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December 13, 2014
Festivus And The Airing Of The Payments Grievances
Every year there are a plethora of stories every year about the war on Christmas, followed by the plethora of headlines about why there is no war on Christmas. What...
December 12, 2014
Square Shuffles Its Executive Team
As it approaches its 6th anniversary, Square has announced some major changes for the company. Most recently, those changes are said to include a reorganization of its engineering executive team...
December 12, 2014
PYMNTS Talks Back About … Apple Pay
Variety, it is said, is the spice of life. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
December 11, 2014
PayPal Pushes Password-less Payments
PayPal will be pushing hard to advance password-free authentication now that a complete version of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) specifications have been published, the company said in a blog...
December 10, 2014
ICA Introduces Sweden To Contactless Cards
Swedish bank ICA will issue MasterCard contactless payment cards to more than 500,000 customers in the first contactless rollout in Sweden, the bank announced on Tuesday (Dec. 9). Get the...
December 10, 2014
Square Poaches Visa CMO
Kevin Burke, Visa’s Chief Marketing Officer for its core products, has jumped to Square where he will “head up acquisition channels,” according to a statement Square issued on Tuesday (Dec....
December 09, 2014
The Year That Many Missed: 2014 Mobile Payment Predictions
About a year ago, the pundits said that 2014 was going to be the year of mobile payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
December 09, 2014
Brazil’s The Bellwether For Mobile Payments
Brazil is one of the fastest-growing payments markets in the world, with the most developed card market in Latin America and boasting 70 percent of the total ecommerce transactions in...
December 09, 2014
UK Consumers Pick Favorite Non-Banks
Almost one-quarter of U.K. consumers would be “likely” to use an online payment provider like PayPal and WePay for retail banking services within two years, according to a survey of...
AI agents are rapidly becoming the new power brokers in digital commerce, making purchases, managing subscriptions and choosing merchants before a consumer ever lifts a finger. Tokenization is giving these agents the authority to act and rewriting long-standing assumptions about checkout, loyalty and customer control.
Read more in “Prompt Economy™: Tokens, Trust, and Transactions,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa collaboration.
“How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce,” a new PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, finds that while many acquirers believe existing payments infrastructure can support agent-led commerce, real-world adoption still hinges on solving practical hurdles such as merchant integration costs, legacy systems and trust around fraud, identity and liability.