Boston-based LevelUp has officially taken its iBeacon pilots out of stealth and is now running full tilt with this new technology. But today’s announcement is just the beginning of LevelUp’s plans to enhance the consumer experience and give merchants new options for serving them. PYMNTS...
BetterDoctor.com recently added new functions to its year-old mobile health care app, including the ability to use Medicare data to compare specialists and to see which doctors get referred by other physicians most often. Though payments is not yet a function of his app, company...
Payments industry veteran Steve Pellizzer has joined WePay as the company’s new CFO. Pellizzer spoke to MPD CEO Karen Webster about his 12 years in the business and how that’s prepared him to manage the evolving needs of WePay’s dynamic customer segments.
Many businesses are working to find a comprehensive solution to the health care payments system, ensuring that all parties are satisfied and given payment options that suit their needs. Yesterday, WEX, Inc. took a major step forward in accomplishing that goal with a key acquisition.
When it comes to saving for retirement, millions of Americans do not have a plan. And the Treasury Department wants to do something about that. In this latest edition of PYMNTS Voice of the Treasury Series, Assistant Secretary Richard Gregg explains how the government’s myRA...
It is not uncommon for businesses to evolve in order to stay successful, especially those involved in B2B commerce. However, executives from ShopVisible and 3M think that the key to successfully evolve in this digital world is to take a page out of the B2C...
Payments terms as long as 160 days? Don’t laugh. It’s what some suppliers in the events sector are being asked to accommodate, basically becoming lenders for those who don’t want to mess up their own cash flow. Is this a trend that could soon become...
Mobile banking is now under the CFPB’s spotlight in order to assure that access to mobile financial services is being applied equally in all sectors of the population. Independent of that action, a House committee has introduced several bills that would limit the CFPB’s powers...
Some pretty big stuff got the payments industry talking this week. PayPal’s President moves to Facebook, World Cup revelers can’t get Brazilian currency and a mobile payments innovator claims HCE isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. That was just Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!...
