Cash is still king. Installment payments rule. Fraud is hard to spot. Online and mobile rule. That’s the lay of the payments land in Latin America. Martin Schrimpff, Co-Founder of PayU and MPD CEO Karen Webster recently took PYMNTS peeps on a fascinating tour of...
Prior to his company’s appearance at Innovation Project, Serge Elkiner, Cofounder and CEO of YellowPepper, spoke with PYMNTS about the 10-year journey of bringing mobile payments to Latin America, the additional payment solutions that YellowPepper is now putting into place in the region and how...
The world is increasingly sleep deprived. Nearly 70 percent of adults in the U.S., 75 percent in the U.K. and nearly a third of the world’s population say that a good night’s sleep eludes them at least once a week. Sleep experts contend that people just...
Visa is partnering with Planet Payment, Inc., an international payment processing and transaction service, to deploy an easy-to-use payment processing solution for acquirers and merchants in growing markets around the world. The payments processing solution, Visa’s Accelerated Connection Platform (ACP), promises to boost sales and...
MasterCard is collaborating with The New School’s Parsons School of Design to bring together the worlds of payment technology and fashion in a joint-sponsored Fashion and Design Hack, the company announced Monday (Feb. 29). The event will feature teams of students competing to develop, build...
The first phase rollout of the Pin4 open cardless cash network in the U.S. was announced Tuesday (Feb. 23) and will provide cardless access to Pin4-enabled ATMs in New York City, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles. The expansion will continue nationwide throughout the remainder of...
From eCommerce fraud to faster payments, checkout abandonment to consumer engagement – narrowing down the hottest topics in payments can be as easy as swiping left or right. The PYMNTS Matchmaker eBook (inspired by today’s popular matchmaking apps) shares what’s top of mind for some of the...
City living is set to skyrocket — with unprecedented growth expected by the year 2050 — placing a huge amount of stress on the infrastructures that keep cities running. But could integrating payments and mobility lay the foundation for change? Hany Fam, president of MasterCard...
What happens when you turn the check register into an electronic payments device capable of accepting any payment method that a consumer might want to use? Restaurant sales go up $1,000 a month. That’s what Steve McKean, President and COO at TableSafe, told PYMNTS about...
