October 04, 2012
Digital Tipping, Passbook Integration: The Latest From Starbucks, Square
Starbucks has announced an expansion of its mobile payments programs with details on its integration with Square, a digital tipping functionality for its mobile app, and Passbook support. Beginning in...
September 28, 2012
CitizyFid Combines Payments And Loyalty Cards
The loyalty market is big in France with French consumers holding in average 9 loyalty cards. As such, Orange France decided to choose Adelya to develop a mobile loyalty wallet...
September 19, 2012
Doxo Puts New Spin On QR Codes, Mobile Payments
QR codes have become all the rage in advertising, but according to paperless information provider doxo, they can have a more impactful use – instant bill payments. PYMNTS.com spoke with...
September 14, 2012
INFOGRAPHIC: The Mobile Commerce Ecosystem
Since just about everything that’s useful to know in the world has been turned into an infographic*, we thought we’d create one to highlight perhaps the biggest buzzword in payments:...
August 14, 2012
MasterCard Gives Us The Skinny On Signing With Shopkick
There are many reasons why MasterCard sees Shopkick as a perfect partner for the future of loyalty and mobile commerce. But one stands out. As MasterCard Vice President of Commerce...
August 14, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: August 13-14
TSYS Signs Healthcare Payments Agreement with Acclaris, Inc. Chase Mobile Now Available to Chase Liquid Customers 100 Million E-Receipts Sent from Wells Fargo ATMs Skype rolls out prepaid card payment...
July 16, 2012
Get In The Express Lane
Interbank Card Center of Turkey, BKM, has recently launched a digital wallet platform, EXPRESS, that makes online purchases both more convenient and less time-consuming. Cardholders are able to shop online...
June 28, 2012
MasterCard Gives Us The Skinny On Signing With Shopkick
There are many reasons why MasterCard sees Shopkick as a perfect partner for the future of loyalty and mobile commerce. But one stands out. As MasterCard Vice President of Commerce...
May 09, 2012
Western Union’s Digital Wallet for Business Cures International Headaches
Paying vendors is an easy task for businesses that work exclusively with dollars. But even adding one currency to the equation can make an absolutely essential business process painful. Western...
Activity in the global real-time payments landscape remains strong, with NetXD’s cloud solution aiding the smooth onboarding and integration of banks onto the RTP® network in the U.S., while in Canada, the eagerly awaited Real-Time Rail payment system steadily advances toward completion and launch. This edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, examines the latest developments fueling the rapid expansion of instant transactions worldwide.
Life as a freelancer is not easy, with late payments often leading to financial strain. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 22-page report, “Generation Instant: How Freelancers Use Instant Payments to Reduce Financial Hardship,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, contains five charts of proprietary data exploring how and why freelancers rely so much on instant payments.