April 30, 2010
Lots Of Talk About NFC Payments, Little Progress
The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it’s a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools. Longtime financial industry...
April 30, 2010
NFC: Past, Present and Future
The announcement by the GSMA and its partners of another NFC demonstration pilot highlights how Near Field Communication is caught in the “trough of disillusionment.” Commerce innovators shouldn’t despair, the...
April 29, 2010
The Card Networks: Stealthy Tigers or Deer in the Headlights?
The traditional card networks are great at what they do and they’ve only gotten better over time. Transactions occur lickety-split over their networks. They provide valuable services to merchants and...
April 28, 2010
Exclusive Interview with Amit Sethi and Sachin Khandelwal of the...
PYMNTS.com asked industry expert and author of Paying with Plastic, David S. Evans to profile industry thought leaders and executives to find out what’s next in the world of payments....
April 16, 2010
More Than Money
Published in 1888, Bellamy’s book about achieving a utopian society was a huge best seller in its time. “Perhaps you would like to see what our...
April 15, 2010
Lisa Stanton, Global Alliance Director | Monitise
Monitise is a leading provider of mobile payent solutions with an international reach. As the first employee for Monitise Americas, Lisa Stanton is well versed in the company’s unwritten rule...
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...
April 09, 2010
MasterCard Joins Forces With Next Jump
Joshua Peirez, Group Head of Innovative Platforms, MasterCard Worldwide and Charlie Kim, Founder and CEO of Next Jump discuss the exclusive alliance to revolutionize the consumer e-commerce experience. Visit MasterCard...
April 01, 2010
Who Owns Mobile Money
It has long been predicted that the digital revolution will transform the way people pay at their point-of-sale transactions. The end of the cash era could indeed have dramatic consequences,...
