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...
December 02, 2010
eCom 302: Exam Results
The exams have been scored. We wanted to share with you the results of the eCom 302 to date. Question 1: What was the biggest driver for consumer adoption of...
December 02, 2010
eCom 301: Exam Results
Once again, we’ve reached the end of a course, and it’s time for a quiz. The results we report out to the group will be collective – a measure of...
December 01, 2010
What the U.S. Can Learn from Japan’s eCommerce Ecosystem
From eMoney to mobile money, it can be argued that Japanese consumers embrace and adopt new payments technologies much more quickly than the American public. Not only has Japan has...
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.
The United Arab Emirates boasts a robust digital market, with 89% of retail shoppers leveraging digital tools in physical stores and the second highest ranking in customer satisfaction among the six countries studied. A new 31-page PYMNTS Intelligence report, “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: UAE Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, examines the state of digital shopping in this country where merchants are challenged to keep pace with shopper’s digital needs.