employee Expense Account Plan
November 16, 2014

Considering how much time employees spending filling out expense reports and then how much accounts payable spend in processing those reports—let’s not even mention the time various managers spend approving these expense reports–, the question crops up periodically whether companies could save money and boost...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay By The Numbers: Volume 4
November 14, 2014

Been a tougher than normal week for Apple, as some news about a Chinese malware called “Wirelurker” snagged headlines and gave the world a glimpse into the future of iOS security concerns, a future that could be called “Masque Attack.”  Also Apple Pay’s competition seemed...

To Go Where No Acquirers Have Gone Before
November 14, 2014

When is the sum of the parts in payments greater than the whole? 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....

Alternative Finances
Bitcoin Wants To Get Under Your Skin
November 14, 2014

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B2B Payments
Amazon Web Services Tout B2B Exchange Help With Lambda
November 14, 2014

Amazon Web Services rolled out on Thursday (Nov. 13) a compute service that runs developers’ code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for them, one that the company dubbed AWS Lambda. But one of the companies Amazon chose to highlight is...