Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Virtual Payments Processing Platform Goes Live
April 12, 2016

Commercial payments technology provider AOC Solutions announced the launch of its new processing platform for virtual payments on Monday (April 11). The platform, called Transact Global, provides a cloud-based infrastructure that aims to help solve the challenges facing multinational middle- and large-market entities within the...

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SMBs, Girding For Bumps In The Night
April 08, 2016

Small business owners must navigate between the old ways of doing things and embracing technological change, a dance that is never simple or comfortable. But it’s necessary, as MPD’s Karen Webster and Sage Payments’ CEO Paul Bridgewater agreed.

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How Technology Is Leveling The Playing Field In Banking
April 06, 2016

It happened in retail, and now it’s happening in banking: technology is effectively “democratizing” the industry, putting companies of all sizes on equal ground in terms of their opportunities to serve customers. Richard Steggall, Co-Founder and CEO of Urban FT, shares his perspective with MPD...

The Force Behind Connected Commerce
March 23, 2016

“Car 54 Where Are You?” meets payments. Yep, the talking police patrol car that was the star of 60’s TV is looking less like a hokey comedy and more like the inspiration for many a payments innovator with visions of voice activated apps under the...

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Payments Integration Without The Friction
March 23, 2016

Can payments integration — in an environment of expanding channels and payments methods — be both easy and fast? Daniela Mielke, Vantiv’s chief strategy and product officer, told PYMNTS that it can, provided that it also doesn’t mean developers first must become payments experts. Mielke...

Meter Feeder Lets Consumers Pay Via GPS
March 21, 2016

Who has time to pay for parking meters? Clunky change, dipping cards, pressing buttons — no thank you. The drivers of the future are paying for their meters — how else? — with an app. According to a recent article by TechCrunch, Meter Feeder is a mobile app that...

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D+H And The Clearing House Are Teaming Up To Take On Real-Time Payments
March 18, 2016

Tech firm DH Corporation and The Clearing House will be partnering to provide real-time payment options in the United States for financial services firms. Going forward, partner financial institutions will be able to leverage D+H’s core, payments and channel applications as an access point for...

The Oracle At The Intersection
March 16, 2016

This week is a big week for PYMNTS.com as they will play host to their annual Innovation Project. It is an annual pilgrimage I look forward to every year. I have had the great privilege of serving as an IP judge for the last three...

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail
March 14, 2016

Pay attention now because this is going to be absolutely, positively revolutionary. And it’s going to shake the payments industry by its ankles. What is it you ask? Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering...