A Harris poll has found that barely 5 percent of adult shoppers (they didn’t examine younger than 18-year-old behavior) have made a purchase on social networks. This is the context of Twitter preparing a major push for social shopping via its Buy Button. Get the...
What has paralyzed progress in the U.S. on the global standard for financial messaging, ISO 20022? In a word: risk. Across Europe, 20 financial organizations have already gone live with payments messaging services that meet the standard, thanks largely to the E.U.’s Single Euro Payments...
A mobile app is attempting to attempting to solve the classic business-trying-to-find-contractor problem, through what it dubs “a selective vetting process” of those contractors. But it’s unclear from its site what kind of vetting process it offers and how it evaluates the talent it tries...
Among the lingering side-effects of the financial meltdown has been a seemingly permanent shift in the consumer credit market and a customer base that is slightly more hesitant around credit products. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
What a payment represents in 2020 will be much different from it does today, as it will represent much more than just the settlement of a transaction or the movement of funds. In fact, the market transformation has already begun, new research results suggest. Get...
The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta applaud the many efforts to standardize payment tokenization, except the part that there are in fact so many such efforts. The potential for confusion and, much worse, standards conflicts undermining token efforts—especially in mobile—is a great concern...
Whatever else can be said about the payments ecosystem, there are a lot of numbers flying through the atmosphere and it can be hard to keep up. So PYMNTS is keeping on your behalf. From the very big, to the very small, from the ridiculous...
Everyone wants things to be simpler – especially when it comes to payments. Karla Freide CEO/Founder of NVoicePay, believes in solutions that start with giving customers control of their payments in a simple workflow process. Karla sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to explain...
Just a few weeks ago we thought that a $500 bitcoin floor was the bottom of the barrel, but bitcoin has dipped even further, reaching a new low, down in the 400’s. This week bitcoin took a long fall down to $410.61 from $450.68.
