March 06, 2012
New Purchase and Pay Innovation to Drive Government Procurement
March 6, 2012–London, UK MasterCard, ProcServe and Invapay have announced a new initiative to deliver an innovative Purchase and Pay solution to underpin the government’s drive towards efficiency in its...
March 05, 2012
Exploring the Dongle: A Tale of Two Swipers
One of the coolest features we’ve ever published on PYMNTS.com about security took on a device with perhaps the silliest name of any component of payments: the dongle. Dongle security...
February 07, 2012
Text2Pay Mobile Payments Wizard – Easy as 1 2 3!
With the completion of these 3 simple steps, merchants will instantly be able to use the Text2Pay mobile payment service to bill their customers for virtual goods and online content....
January 31, 2012
Exclusive: PayPal Innovation Guru Shares Secrets to POS Success
Not even a month into 2012 and the payments space is already abuzz with innovation. One company seeming to have its finger in many of those pots is PayPal. Patrick...
January 27, 2012
Nintendo Makes Move to Revolutionize Digital Consol Sales
Nintendo has revealed that its upcoming system, the Wii U, will encompass Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, according to a report by Venture Beat. Related: NFC Payments & Marketing Innovation:...
January 08, 2012
Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race
Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the race to the physical point of sale – mobile payments style....
January 08, 2012
Earthquake Aftermath in Haiti: The Rise of Mobile Money Adoption...
Introduction In a cybercafé in downtown Port-au-Prince, Jean Yves deposits money into his TchoTcho Mobile account. Michel, his brother who owns the business, recommended that he register for this mobile...
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...
Real-time payments continue their global sweep, with over 266 billion transactions recorded worldwide in 2023, a 42% year-over-year increase, and even more growth forecasted for the foreseeable future. In the U.S., as the latest “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores, some banks are slow to meet customer demand for real-time options, but JPMorgan is piloting a new real-time service that could soon benefit its 60 million retail clients.
Compared to restaurant and healthcare SMBs, those in transportation are around 20% more likely to have adopted instant payments as their most used way to send payments. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 49-page report, “Small Business Real-time Payments Barometer: Transportation Edition,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, includes 12 charts of exclusive data showing how transportation SMBs are winning the race.