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 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 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 15, 2010
Lisa Stanton, Global Alliance Director | Monitise
Monitise is a leading provider of mobile payent solutions with an international reach. As the first employee for Monitise Americas, Lisa Stanton is well versed in the company’s unwritten rule...
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 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
Mobile Platforms Evangelist
IP Commerce‘s Platform Evangelist, Tyler Hannan, answers five burning questions on the mobile platform wars and its impact on the payments industry. Hannan is an experienced technologist with a passion...
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...
March 30, 2010
PYMNTS Innovator
MasterCard and Samsung revealed a new use case for contactless mobile payments when they announced that Commonwealth Bank of Australia customers would now be able to make payments via the...