Did China’s Alibaba have the largest IPO in history? Maybe. Shares priced at $68 a pop and it had a market capitalization of $168 as it kicked off trading on the NYSE. This would bring the total amount raised by Alibaba’s IPO to $21.8–and a...
It’s clear that Apple has a tremendous amount of influence when it comes to consumers and their technology, a path SecureNet’s CEO Brent Warrington, says consumers are quite comfortable traveling. But Warrington tells MPD CEO Karen Webster that getting into payments is a much bigger...
Online home furnishings retailer, Wayfair Inc., has set its value at more than $2 billion in documents filed in advance of its initial public offering of stock. Wayfair is projecting an initial share price of $25 to $28 and 82,756,943 shares outstanding after the IPO. Get the...
Perhaps it is the snobbery that associates sophistication with living on one of the two coasts, but when most people think about cities that are being innovative when it comes to mobile payments, Minneapolis probably isn’ their first thought. New York, San Francisco or London...
Meeting the needs of the omnichannel consumer is hard. Yet consumers have very little patience with merchants that can’t meet their needs. A new Vantiv Insight report provides new perspectives about why consumers give merchants a failing grade on their omnichannel report cards and what...
During a recent webinar on procure-to-pay (P2P) trends, participants were polled about what they saw as their greatest P2P challenge. The biggest, cited by a third of procurement specialists attending, was the lack of accurate spend visibility. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
Though Apple gets all the press and glory, Samsung’s smartwatch is out there and may soon include a payments feature much like its Cupertino-born rival. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Who wants a wearable? So far the answer to that questions has been “almost no one,” as smart watches have failed to gain traction in the marketplace. That could, however, see a change with the release of the Apple Watch. Get the Full Story Complete...
Robust economic growth in the U.S. and United Kingdom, combined with a gradual recovery in the Eurozone, should help strengthen global economic activity over the next year, according to the latest HSBC Trade Confidence Index. However, rising geopolitical tensions could weaken such projections. Get the...
