May 06, 2010
The Morning After
PayPal’s Efforts to Capture Payments ShareThree announcements over the last week highlight PayPal’s moves to take a big share of the payments market. Will the Apple Fall Far From...
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 22, 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...
April 20, 2010
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire?
There’s a lot of speculation about the recent move by Target to abandon its Visa co-branded card in favor of its own private label store version. Some say that it...
April 20, 2010
The Security Conundrum – Part 1: The Puzzle
In recent weeks I have picked a number of conversation threads on the on-going difficulties of securing transactions, such as the recent PYMNTS.com posts of Mohammad Khan and Jack Jania...
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...
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.
