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...
March 27, 2010
Mark Troughton, President | Green Dot
On the heels of a filing for a $150M IPO, Green Dot President Mark Troughton shares how his company has become a leader and innovator in prepaid. Green Dot is the...
March 27, 2010
Social Shopping and Social Buying
Understanding the Purposes – and Weaknesses – of Online-to-Offline Discounting Ben Edelman has watched as scores of online marketers have promised to transform local commerce, in particular, Groupon. The natural...
March 25, 2010
The “New and Improved” PayPal
Recent announcements show how PayPal is taking on the mantle of Innovation Leader in the payment industry Last week was again rich in announcements for PayPal with the launch...
February 26, 2010
MerchantWARE Mobile Paying Big Dividends for Merchants Using On-the-Go Payment...
Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, today announced significant traction of its mobile payment processing applications, released for the iPhone, iPod Touch and...
February 26, 2010
Merchants, Payments and Convergence
5 Burning Questions: ViVOtech’s President and Founder, Mohammad KahnIn this exclusive NEXTcast interview Mohammad Khan sat down in the Briefing Room hot seat to discuss the 5 burning questions on...
February 24, 2010
Is Visa Becoming Serious about Mobile?
Visa‘s appointment of industry veteran Bill Gajda is an important signal, but structural challenges to innovation will have to be addressed. Ever since its Initial Public Offering prospectus Visa...
February 24, 2010
Innovations in Prepaid
Prepaid cards are useful for customers’ day-to-day money management needs, but are the cards helping them achieve larger financial goals? How TSYS Prepaid is Reinventing Corporate Payments TSYS Executive Scott...
January 28, 2010
Apple & the Dawn of i-Commerce: What the iPad Means...
It will take a couple of iterations, but the iPad will open new frontiers for “e-transactions” Yes, you read it first on PYMNTS.com, the new member of the commerce...