What a difference a year makes, especially in payments. Innovation Project 2015’s “Innovation At The Intersections” theme was all about the direction that payments had come from, which way it was headed and the crossroads the payments industry had found itself at. Fast forward one...
What exactly is “Payments at the Edge?” Well, over the next two days, PYMNTS will be joined by those looking to chip away at that very question. It’s the question many players across the payments and commerce ecosystem are undertaking at this very moment. And,...
There’s no surefire way to approach innovation — especially in the fast-paced, ever-evolving world of FinTech. That means merging multiple visions, finding inspiration virtually anytime and everywhere. And that means shaking up the status quo. Or as John Best, President and CEO of Best innovation Group, mused...
At the intersection of payments and commerce in today’s digitally driven world, there’s an endless number of routes where technology and payments merge — including fashion. Or, as is the case of MasterCard’s latest collaboration with The New School’s Parsons School of Design, the global payments...
In an age where financial technology aims to reinvent the way that consumers interact with banks, it makes sense that some companies should consider it their goal to reinvent the way mid-sized banks compete with their larger brethren, chiefly through technology. Enter NYMBUS, a software-focused...
Being a digital payments player is about more than just powering payments; it’s about empowering global consumers/businesses. But is that really what Stripe’s latest product announcement at Mobile World Congress yesterday (Feb. 24) was designed to show? Or does it really show Stripe’s, well, real stripes? The announcement...
How does Visa think like a startup? For starters, they say, by having space where clients and payments innovators can collaborate to build the next generation of commerce applications with them. Vijay Sondhi, SVP of Innovation, takes PYMNTS inside OMC, Visa’s San Francisco lab, to...
Ever since news of the lackluster sales of the last iPhone came to light, rumors sprang up that Apple was hard at work on a new product release to re-energize the public and investors. As usual, those rumors have proven to be true. 9to5Mac reported...
MasterCard and Silicon Valley Bank have selected the next group of participants for its Commerce.Innovated. virtual accelerator class intended to give startups the boost needed to grow. These latest selections range from mobile lending to instant authentication and identity checks and will be part of the...
