Sweden-based mobile payment firm iZettle is often compared to Square. And the comparison is certainly not entirely unwarranted, as both firms are known for essentially the same achievement: enabling small businesses and micro-merchants to accept card payments, albeit in two very different marketplaces with rather...
Amid the turmoil that has rocked the Chinese stock market and names that are traded on the U.S. exchanges, one name stands out among many, and that’s Alibaba. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
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It looks like former eBay/PayPal CEO John Donahoe will not be alone taking a long vacation post-PayPal spinoff. Hill Ferguson, who is currently product and engineering boss for PayPal’s consumer business, is bowing out. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Apple Pay launched in the U.K. around a month ago — albeit with one very sharp limit. Consumers, due to a cap on contactless payments methods (like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, contactless cards or just about anything that makes use of NFC) were limited to...
This week the University of Oklahoma will be a payments pioneer as it becomes the first university to accept Apple Pay across its campus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
You want to succeed in cross-border commerce? No better place to start than by looking at the merchants that are at the top of their game. In a recent webinar about the latest X-Border Optimization Index, John Phillips, Head of Marketing for Digital River World...
Dick The Butcher, in Shakespeare’s "Henry VI," famously proposed “first let’s kill the lawyers” as the most appropriate way to jumpstart the overthrow he was cooking up. Fast forward a few centuries and MPD CEO Karen Webster posits that The Clearing House’s (TCH) latest white...
As China sees slowing growth, to levels not seen in a quarter century, there’s a silver lining, says MasterCard. It lays out the three pillars that it believes will not only enable a stronger China and its trading partners, but SMEs, in particular. A new...
