November 04, 2010
There’s Two Sides to Every [Payments Platform] Story
After a presentation by Mark Lavelle (VP of Strategy & Business Development, PayPal) about innovation planning, in which he discussed the development of Bill Me Later, Tim Attinger, Managing Director...
November 03, 2010
The Innovation Rumble at Harvard
PYMNTS.com was at Harvard University, where industry thought leaders and top executives came together for The [Payments] Innovation Institute. Over the two-day event, PYMNTS.com compiled blog posts at the “innovation...
November 01, 2010
The Web Payment Wars Begin with Visa’s Purchase of CyberSource
Visa’s $2 billion purchase of CyberSource, a leading e-payments provider, may mark the beginning of the wars over who will help merchants and consumers transact over the web. PayPal has...
October 28, 2010
Visa Opens Platform to Capture Market Share
Visa made a major announcement earlier this week, revving up Authorize.Net as an open software platform for developers. (Read More) The company’s Global Head of Product, Jim McCarthy, discusses the...
October 26, 2010
Competitive Opportunity in a Post Durbin World
Competitive opportunity in a post Durbin world: richer debit rewards as the unintended consequence of the $10 billion exclusion. Dozens of articles have been written about the impact of the...
October 26, 2010
Visa Opens Platform to Capture Market Share
Visa made a major announcement earlier this week, revving up Authorize.Net as an open software platform for developers. (Read More) The company’s Global Head of Product, Jim McCarthy, discusses the...
October 25, 2010
Mobile 206 Lesson 2: Emerging Mobile Evolution
Mobile 206 Lesson 2: Emerging Mobile Evolution Lesson 2 Discussion Board: What kind of incremental and unique value proposition might make a new mobile NFC private label credit product more...
October 21, 2010
Straight from BAI- Verizon is Reinventing Retail Financial Services
Vegas, baby! The PYMNTS.com team made the trek to Vegas for the BAI Retail Delivery conference. The weather is varied, the venue is vast, and the conference topic is “value.”...
October 18, 2010
Statistical Profile
The population of Canada is 33.5 million people. Consumer Payments by type (2005) Share of Sales Cash Payments 29% Debit...
Glass half full, glass half empty? Only half of consumers are happy with the embedded lending options they find when shopping online. That’s only one of the key takeaways from a brand new PYMNTS Intelligence’s study, “The Embedded Lending Opportunity,” commissioned by Visa, that surveyed over 8,000 consumers in Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. to explore areas of unmet consumer need that embedded lending can fill.
