January 12, 2010
Barbarians at the Gate: The Coming Disruption of Retail Banking
How Prepaid Cards Enhanced with Mobile Delivery Create a New Competitive Paradigm It can’t be fun being a banking executive these days. Your herd is being thinned, your bonus...
January 06, 2010
Focus on Healthcare Payments
Past History and New Trends in the Use of Healthcare Payment Cards Total U.S. healthcare costs were a staggering $2.25 trillion in 2007, and they are expected to double...
January 05, 2010
PCIDSS and the Legal Framework for Security: An Update on...
I. Introduction Consumer risks associated with unauthorized payment card usage have largely been assumed by others within the payment card matrix, leaving consumers mostly immune from financial liability. But related...
January 05, 2010
Payment Card Interchange Fees and Merchant Service Charges – An...
As payment cards have become an increasingly important electronic retail payment type in many countries, payment card fees, especially interchange fees, have become the source of a good deal of...
January 04, 2010
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #1 MasterCard and...
Why the MasterCard and Visa IPOs Were the Most Significant Development of the Last Decade MasterCard and Visa emerged as publicly traded financial powerhouses after four decades of working for...
January 03, 2010
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #2 Mobile Payments
The Marriage of Mobile and Payments Make the World a Better Place The marriage of mobile phones and payments has improved the lives of millions of people in the poorest...
December 29, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #3 Debit Cards
Debit Takes the Plastic Throne in the U.S. Think back to 1995. The Netscape IPO started the internet stock mania, Monica and Bill were just getting it on at the...
December 28, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #5 Innovation Driven...
The use of prepaid cards has exploded during the first decade of this century and they have enabled many types of payment innovation from whipping through transit lines to helping...
December 22, 2009
Women Prefer Debit or Cash Over Credit Cards
CheapToday, Inc., the Online Shopping Network specializing in publishing quality deals from high profile brands including Sears, Kmart, Target, Kohl’s, Walmart, Macy’s, Calvin Klein and Barnes & Noble, today announced...