The holidays are a time for both hyper-vigilance and hopes. Many consumers must watch their spending so they don’t exceed their credit card limits or empty too much money from their bank accounts. Merchants and issuers must be on close watch for fraud, while also...
As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. Retailers, payments providers and even some consumers — especially those first-wave adopters, the types of people willing...
Twitter revealed that it has received more government demands for data on its users between January and June of this year than its previous reporting period. According to the social media site’s most recent Transparency Report, it received 10 percent more requests during this current reporting period...
Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to work more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid...
The past is prologue, right? What has happened before sets the stage. Some famous English writer in the olden days wrote something along those lines. In the case of mobile payments and commerce, the last five years in the history of Braintree —since it was...
Brick-and-mortar is a no-go —literally. Consumers simply don’t visit physical stores to discover new products anymore. In fact, there is about a 58 percent chance that a consumer knew what they were going to buy before they even walked into the store to make their...
AT&T has announced that it will be offering a 5G smartphone from Samsung in the first half of 2019. “5G is going to be about more than just a network. Customers will eventually be able to connect in near real-time to unforeseen possibilities,” David Christopher,...
If Hollywood, gripped by reboot fever, ever remakes the 1983 classic movie “A Christmas Story” — hey, we are just doing a thought experiment here, not calling for it to actually happen — Ralphie wouldn’t need Santa and his judgmental, contrary, entirely non-professional attitude. Instead, the...
Location, location, location. Even people without a mind for business remember that motto as one of the guiding principles of retail and other forms of commerce — absorbed, perhaps, in a high school class or via any number of articles, TV shows, commercials or bits of...
