Judging by the breathy press reports yesterday of the new, sort of, kind of, maybe joint venture between mobile behemoths AT&T and Verizon (with T-Mobile in the mix too) MasterCard and Visa are sitting around conference tables today white-knuckle-gripping their blackberries and iPhones. Bloomberg first...
Alya Guseva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She has been studying Russia’s emerging market for credit cards for more than 10 years. She is the author of Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (Stanford 2008),...
In this paper, Marc Bourreau and Marianne Verdier study the development of mobile payments as an innovation in developed countries. In particular, we introduce five cooperation models that have emerged or could emerge between banks, mobile network operators, and payment systems, for the development of...
Using debit cards to make point-of-sale purchases is extremely popular among Canadians. Established nationwide over 15 years ago, in 1994, the Interac direct payment system is so popular today that only Swedes, on a per-capita basis, make more such transactions. Get the Full Story Complete...
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview economist, Philippe Bergevin joins David S. Evans to discuss what’s next in the Canada debit card market. Philippe weighs in on how the entrance of MasterCard and Visa and disrupted the debit card market in Canada and what’s next for...
In this exclusive video interview, David S. Evans sits down with two leading experts on Russian payment cards to discuss what the payments business looks like today and how it got there. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview, David Evans sits down with two industry veterans to discuss the evolution of mobile payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
In our first installment of Payments Around the World, industry expert David S. Evans chats with Upendra Namburi for a first hand look at payments in India. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
As Summer starts to heat up, we enter earnings season. Some of the big players in payments have made announcements and we wanted to revisit what these Captains of the Industry had to say earlier in the year. Get the Full Story Complete the form...