May 19, 2010
Innovator Series
Payments Processing: Simplified And CustomizedPayments processing is a messy and complicated business, but by bringing all of its aspects under one roof, Bluefin Payments is helping to simplify what’s becoming...
May 06, 2010
NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments...
May 06, 2010
Cards, Coupons, Cell Phones, Oh My.
There was a story earlier this week about the bigger role that “general purpose” payment cards are now playing in the store loyalty card space. The elevator story here is...
May 06, 2010
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire?
There’s a lot of speculation about the recent move by Target to abandon its Visa co-branded card in favor of its own private label store version. Some say that it...
May 06, 2010
The Morning After
PayPal’s Efforts to Capture Payments ShareThree announcements over the last week highlight PayPal’s moves to take a big share of the payments market. Will the Apple Fall Far From...
April 30, 2010
NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments...
April 30, 2010
NFC: Past, Present and Future
The announcement by the GSMA and its partners of another NFC demonstration pilot highlights how Near Field Communication is caught in the “trough of disillusionment.” Commerce innovators shouldn’t despair, the...
April 25, 2010
Loyalty 2.0
The big-if not the biggest-marketing buzzword. There is no shortage of articles and opinions on this topic. In fact, googling the term “loyalty programs” yields about 1.6 million hits; googling...
April 25, 2010
Loyalty, the Social Way
Social is to strategy what the internet was to commerce back in the early part of this century – a new way to reduce costs and increase revenue by improving...
Seventy-five percent of car buyers favor brands that offer rewards, with a similar percentage (74%) favoring digital payments. In the latest edition of the “Expanding Payments Choice Playbook Series,” a collaboration with Onbe, PYMNTS examines the critical role digital rewards and incentives now play in facilitating a true end-to-end digital car-buying experience.