August 16, 2010
Igniting Payments in India
With almost 90% of payment transactions in India done in cash, there is little doubt that alternative payments have taken a back seat. Recently, banks have begun to promote electronic...
August 16, 2010
Introduction to India
As the 11th largest card market, and projected to rank 7th for 2011 [1], India promises a wealth of opportunities. Many global payment trends [2] have taken hold in the...
August 12, 2010
Tick Tock Goes the Durbin Clock- Eight Months to go...
The Durbin clock is ticking. A week from today the Fed will only have 8 of its 9 months left for some of the most sweeping price regulation the economy...
August 11, 2010
Prepaid International Forum’s India Chapter Celebrates First Anniversary with Members...
Prepaid International Forum (PIF) today announced a successful first year of operation for the global trade body’s India Chapter with sustained momentum and increasing awareness of the role the association...
August 11, 2010
Visa Increases Customer Loyalty with Stratus Rewards
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview, PYMNTS.com sits down with Diana Berman, the newly appointed Senior Vice President at Stratus Rewards LLC. This native Australian will direct the upcoming launch of...
August 10, 2010
Recent Developments In Antitrust Class Actions in The United Kingdom
Robert O’Donoghue, Aug 10, 2010 Somewhat fitful attempts at promoting antitrust damages litigation have taken place in the EU in the last several years. These attempts have been stymied to...
August 06, 2010
Competition aspects of new mobile payment networks: The case of...
December 2008 Introduction This note reviews the Spanish experience with regulating the competition aspects of new mobile payment networks in the absence of formal technical standards. The saga is...
August 03, 2010
Introduction
Until two years ago, foreign banks wanted desperately to gain exposure in China, hoping to take advantage of the rise of a credit culture among the fast growing Chinese middle...
August 02, 2010
Will the Mobile Payments JV Trounce MasterCard and Visa?
Judging by the breathy press reports yesterday of the new, sort of, kind of, maybe joint venture between mobile behemoths AT&T and Verizon (with T-Mobile in the mix too) MasterCard...
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.
