January 22, 2010
5 Burning Questions: Monitise Americas’ Soren Bested

PYMNTS.com asked Soren Bested, Monitise Americas‘ Managing Director, to answer five burning questions on the mobile platform wars and its impact on the payments industry. Soren Bested has been with...

January 20, 2010
Mobile Platform Wars: The VC POV

PYMNTS.com put Derek Pilling, a venture capitalist and Managing Director at Meritage Funds, in the Briefing Room Hot Seat to answer five burning questions on the mobile platform wars and...

January 16, 2010
The Challenges of Square Mobilizing Payments

A decade ago with the advent of e-commerce a wave of companies promised to radically transform the way payments were accepted, from wallets to micro-payments. This year, year 0 in...

January 06, 2010
Why Paypal May Do to Payments What Apple Did to...

PayPal Will Open Up the Walled Garden of Payments   The 4th quarter of 2009 is definitely starting to feel like the dawn of a new age for e-commerce, with...

January 05, 2010
PCIDSS and the Legal Framework for Security: An Update on...

I. Introduction Consumer risks associated with unauthorized payment card usage have largely been assumed by others within the payment card matrix, leaving consumers mostly immune from financial liability. But related...

December 10, 2009
Billeo’s Offer Assistant Saves Shoppers $500 on the Hottest Holiday...

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Billeo.com (www.billeo.com) – the provider of a suite of Online Assistants that save people time and money in all types of online...

December 07, 2009
5 Questions on Holiday Spending: CashStar’s David Stone

For this year’s Briefing Room on Holiday Shopping, PYMNTS.com asked CashStar’s Founder and CEO, David Stone, to offer his holiday shopping predections and to share what’s next for CashStar. The...

December 03, 2009
Square Aims at Mobilizing Payments

Once again the silicon valley is abuzz with talk about the new project from one of its heroes, but will Square, meet expectations? A decade ago with the advent of...

November 18, 2009
Insights into Consumer Use of Financial Products: Payoffs from the...

I talked about behavioral economics in my last blog. Some of the top minds in that field are studying how consumers use financial products. They aren’t doing this to provide...