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 22, 2010
Can IP Commerce Create the Apps Store for Payments?

There’s no Steve Jobs strutting on the stage, massive consumer buzz, or slick television ads about how there’s an app just for you. But there are some things you’ve probably...

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 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 06, 2010
Online Banking Solutions (OBS) Demos New ACH and Wire Transfer...

  Online Banking Solutions (OBS)        What:               At the upcoming NACHA PAYMENTS 2010 conference in Seattle, Wash., Online   Banking Solutions (OBS),...

April 01, 2010
Where’s the Next Generation Wallet?

Why Contactless and Mobile Payments Have Lagged Behind in Consumer Adoption In the United States and around the world, financial institutions and non-banks are considering how and to what extent...

April 01, 2010
NFC and the Trough of Disillusionment

The announcement by the GSMA and its partners of another NFC demonstration pilot highlights how Near Field Communication is caught in the “trough of disillusionment.” Commerce innovators shouldn’t despair, the...