With all due respect and apologies, a triple whammy was served up in Boston today: Tom Brady is leaving the New England Patriots, the coronavirus has shuttered bars on St. Patrick’s Day and an unseen contagion is in place. But while Brady won’t win any...
That there was a lot of action and motion in the payments and commerce ocean this week is not much of a surprise, as that describes pretty much every week that ends on a Saturday and starts on a Sunday. However, this week the theme...
If there were a theme in the big headlines this week in payments, financial services and commerce, it would have been movement. That theme was apparent in both sets of news reports out of China this week: with movement of both the best kind in...
The PYMNTS Christmas poem (with heavy assistance from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ring Out, Wild Bells”) Ring out, wild thoughts, to a decade new, Innovation shining bright. This decade’s dying in the night; Let it go, let new ways to pay through. Ring out the checks, whenever they’re sent, Slow and...
The year may be winding toward a close and slowing down, but this week the world of payments showed signs of neither as big players seemed to be racing down to the wire to get their big news out before the clock strikes 12 on...
Gerhard Oosthuizen, CTO of Entersekt, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. I remember a conference almost a year ago. Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) had started its major run; everyone was excited. In the panel discussions, the bitcoin proponents were talking about it...
Carleigh Jaques, SVP, global head of merchant digital products at Visa, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. For decades, the interaction at the point of sale was wholly focused on one thing — processing a transaction. It was an experience anchored...
Matt Redwood, head of self-service at Diebold Nixdorf, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. Self-checkout has been around for 15 years — we’re all accustomed to seeing SCO point-of-sale terminals at the grocery store. Self-service has woven its way into so...
Bruce Parker, founder and CEO of Modo, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. ’Twas December 2017, and all through the global payments space, APMs and traditional banks were in a neck-and-neck race. Fanatics were shouting the old ways were dead,...
