April 14, 2013
How JCP’s Strategy Made A Penney Not Saved
Just about everyone by now knows the story of JC Penney, or JCP as the brand is now known. In forty characters, it is how a 110-year-old brand hires Apple...
March 19, 2013
Fifth Third Bancorp Announces Ten Percent Increase in Quarterly Cash...
Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) today declared a cash dividend on its common shares of $0.11 for the first quarter of 2013. The dividend is payable on Thursday,...
March 01, 2013
MWC Day Four: Mobeam, Mobile Money And Wrapping Up
By Ben Carsley, Writer/Editor (@BC_PYMNTS) Welcome to Day Four of PYMNTS.com’s Mobile World Congress 2013 Recap: a comprehensive look at all the most important payments announcements and coolest stories from...
January 24, 2013
Twitter’s Takes On Apple, NFC, And Security
Here are our top five tweets from the week that was. Keep tweeting, and we may feature you next Friday. @airtag: #NFC alone is only an enabler, #ISIS adds value...
April 23, 2012
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
February 09, 2012
Realty Income Announces Record Fourth Quarter and 2011 Operating Results
Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income), The Monthly Dividend Company® (NYSE:O), today announced operating results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011. Access to this document is available at www.realtyincome.com....
January 08, 2012
Making Consumers Pay More for Cards Will Dampen Payments Innovation
A famous American philosopher by the name of Yogi Berra once said that it’s tough to make predictions—especially about the future. And of course any economist worth their salt knows...
August 25, 2011
Why Steve Jobs Will Go Down as “The Man”
EDITOR’S PICKS Prof.Steve Jobs: Lessons from His Legacy for the Payments Sector Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO (Editor’s Note: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5. He...
June 30, 2011
The Fed’s Final Debit Rules: Did Anyone Win?
– Fed Memo on Debit Regulations – Fed’s Full-Length Report on Debit Regulations Whew, at least it’s over! Two months after they were due under the Dodd-Frank Act and about...