February 18, 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...
February 15, 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...
February 15, 2010
INSIDE Contactless Achieves First Commercial Deployment of Its NFC Technologies
INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced the first deployment of its portfolio of NFC technologies in a commercially available NFC handset. All three...
February 15, 2010
Mobile Contactless Payments Trialled Live at MWC 2010
Today the GSMA, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Telefónica, and Visa, together with Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa, announced the arrival of contactless mobile payments at Mobile...
January 22, 2010
5 Burning Questions: Monitise Americas’ Soren Bested
PYMNTS.com asked Soren Bested, Monitise Americas‘ Managing Director, to answer five burning questions on the mobile platform wars and its impact on the payments industry. Soren Bested has been with...
January 16, 2010
Cooperation Models for the Development of Mobile Payment Solutions
Introduction The technological advances in the field of near-field contactless communications (NFC) and the development of sophisticated mobile applications have enabled mobile phones to become a potential means of payment....
January 06, 2010
Why Paypal May Do to Payments What Apple Did to...
PayPal Will Open Up the Walled Garden of Payments The 4th quarter of 2009 is definitely starting to feel like the dawn of a new age for e-commerce, with...
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
Cooperation Models for the Development of Mobile Payment Solutions
Introduction The technological advances in the field of near-field contactless communications (NFC) and the development of sophisticated mobile applications have enabled mobile phones to become a potential means of payment....
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.