As a senior payment and prepaid payment executive with experience ranging from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing start-ups, Walter Paulsen has driven innovation at the point-of-sale and gift cards. In this audio interview, Paulsen discusses the challenges he faced launching what is now a commonly accepted form...
PYMNTS.com’s exclusive interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet was recently mentioned in an interesting Bloomberg.com article, “Buffett Says U.S. Should Pressure CEOs of Aided Firms” by Andrew Frye. In the article, they quote Mr. Buffett’s from his interview with Business Wire CEO Cathy Baron...
ViVOtech is the leading end-to-end enabler of next generation mobile payments, loyalty, and marketing solutions. ViVOtech provides Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment solutions, mobile marketing and loyalty applications software, Over-The-Air (OTA) provisioning infrastructure software, NFC smart posters, and contactless terminals. ViVOtech’s products are used...
What’s Next with Apriva: An interview with EVP Bill Clark Founded in 1999, Apriva is the leading wireless solutions provider integrating the hardware, software and network infrastructure required to develop and deploy high-performance high-reliability solutions in the Point of Sale Get the Full Story Complete...
Does taking plastic get people to spend more money? The card networks certainly think so and have often touted increased sales as one of the reasons why merchants should accept plastic and be happy to pay for it. My skeptical economist colleagues question this. They...
Amazon and PayPal have both announced aggressive efforts to persuade developers to use their payment technologies. Each of them has opened up a gateway into their payment platforms. They are providing developers with tools for writing applications that use their payment technologies. And they are...
I recently testified before the House Committee on Financial Services on the “The Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009” sponsored by Representative Welch. The Act would allow merchants to impose surcharges on cards, prevent card networks broadly defined from charging higher interchange fees for...
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David S. Evans (University College London; University of Chicago Law School) and Joshua D. Wright (George Mason University School of Law) argue that the CFPA Act would harm the economy in the long run but more importantly it would impose yet another lead weight on...