Blurred Lines: Promotion and Payments
August 12, 2014

Suppose there was a way for a retailer to insert themselves into the consumer’s transaction stream, real time, and without disrupting the checkout process? Jingit CEO Joe Rogness recently sat down with PYMNTS to explain how they do this not only without “being creepy” but...

B2B Payments
The First Step In A Simple Transition To E-Payables
August 12, 2014

When it comes to digitizing accounts payable processes, Karla Friede’s advice to businesses is to first step back to see what solutions fit the problem. And that’s when Friede, CEO of NVoicePay, says that they discover that bank solutions just don’t cut it. Friede and...

Nearly One-Third Of Expense Fraud Committed By Executive Management
August 12, 2014

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) found that employees in executive management positions accounted for27 percent of expense reimbursement fraud cases. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Midwestern University Picks eProcurement Option
August 12, 2014

Michigan State University announced last week that it chose ESM Solutions for its eProcurement needs. According to an ESM press release, MSU wanted a more streamlined eProcurement process, and felt that the cloud-based spend management company was the best option. Get the Full Story Complete the...

UK Hopes To Double Size Of Public Sector Commissioning Academy
August 12, 2014

The UK government wants todouble the size of its public sector commissioning academy by 2016. According to Supply Management, the ultimate goal is to have 1,500 members after the next four years. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

International
26 Million Kenyan Mobile Subscribers Sent $12.7 Billion – In Six Months
August 12, 2014

Kenyan consumers transferred more than $12 billion using mobile money services in the first six months of 2014, according to a new report by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

News
The $14.5 Billion Question: Do Visa And MasterCard Control The U.S. Smart Card Business?
August 11, 2014

Do Visa and MasterCard have enough control over the U.S. payment card market that they can violate a smart card patent. A federal appeals court last week began hearing arguments in a case in which card vendor SmartMetric Inc. contends they do, and have. Get...

Loyalty & Rewards
Condé Nast’s Epicurious Makes Second Big iBeacon Push Of 2014
August 11, 2014

Condé Nast’s Epicurious is making its second big iBeacon push of 2014.  Swirl—the business behind Hudson’s and Lord and Taylor’s recent iBeacon upgrades—will now beam location aware notifications to those with the Epicurious app already installed on their phone via its already existing network of retailers’ beacons....

International
Alibaba Playing Hardball On Fighting Knockoffs
August 11, 2014

Major consumer brands have struggled for years to control the massive grey market, where the brand’s goods are sold without authorization—and where the items sold may be counterfeit items of much lesser quality. This problem is especially challenging in much of the Asian E-Commerce space—and...