August 02, 2011
Elavon, China UnionPay Reach Agreement
Elavon, a leading global payments provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), and China UnionPay, the bankcard association in China, have signed a binding agreement to enable acceptance...
July 11, 2011
Development Implications of Mobile Money
[This paper is based on presentations by the author at The Macroeconomics of Mobile Money Conference at Columbia Business School, April 2, 2010, and at the United Nations Commission on...
July 06, 2011
Transaction Wireless & Facebook Debut Social Gift Card
Transaction Wireless, the leading provider of multi-channel digital gift card and integrated marketing solutions, announced today that it has been granted a United States patent for its innovative social gifting...
July 05, 2011
55% of People Don’t Know What Benefits They Have on...
(From MasterCard’s “The Heart of Commerce” Blog) Chris Bond | July 1, 2011 We Americans like to travel, but between gas prices and airline prices, it’s not cheap these days. ...
June 29, 2011
Inside Iran: An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Success of...
Background and Introduction Lacking payment systems becomes a bottleneck for the vision of the Information Economy. In many cases, the payments of a fraction of a cent, the so-called...
June 29, 2011
Bloomberg: “How Wal-Mart Trumped JPMorgan on Debit Cards”
June 28, 2011 Bloomberg ran an excellent retrospective today on “the story of the swipe-fee war” that recaps lobbying efforts by both retailers and financial institutions regarding the debate over...
June 27, 2011
CashPlus Prepaid MasterCard Help Cut Costs
The government and local councils throughout the UK are looking to prune their budgets where possible in these tough economic times. But how can you make a saving without it...
June 26, 2011
Session 6: How Mobile and Social Are Changing the Offers...
Highlights – How consumers decide what to buy and how to pay – What influences those decisions – Why that is changing and how payments providers need to adopt –...
June 20, 2011
Elavon’s Point-to-Point Encryption and Tokenization
Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and a leading global payments provider, today releases SAFE-T Suite, its Secure and Flexible Encryption and Tokenization portfolio of products...
