January 05, 2012
A More Perfect Union (With the Consumer)
We the consumers (or of retail payments and the social sphere) We live in an increasingly digitalized world. Undisputed! The amount of information available to each and every one of...
December 07, 2011
New Partners Join the Growing X.commerce Global Ecosystem
LEWEB 2011 — At the LeWeb 2011 conference in Paris, X.commerce today announced that several new partners have joined its global partner ecosystem which includes commerce leaders eBay, PayPal and...
November 27, 2011
And Visions of Smartphones Dance in their Heads (and in...
The holiday season is upon us. I know, wasn’t it just July? That aside, ’tis the season of parties, gift buying and giving, holiday songs and TV and movie classics...
September 29, 2011
ShopText CEO Talks AOL Deal; Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Couponing Conundrum
ShopText has teamed up with AOL Shortcuts to leverage merchants and consumers who are still feeling out the murky waters of mobile payments. The partnership creates a heavier direct-to-card footprint...
September 26, 2011
Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race
PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race Ah, September! It’s the...
August 21, 2011
First Comes Wallet, then Comes Motorola: PYMNTS Readers Predict What’s...
The payments world, heck, the entire world was rocked by last week’s announcement that Google would acquire Motorola Mobility. Given its Google Wallet ambitions, was this a smart purchase for...
July 25, 2011
The Enigma of Zero
(Part of the Payments Redefined series) Abdul runs a ‘kirana’ (a small grocery) store in Dharavi, the world’s largest slum in Mumbai. The area is also the hub of several...
June 12, 2011
Will Google Wallet Ignite mPayments? PYMNTS Readers Weigh In
Google’s announcement of its NFC-mobile payments scheme last month sparked intense interest from payments pundits. But will the Google Wallet do the same for merchants and consumers? Check out the...
June 01, 2011
The 4 Approaches to Mobile Payments: Integrating Your Mobile Strategy
Courtesy of 2nd Mobile Commerce In today’s instant gratification society, consumers expect to have all information readily available at their fingertips. This usually comes in some way, shape, or form...
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.
Being a truck driver is an essential job in the connected economy, and many must pay for gas and maintenance upfront, before payday. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 19-page study, “Generation Instant: How Truckers Use Instant Payments to Support Their Lifestyles,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines the role of instant payments to keep more truckers on the road.