December 15, 2010
Who Will Process My eCommerce Payments Now?
If you are a manager of an online business, particularly if that business is a small one, this time of year is likely a boom time for your operation. Whether...
December 15, 2010
Point of Transaction 301 Lesson 3: PoT Implications
by Tim Attinger Point of Transaction 301 (elective. PoT 201 and Cloud Payments 210 prerequisites): The Network is the Terminal Lesson 3 Discussion Board: What do you think would be...
December 14, 2010
Point of Transaction 301 Lesson 2: PoT Evolution
by Tim Attinger Point of Transaction 301 (elective. PoT 201 and Cloud Payments 210 prerequisites): The Network is the Terminal Lesson 2 Discussion Board: Why have eCommerce merchants been the...
December 13, 2010
Accelerating Deployment of Open NFC Mobile Commerce Applications
Introduction Driven by the convergence of standards, core technologies, devices and associated industry alliances, 2011 is poised to be the catalytic launch year for commercial Near Field Communication (NFC) handsets....
December 13, 2010
Point of Transaction 301 Lesson 1: PoT Landscape
by Tim Attinger Point of Transaction 301 (elective. PoT 201 and Cloud Payments 210 prerequisites): The Network is the Terminal Lesson 1 Discussion Board: Why is the merchant point of...
December 13, 2010
Point of Transaction 301 (elective. PoT 201 and Cloud Payments...
As complexity, and commensurate value, in processing payments moves to the network platform, or “cloud,” endpoints will increasingly access that value through flexible thin-client interfaces. For remote payments this may...
December 12, 2010
Is 2011 the Year for Social Commerce?
2011 will be the year that social commerce begins to take root on Facebook with solutions that are both merchant and customer friendly. To be fair, pundits have been talking...
December 09, 2010
Delivering ROI for Customers Investing in Fraud Protection
With this week’s cyber attacks on Visa, MasterCard and other financial organizations, security is certainly on the mind of the payments community more than ever. As far as payments fraud,...
December 08, 2010
For One Swallow Does Not Make a Spring
On Tuesday, Samsung and Google announced the Nexus S, with NFC. The payment technology industry, gathered in Paris for the CARTES & IDentification 2010 conference will no doubt rejoice, yet...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Despite the tremendous growth in Click-and-Mortar™ shopping in Brazil over the last three years, the country’s retailers don’t offer 39% of the features that consumers want. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, draws on insights from 2,200 consumers and 622 merchants to reveal what Brazil’s merchants need to know to drive consumer satisfaction and loyalty.