April 29, 2010
The Card Networks: Stealthy Tigers or Deer in the Headlights?
The traditional card networks are great at what they do and they’ve only gotten better over time. Transactions occur lickety-split over their networks. They provide valuable services to merchants and...
April 26, 2010
PayPal X’s Global Payments Development Platform
When it comes to using invisible engines to drive innovation and transform industries, PayPal is the first out of the gate in the payments industry and well ahead of the...
April 26, 2010
PayPal’s Payments Platform: Open For Business
PYMNTS.com asked industry expert and author of Paying with Plastic, David S. Evans to profile industry thought leaders and executives to find out what’s next in the world of payments....
April 25, 2010
Loyalty, the Social Way
Social is to strategy what the internet was to commerce back in the early part of this century – a new way to reduce costs and increase revenue by improving...
April 24, 2010
Five Burning Quesions on Loyalty: Loylogic’s Steve Landuyt
Steve Landuyt is the Executive Vice President for Loylogic, Inc, a Swiss company which specializes in global loyalty and reward solutions for the payment industry, airlines, hotels and gaming providers....
April 20, 2010
The Security Conundrum – Part 1: The Puzzle
In recent weeks I have picked a number of conversation threads on the on-going difficulties of securing transactions, such as the recent PYMNTS.com posts of Mohammad Khan and Jack Jania...
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 09, 2010
Jack is Back with the Scoop on Square
PYMNTS.com asked industry expert and author of Paying with Plastic, David S. Evans to profile industry thought leaders and executives to find out what’s next in the world of payments....