April 16, 2010
More Than Money
Published in 1888, Bellamy’s book about achieving a utopian society was a huge best seller in its time. “Perhaps you would like to see what our...
April 16, 2010
From Seashells to Electrons
“The use of coin, which has been handed down to us from remote antiquity, has powerfully aided the progress of commercial organization, as the art of making glass...
April 12, 2010
Plastic Cards
About Dee Hock Dee Ward Hock (born 1929) is the founder and former CEO of the VISA credit card association. In 1968 Hock convinced Bank of America...
April 01, 2010
Mobile Platforms Evangelist
IP Commerce‘s Platform Evangelist, Tyler Hannan, answers five burning questions on the mobile platform wars and its impact on the payments industry. Hannan is an experienced technologist with a passion...
April 01, 2010
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
Cecilia Chaing, Lindsay McSweeney, Apr 01, 2010 A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice is reprinted here as it was published in 1955. In this paper, Simon writes that “the distance...
March 30, 2010
PYMNTS Innovators
Featured Briefing Room TSYS Program Solutions Featured Content Mid-Tier Banks and Credit Unions Can Compete and Win in Today’s Credit Card MarketplaceTSYS’ new whitepaper puts a big focus...
March 29, 2010
An Innovation Imperiled: Attempting ‘The Big Idea’ at the Wrong...
Replacing the Rubberband: How Payments Innovations that Once Failed Can Resurface and Thrive > The conference call had the hallmarks of a slam-dunk investment: big-name venture capitalists, founders who...
March 27, 2010
Carol Realini, CEO | Obopay
Carol Realini is the entrepreneur behind Obopay which has allowed customers to send and receive money through mobile phone SMS since 2005. Carol came out of retirement to pursue this...
March 12, 2010
Perhaps It’s Time to Mothball the Mighty Mag-Stripe?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Martian travels to Earth and examines the U.S. payments system. He is perplexed by the dogged persistence in using a 40-year-old technology...
