Payment Methods

Prepaid Products and the “Self-Banked”
August 28, 2014

Don’t think of prepaid products as only for the unbanked, or even the unhappily banked, says Chuck Harris, President at NetSpend. He’d prefer to think of it as a tool for the “self-banked” - those people who like and need the flexibility that stored value...

B2B Payments
New Deal Brings IT Services And Cloud-Based Travel Management Together
August 27, 2014

IT services firm Sonata Software announced earlier this week that it purchased a majority stake in cloud-based travel management company Rezopia Inc. With the move, Sonata hopes to strengthen its travel vertical by using Rezopia’s software-as-a service travel IT platform, according to a company statement. Get...

Alternative Finances
Square Cash Takes The Next (Mobile) Step
August 27, 2014

Square has upgraded its Square Cash P2P payment app with the ability to send payments via text messages, and raised the ante in its competition with PayPal-owned Venmo, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Alternative Finances
Citi’s Digital Wallet Debuts
August 27, 2014

Citi has launched its own digital wallet for online purchases, using MasterCard’s MasterPass system so customers won’t type in an unencrypted credit card number, the bank said in a press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

What Most ATM Cash Planning Models Miss
August 27, 2014

ATM cash planning requires a delicate balance of having enough cash on hand to satisfy consumers but not so much that banks can’t put extra cash to work. Models can help, says TSYS Deputy Director General for Moscow Andrei Povarov in a recent interview with...

How the Cool College Kids Will Pay On Campus
August 26, 2014

Mobile phones are a fixture on college campuses and now so are payments using nothing more than those mobile phone numbers on campus and in the stores that surround it. Bill Nyhan, CEO at PXT Payments, recently told PYMNTS how his strategy of creating ubiquity...

What the Payments Industry Can Learn From India
August 26, 2014

India is still a cash centric society with few credit cards and only a third of its population owning a debit product. Yet, Srinivas Nidugondi, Head of Mobile Financial Solution at Mahindra Comviva, says the rest of the world can learn a lot about payments...

News
Coin’s All-In-One-Card Troubles
August 25, 2014

Coin, the device that looks to stand as an electronic replacement for credit and debit cards, is coming to market.  It will just be arriving somewhat later than originally forecasted. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Karen Webster
Who’s On Your 2014 Fantasy Payments Team?
August 25, 2014

Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to September sure signals that summer is over  . If that isn’t enough, the signs of Fall are also in great abundance: kids are...