August 11, 2011
Citi® Commercial Cards to Issue Chip & PIN Card Solution...
Citi® today announced the launch of the Citi® Corporate Chip and PIN card, a compliant smart card designed for U.S. corporate cardholders traveling abroad, a first by any U.S. commercial...
August 08, 2011
Party Like It’s 2008: What the US Debt Crisis Means...
Here’s my take on the current global economic turmoil and its implications for the payments industry. (Related: Jon Stewart to Sen. Durbin: “Is This the Worst It’s Been?”) First, what’s...
August 04, 2011
Citi Expands Global Availability of Virtual Card Accounts; Key Enhancements...
Citigroup, through its Global Transaction Services unit, today announced the launch of its award-winning Citi Virtual Card Accounts (VCA) in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, as well as...
July 27, 2011
Prepaid’s Chance to Change the World
By Tim Attinger (Managing Director for Market Platform Dynamics and former Global Head of Product Innovation and Development for Visa Inc.) Prepaid products, particularly those in general purpose reloadable programs,...
July 19, 2011
Gap Innovator Names Most Exciting Growth Opportunity for Retailers Today
Name: Nick Sheth Title: Senior Director, Global Business Development Company: Gap Inc. What I’m working on now… Reaching current and prospective customers with the right message at the right time...
July 11, 2011
Development Implications of Mobile Money
[This paper is based on presentations by the author at The Macroeconomics of Mobile Money Conference at Columbia Business School, April 2, 2010, and at the United Nations Commission on...
June 29, 2011
Boom in eCommerce Sparks Evolution
Top financial and professional services information provider VRL has released a new report on Alternative Payment Channels, which explores changing trends in the global payments market. Both developed and emerging...
June 27, 2011
Emdeon, Fifth Third Bank Collaborate on RevLinkSM 4.0 Platform
Emdeon Inc. (NYSE: EM), a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, and Fifth Third Bank today announced that RevLink SolutionsSM will be...
June 25, 2011
Session 5: Meeting Mobile and Social Commerce at the POS
Highlights – Why merchants have a say in what gets adopted and when – How mag stripes and mobile co-exist (and if they will) – Why extending existing point of...