January 05, 2011
The Impact of Durbin and Facebook on Payments Resolutions

In the New Year, innovative fee-generating strategies and the Facebook gaming phenomenon are among the issues forefront in the mind of Market Platform Dynamics’ Margaret Weichert. She continues our Resolution...

January 05, 2011
Mobile 401 Lesson 2: Evolution

by Tim Attinger LESSON 2 DISCUSSION QUESTION: What is the “killer app” or feature that will finally tie mobility to payment and information in a way that is truly transformative...

December 28, 2010
Point of Transaction 301 Exam Results

The exams have been scored. Here is a round-up of how PYMNTS U. participants answered on the Point of Transaction 301 exam. Question 1: Which stakeholder in the payments value...

December 23, 2010
Virtual Currency Equals Love

On the 11th Day of Christmas my true love gave to me … 100 Facebook credits and told me I could go crazy buying virtual stuff for my farm on...

December 20, 2010
Point of Sale Revolution: Transformation of Payment Acceptance

Point of Sale (POS) payment acceptance was once a relatively sleepy, almost commodity-like extension of the merchant acquiring business, with a handful of standard terminals manufactured by Verifone, Hypercom and...

December 20, 2010
Social Commerce: Who’s Turning Visits into Cash?

‘Tis the season to be shopping, and retailers have their fingers crossed that this year’s sales will shine a little brighter in comparison to the last two years. This article...

December 16, 2010
Wheeling and Dealing Through 2011

On this seventh day of Christmas, are you, too, having trouble finding those elusive seven swans a-swimmin’? Well, it just might be that one of the thousands of online deal...

December 15, 2010
Small (Biz) Is Beautiful and Plentiful (for Paying and Borrowing)

On the fifth day of Christmas, in the United States, Santa gave payments small businesses. Sure, small is beautiful as the blockbuster 1973 book by that name insisted. But even...

November 14, 2010
Insights on Payment Innovation from Harvard Business School’s 16th Annual...

I was asked to moderate a panel on Innovation in Payments Saturday (November 13, 2010) as part of Harvard Business School’s 16th annual Cyberposium. This year’s theme was Battle of...