MPD CEO Karen Webster says that everything that you’ve heard over the last several years about how successful mobile payments are at the physical point of sale is wrong. Starting with how it’s taken off like a rocket ship in Europe and how the U.S....
From NFC contactless payments to emerging beacon technologies, the vibrant omnicommerce space is ripe for technological innovation. As Matt Ozvat, VP of Developer Integrations at Vantiv, pointed out in a discussion with MPD CEO Karen Webster, developers at the point of sale are taking advantage...
Never a dull moment at U.K. payments firm Worldpay. After a summer of courting by private equity and its various rivals — notably Germany’s Wirecard and France’s Ingenico — Worldpay looks like it instead might just be going again on its own (walking down the only...
Verifone and Aava said Tuesday (Sept. 1) morning that they are launching the first handheld mPOS system powered by Intel technology and geared toward enterprise users. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Sweden-based mobile payment firm iZettle is often compared to Square. And the comparison is certainly not entirely unwarranted, as both firms are known for essentially the same achievement: enabling small businesses and micro-merchants to accept card payments, albeit in two very different marketplaces with rather...
This week the University of Oklahoma will be a payments pioneer as it becomes the first university to accept Apple Pay across its campus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Small, mobile merchants want one and only one thing: a simple way to take their customer’s favorite payments methods. Flint CEO Greg Goldfarb describes how he thinks he's cracked the code for mobile merchants and their interest in becoming more integrated with Apple Pay and...
Amid a tech revolution, retailers can improve customer service, data security, and margins all at the same time, an ACI white paper finds.
A decade ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave birth to an intellectual debate with his declaration that globalization – driven by technology and the digitization of business and trade — had rendered the world effectively “flat.” Get the Full Story Complete the form...
