In Depth

Controversial
800 Million iTunes Accounts … And Then What?
April 24, 2014

Payments news junkies were totally bummed by Apple’s first quarter earnings calls since not a peep was uttered about that topic. But, there was some light hinting about new products yet to come. And, maybe the biggest news of all is that the number of...

TSYS Drops Japan And Focuses On New Deals
April 24, 2014

Frustrated with Japan's centralized, primarily in-house card-issuing market, TSYS has decided to leave the country and focus its efforts on other business opportunities. In recent short order, the processor has landed a number of major deals, including with the UK's Virgin Money and a partnership...

Cool
What Can $698M Do To Innovate African Entrepreneurship?
April 24, 2014

The Carlyle Group is the first global private equity firm to close a fund that is focused entirely on building the middle class in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was inspired by the opportunity to completely transform the financial and economic opportunities in that region and obviously...

B2B Payments
How Digital and Data Will Transform Corporate Travel
April 24, 2014

Corporate travel planning and management can involve onerous tasks like compiling information for expense reports. But with new technologies and ways to use travel data, many companies are finding travel management and policy to be much more efficient. We spoke with Richard Crum, MasterCard’s Group...

Controversial
New Stats: eCommerce As A Share Of U.S. Retail Sales
April 23, 2014

Two recent reports from eMarketer shed new light on trends in U.S. overall retail sales and how eCommerce will affect overall volume through 2018. Will consumers continue to shun the malls for shopping online with mobile devices?

Hmmm
Charles Duhigg And Creating Rewards That Are Actually Rewarding
April 23, 2014

Pop Quiz, how many rewards program are you a member of right now? If your answer is in the family of “ummm, I don’t know, a lot?” then according to New York Times Reporter and best-selling author Charles Duhigg, those rewards programs are failing both...

Digital Currency Deep Dive: So What Makes Bitcoin So Special?
April 23, 2014

Remember the day when a coin was just a bothersome piece of metal that you were happy to toss in the tip jar to benefit the underpaid baristas at your local coffee shop? Well, the world has changed and so have coins. Economist David Evans...

B2B Payments
B2B Gateway to Simplify Secure B2B Communications
April 21, 2014

The debilitating disease that plagues many companies is the dreaded, ‘failure to communicate’ disorder. A new rollout from Fiorano Software, Fiorano B2B Gateway, was designed to help users securely transact business and enable real-time information exchange and avoid succumbing to a bout of the sickness.

Controversial
Why Israel is the Hot Bed for Payments Start-Ups
April 21, 2014

Israel, with its emerging tech scene embodied by the entrepreneurs of "Silicon Boulevard" in Tel Aviv, has gotten the world's attention as "Start-Up Nation." PYMNTS correspondent Andy Freedman is in Israel with a view as to just what makes this Start-Up Nation such a hot...