April 24, 2010
Five Burning Quesions on Loyalty: Loylogic’s Steve Landuyt

Steve Landuyt is the Executive Vice President for Loylogic, Inc, a Swiss company which specializes in global loyalty and reward solutions for the payment industry, airlines, hotels and gaming providers....

April 22, 2010
Exclusive Interview: Andrew Ching on Payment Rewards and Loyalty

In this exclusive NEXTcast interview PYMNTS.com sat down with Andrew Ching, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto. Andrew weighs in on loyalty and rewards programs and how...

April 22, 2010
Loyalty & Marketing

April 22, 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 22, 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...

April 20, 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...

April 20, 2010
The Security Conundrum – Part 1: The Puzzle

In recent weeks I have picked a number of conversation threads on the on-going difficulties of securing transactions, such as the recent PYMNTS.com posts of Mohammad Khan and Jack Jania...

April 19, 2010
How Loyalty Discounts Can Perversely Discourage Discounting: Comment

Assaf Eilat, Jith Jayaratne, Janusz Ordover, & Greg Shaffer, Apr 19, 2010 The academic literature on loyalty discounts and exclusive dealing demonstrates that the welfare effects of these practices are...

April 12, 2010
Plastic Cards

    About Dee Hock   Dee Ward Hock (born 1929) is the founder and former CEO of the VISA credit card association. In 1968 Hock convinced Bank of America...