January 04, 2010
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #1 MasterCard and...
Why the MasterCard and Visa IPOs Were the Most Significant Development of the Last Decade MasterCard and Visa emerged as publicly traded financial powerhouses after four decades of working for...
December 29, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #3 Debit Cards
Debit Takes the Plastic Throne in the U.S. Think back to 1995. The Netscape IPO started the internet stock mania, Monica and Bill were just getting it on at the...
December 28, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #5 Innovation Driven...
The use of prepaid cards has exploded during the first decade of this century and they have enabled many types of payment innovation from whipping through transit lines to helping...
December 27, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #4 PayPal
The New Kid on the Block: PayPal Starting a new payment system is incredibly difficult. Many try, few succeed. MasterCard and Visa did it in the 1960s. No one did...
December 22, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #6 What Has...
Its head has gotten bigger and the tail longer and skinner. I’m not talking about a scary monster but about the distribution of purchasing volume for the credit and debit...
December 22, 2009
Women Prefer Debit or Cash Over Credit Cards
CheapToday, Inc., the Online Shopping Network specializing in publishing quality deals from high profile brands including Sears, Kmart, Target, Kohl’s, Walmart, Macy’s, Calvin Klein and Barnes & Noble, today announced...
December 20, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #8 The Mag...
Okay, so not dying doesn’t sound like it could be one of the greatest developments of the decade. It is on my list because it some of the greatest developments...
December 18, 2009
NFIB National Small Business Poll: Credit Cards
• Half (49%) of small businesses accept credit and/or debit cards as a form of payment and half (51%) do not. Credit cards pay for about five times as many...
December 16, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #10 Collateral Damage...
The decade ended with the start of the most severe financial crisis the world has faced since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In many respects the payments industry was...
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.
