May 31, 2011
Will GoldMoney’s Business Model Have the Midas Touch?
Name: James Turk Title: Founder & Chairman at GoldMoney.com My crowning achievement is… Founding GoldMoney, which is growing rapidly and now safeguards over $2 billion of assets owned by 18,300...
May 25, 2011
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...
May 25, 2011
S-Commerce- A Fourth Retail Channel: An Overview of Social Commerce...
Introduction This section of the Lydian Journal examines the world of social commerce, or as some have described it, the fourth retail channel. Four distinct elements define this commerce...
May 17, 2011
The Branch is Dead…Long Live the Branch!
(Part of the Payments Redefined series) I was having dinner with an entrepreneur in the Indian payments space earlier today. The emerging business models and evolving consumer adoption trends in...
May 02, 2011
Analysis: Hip to be “Square?” Why Visa Thinks So
Last week’s announcement of Visa’s strategic investment in Square set off a wave of news reports and blog posts about its implications for Visa, Square and the rest of the...
May 02, 2011
Richard Schmalensee: The Economic Impact of Durbin on Consumers and...
Full Coverage: Debit Stakeholders Face Off at PYMNTS.com Durbin Conference DAVID EVANS: I’d like to turn now to Dick Schmalensee. Dick is now the Howard Johnson Professor of Economics and...
May 02, 2011
Panel: What’s the Problem, What’s the Solutions, Who Wins, Who...
Full Coverage: Debit Stakeholders Face Off at PYMNTS.com Durbin Conference DAVID EVANS: So I’m going to just turn this over to our moderator for the next panel, who is Doug...
April 21, 2011
Educating the Next Generation of Security Professionals
Editor’s Note In the world today, few topics are more talked about and less understood than “cyber security.” Almost daily, it seems, we hear of another threat to the...
April 18, 2011
LivingSocial Reveals Plans for Future Growth
LivingSocial is one of the pioneers of group buying on the Web, enticing consumers to unlock their daily deals by offering deep discounts on fashion to food and even vacation...
Being a landlord or a property manager is a thankless job. It seems like renters are never happy. Want to know a trick to getting happy tenants? Providing instant payments for refunds, finds PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 2,606 consumers, “Generation Instant: Renters and Refunds,” a collaboration with Ingo Money.