San Francisco-based LendUp will announce today that is has signed two service agreements with global money transfer and payment services company, MoneyGram, according to a LendUp release. LendUp will enable real-time offline payments for loans using MoneyGram’s ExpressPayment Service at 39,000 agent locations in the...
Americans get 5 billion emails a day and 75 percent of them are viewed on mobile devices. @Pay has taken this 30 year old communications tool and turned it into a powerful point of sale. PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster caught-up with @Pay’s CEO John Killoran...
Home design e-tailer Fab.com is in talks to be acquired, according to comments its CEO made to Forbes.com. “We have had a lot of inbound interest in the valuable Fab brand and assets. We are currently evaluating such inquiries,” Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg said, according...
The Paym service seems to be taking off among British banking customers. More than a million users have signed on to use the service, which allows (U.K. equivalent) ACH transfers of funds between mobile numbers. Launched in April, Paym is a cooperative move between HSBC,...
Blackhawk Network is partnering with Barclays Bank to enable merchant gift cards as a choice on the Pingit mobile payments app. The two-year-old Pingit app connects Barclays’ customer account, which enables customers to transfer funds via mobile numbers. Pingit is also available for customers who...
American Express has given up its bid to wrest total control of the “Black Card” brand name from Netherland’s registered Israel-based coffee producer, which owns the Black Card coffee trademark. A court dismissed the case after AmEx withdrew its action. Israel’s Strauss Group, Strauss Coffee...
OpenTable reinvented the restaurant reservation dining scene 16 years ago and more recently introduced mobile payments into the mix. But is Apple next up to reinvent the dining experience for hungry people and restaurateurs? MPD CEO Karen Webster shares two separate but related data points...
If Twitter is trying to keep its imminent commerce plans confidential, it should probably clue in its mobile app developers, who have made visible a preference option for “payment and shipping” in its Android app. (It’s apparently not been yet made visible in the iOS...
Milk, blueberries, yogurt, Popchips, Comcast monthly bill? Yep. A growing roster of retailers now enable their customers to pay a variety of monthly bills at checkout. And, the benefits go well beyond customer convenience – increasing both foot traffic and impulse buys, especially for those...
