April 28, 2010
Exclusive Interview with Amit Sethi and Sachin Khandelwal of the...
PYMNTS.com asked industry expert and author of Paying with Plastic, David S. Evans to profile industry thought leaders and executives to find out what’s next in the world of payments....
April 16, 2010
More Than Money
Published in 1888, Bellamy’s book about achieving a utopian society was a huge best seller in its time. “Perhaps you would like to see what our...
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...
February 25, 2010
Prepaid Cards: A Tool for Getting by or Getting Ahead?
Prepaid cards are useful for customers’ day-to-day money management needs, but are the cards helping them achieve larger financial goals? Meet Virginia, Ariel and Leo (the names used in...
January 22, 2010
5 Burning Questions: Monitise Americas’ Soren Bested
PYMNTS.com asked Soren Bested, Monitise Americas‘ Managing Director, to answer five burning questions on the mobile platform wars and its impact on the payments industry. Soren Bested has been with...
January 16, 2010
Cooperation Models for the Development of Mobile Payment Solutions
Introduction The technological advances in the field of near-field contactless communications (NFC) and the development of sophisticated mobile applications have enabled mobile phones to become a potential means of payment....
January 05, 2010
Cooperation Models for the Development of Mobile Payment Solutions
Introduction The technological advances in the field of near-field contactless communications (NFC) and the development of sophisticated mobile applications have enabled mobile phones to become a potential means of payment....
January 03, 2010
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #2 Mobile Payments
The Marriage of Mobile and Payments Make the World a Better Place The marriage of mobile phones and payments has improved the lives of millions of people in the poorest...
December 28, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #5 Innovation Driven...
The use of prepaid cards has exploded during the first decade of this century and they have enabled many types of payment innovation from whipping through transit lines to helping...
Individuals with mobile phones outnumber those with bank accounts in the most underbanked regions of the world, offering the telecom industry a prime opportunity to fulfill a vital role. In this month’s “Telecommunications Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with i2c, four telecom providers tell PYMNTS how the industry is ideally positioned to provide financial access to unbanked households.