April 30, 2010
Lots Of Talk About NFC Payments, Little Progress
The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it’s a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools. Longtime financial industry...
April 30, 2010
NFC: Past, Present and Future
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...
April 28, 2010
Exclusive Interview with Amit Sethi and Sachin Khandelwal of the...
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 22, 2010
The Web Payment Wars Begin with Visa’s Purchase of CyberSource
Visa’s $2 billion purchase of CyberSource, a leading e-payments provider, may mark the beginning of the wars over who will help merchants and consumers transact over the web. PayPal has...
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 15, 2010
Prabhat Vira, Head of Global Transaction Services, Americas | RBS
Specializing in change management and building businesses throughout the world, Prabhat Vira, Head of Global Transaction Services, Americas at Royal Bank of Scotland, brings with him more than 23 years...
April 15, 2010
Anil D. Aggarwal, Chairman and CEO | TxVia
Anil D. Aggarwal is a proven entrepreneur with a consistent track record of creating and managing successful business ventures. He is a pioneer in network-based payment systems, bringing to market...
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...
Commercial Card Adoption Poised to Rise as Acceptance Costs Decrease
Commercial cards have historically faced stiff headwinds in the B2B payments space, but PYMNTS’ latest research finds that high interest rates, lower effective working-capital costs and a growing willingness to negotiate fees are creating the perfect environment for companies to rethink their stance. Read more in “The Treasury Management Playbook: Businesses Give Commercial Cards a Fresh Look,” a collaboration with Citi.