Jun 4, 2013 French coupon advertising platform Shopmium ended its Series B funding round with $5.6 million in capital, according to TechCrunch. The money came from investors including Accel Partners, ISAI and Ventech, which added to Shopmium’s undisclosed seed funding earnings. Shopmium’s CEO said the...
What leads an established payments powerhouse to reengineer an already popular platform? According to Julie Loeger, SVP of brand and acquisition at Discover, the answer is simple: listening to the consumer. PYMNTS.com spoke with Loeger to get a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Discover’s...
As part of a move to “strengthen issuer relationships,” Visa Offers announced a processing enhancement on May 13 that aims to make altering and redeeming discounts through the platform an easier, more effective experience for both merchants and their customers. “Visa has a long history...
Really and truly solving the B2B payments’ problem over the years has been a little bit like proving Fermat’s last theorem – lots and lots have tried and a few have even gotten pretty close. But no one has been able to enter the market...
On August 22, 2012, Discover and PayPal announced a partnership that positioned the two entities as real threats to the established payments landscape. Now, just eight months later, we’re starting to see the fruits of that partnership, as Discover’s offline PayPal operating rules officially came...
French payments terminal company Ingenico is aiming to grow its annual revenue to above $2.3 billion in 2016. Essential to this growth is mobile point of sale powerhouse ROAM. Just a few weeks ago Ingenico laid out plans during its Investor Day to accelerate its...
Welcome to PYMNTS.com’s 2013 CEO Series: a quick and concise glimpse into the minds of the leaders of the payments industry and how they view innovation, change and growth. We’ll ask each top exec the same six questions about the payments industry to gauge who...
Scott Goldthwaite was named new Senior Vice President of Operations at ROAM less than two weeks ago, on April 1, 2013. A man with experience at payments innovators such as Payment Planet, Hypercom, WAY Systems and other companies, Goldthwaite’s resume speaks for itself when it...
As CEO of group payments service WePay, Bill Clerico knows a thing or two about innovating to meet consumer needs. In fact, Clerico says that despite his experience in the field, every hour he spends with a customer lets him learn something new. Why is...
