PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Bubble Builders and Busters Tracker Dec 6
December 13, 2013

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PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Bubble Builders and Busters Tracker Dec 13
December 13, 2013

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How Social Motives Can Unlock Spending
December 13, 2013

St. Louis-based cafe chain Panera Bread turned more than a few heads when it revealed in 2010 that it would launch an unconventional non-profit restaurant chain called Panera Cares. These locations would do something unprecedented in the corporate world: allow consumers to set the price...

20131213-eCommerce Crowns, Twin Loops And The Feel-Good App Of The Season
December 13, 2013

Plenty of strange news out this week in payments and commerce, including two Loops vying for VC funding, Facebook handing over the eCommerce crown to Pinterest and a heartwarming story about a homeless coder. These stories and more in this week’s trends! Get the Full...

20131213-Introducing The What’s Next Power Play™ At The Innovation Project 2014
December 13, 2013

Calling all new product launches! Do you want your moment in the spotlight? Will March 2014 be the right time to tell the world about your new idea, product, solution or innovation? Well, if so, we have an opportunity for you to get in front...

Alternative Finances
9 Mobile Money Markets
December 13, 2013

As part of our 2013 12 Days of Christmas series, we thought it would be fun to assess the process of emerging economies from the standpoint of mobile. Our North Star is Bloomberg, who ranked its top 20 emerging markets earlier this year, evaluating GDP...

MasterCard Introduces Payroll Card Standards
December 13, 2013

MasterCard released new standards on December 13 designed to help employees deposit paycheck electronically onto payroll cards, a press release indicated. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Wells Fargo Joins Isis mWallet Pilot
December 13, 2013

Wells Fargo’s customers will be able to take part in the pilot test of the Isis mobile wallet, the company announced in a December 12 press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

eCommerce Crowns, Twin Loops And The Feel-Good App Of The Season
December 12, 2013

Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which companies grabbed the most headlines – for better or for worse – this week, and...