MasterCard announced today (June 21) the kickoff of the 2016 summer session of its Start Path Global program — a class offering support to the next generation of commerce and FinTech startups from around the world. The effort provides innovative early-stage startups with access to...
Silicon Valley has the banking industry in its crosshairs. Hardly a day, hardly even a nanosecond, goes by without a VC, entrepreneur, or tech media pundit claiming that some Internet-something-or-other is going to take out the stodgy financial services industry. It’s even gone mainstream: Lesley...
The first week of June began with probably the biggest sizzle-y story of all: the unveiling of the 12 new skills that 14 companies across payments taught Alexa. Companies as large as Visa, Discover, FIS, Fiserv, Vantiv and Western Union, and diverse and scrappy as...
If iZettle has learned anything since its mPOS solution hit the market five years ago, it’s that SMBs need more than just payment acceptance to grow their businesses. And grow they have. Jacob de Geer, iZettle CEO and co-founder, tells Karen Webster that their mPOS...
Innovation shouldn’t be just another item on the to-do list. Peter Read, president of Peoples Card Services, says that the true path to innovation is about solving real problems and making sure that that problem-solving focus never fades.
While the “official” start of summer — the one marked by the passing of the summer solstice — is still about a month away, the summer is getting its unofficial launch party this weekend in the United States with the celebration of Memorial Day. Summer used to...
You want to know what really sizzled this week? The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. We’ve even stopped complaining now that we skipped spring altogether and went right into summer – the sun is shining and everyone is smiling. The forecast...
Most wearables are consumer devices that keep tabs on steps climbed or emails or texts received. LibriSpark CEO Jeremy Feldman tells PYMNTS in this month’s Developer Tracker™ that the technology is now available to help merchants reinvent the POS – by wearing it. He’s not...
Meet Pepper, the 4 foot (sorta) humanoid figure that will take orders at Pizza Hut and even let the consumer pay for it. Science fiction? How about QSR reality. John Sheldon, SVP of Innovation at MasterCard Labs, tells Karen Webster how human-like robots could change...
