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 22, 2010
Exclusive Interview: Andrew Ching on Payment Rewards and Loyalty
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview PYMNTS.com sat down with Andrew Ching, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto. Andrew weighs in on loyalty and rewards programs and how...
April 22, 2010
NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments...
April 22, 2010
Cards, Coupons, Cell Phones, Oh My.
There was a story earlier this week about the bigger role that “general purpose” payment cards are now playing in the store loyalty card space. The elevator story here is...
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 20, 2010
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire?
There’s a lot of speculation about the recent move by Target to abandon its Visa co-branded card in favor of its own private label store version. Some say that it...
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...